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Model Floodplain Ordinance: Guidance and Draft Language for Campground Operations
Who it’s for: Local jurisdictions, floodplain administrators, and legal counsel responsible for floodplain regulations.
What it is: Draft ordinance language that jurisdictions can adapt to require Emergency Action Plans (EAPs) for camps, campgrounds, and RV parks operating in flood-prone areas. It addresses common gaps in existing floodplain ordinances — including missing definitions, permitting requirements, floodway restrictions, and minimum standards for what a compliant EAP must include.
How to use it: Review the model language with your jurisdiction’s legal counsel and floodplain administrator, and adapt it to fit your local ordinance structure and state law. This resource works hand-in-hand with the EAP guide: while the guide helps camp owners build a plan, this ordinance language helps ensure that having one isn’t optional.
This resource was developed by the Association of State Floodplain Managers.
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Model Floodplain Ordinance: Guidance and Draft Language for Campground Operations
Who it’s for: Local jurisdictions, floodplain administrators, and legal counsel responsible for floodplain regulations.
What it is: Draft ordinance language that jurisdictions can adapt to require Emergency Action Plans (EAPs) for camps, campgrounds, and RV parks operating in flood-prone areas. It addresses common gaps in existing floodplain ordinances — including missing definitions, permitting requirements, floodway restrictions, and minimum standards for what a compliant EAP must include.
How to use it: Review the model language with your jurisdiction’s legal counsel and floodplain administrator, and adapt it to fit your local ordinance structure and state law. This resource works hand-in-hand with the EAP guide: while the guide helps camp owners build a plan, this ordinance language helps ensure that having one isn’t optional.
This resource was developed by the Association of State Floodplain Managers.
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FEMA National Resilience Guidance: A Collaborative Approach to Building Resilience
FEMA’s National Resilience Guidance document is intended to help all individuals, communities, and organizations understand our nation’s vision for resilience, the key principles that must be applied to strengthen resilience, and the players and systems that contribute to resilience. It also outlines how to strengthen resilience by organizing and engaging people, incorporating resilience concepts into planning efforts, creating change through policies, prioritizing projects and programs, financing resilience efforts, and measuring and evaluating resilience. Finally, the NRG includes a Resilience Maturity Model that illustrates stages in the evolution of a community’s approach to resilience.
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FEMA National Resilience Guidance: A Collaborative Approach to Building Resilience
FEMA’s National Resilience Guidance document is intended to help all individuals, communities, and organizations understand our nation’s vision for resilience, the key principles that must be applied to strengthen resilience, and the players and systems that contribute to resilience. It also outlines how to strengthen resilience by organizing and engaging people, incorporating resilience concepts into planning efforts, creating change through policies, prioritizing projects and programs, financing resilience efforts, and measuring and evaluating resilience. Finally, the NRG includes a Resilience Maturity Model that illustrates stages in the evolution of a community’s approach to resilience.
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Zoning Strategies to Reduce Pollution of Inland Waters and Resultant Hypoxia of Long Island Sound
WEST COG developed this riparian zoning publication that is primarily focused on water quality, but also is highly relevant to climate mitigation.
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Zoning Strategies to Reduce Pollution of Inland Waters and Resultant Hypoxia of Long Island Sound
WEST COG developed this riparian zoning publication that is primarily focused on water quality, but also is highly relevant to climate mitigation.