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Coastal Protection Strategies for Sustainable Future Development

Explore effective ways to mitigate coastal risks by implementing regulations, incentives, and zoning policies. Encourage relocation inland, preserve coastal areas, and discourage shoreline development to safeguard against floods and storms.

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Coastal Protection Strategies for Sustainable Future Development

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  1. 13 Ways to Leave the Coast

  2. Raise premiums or refuse to insure in areas that repeatedly flood/are damaged by storms

  3. Raise property taxes in coastal areas

  4. Education campaigns, PSAs, advertising that discourage movement to the coast or encourage movement away from the coast

  5. Offer incentives to relocate inland, such as jobs, schools, reduced property taxes

  6. Designate the area as a preserve/reserve making it illegal to build

  7. • Impose stricter penalties for infringements of regulations designed to protect the coastline

  8. Zone to restrict building in coastal areas, limit distance to coast

  9. Designate the beach as public property

  10. Remove or ban human structures designed to stabilize shoreline (seawalls, bulkheads)

  11. • Ban the practice of beach nourishment

  12. • Pass rolling easements in which property owners agree to abandon buildings when their properties become flooded

  13. • Impose a tax to support beach-area protection •

  14. Prevent the building of infrastructure/services (roads, power lines, water lines) that service coastal areas

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