The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity has just released “Post-Disaster Redevelopment Planning: Addressing Sea Level Rise During Long-Term Recovery.” This is the fifth and final piece of the Post-Disaster Redevelopment Planning Guidebook (PDF). The first four parts provided a planning process to guide post-disaster redevelopment activities that enhance community sustainability and ensure resilient redevelopment after any disaster.
The purpose of this final piece is to augment the best practices guidance related to coastal communities and also consider ways to address potential sea level rise adaptation during the long-term recovery process.
The report uses the example of Palm Beach County, Florida, which served as the pilot community, but is easily adaptable to other Florida communities and (with a little more work) to communities outside of the state.
You can download “Post-Disaster Redevelopment Planning: Addressing Sea Level Rise During Long-Term Recovery” here (PDF).