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Historic board workshop reviews options for elevating flood-prone historic houses
Summary
Board received an educational presentation on flood risk to historic properties, technical constraints for raising houses, and how Secretary of the Interior guidance and FEMA rules can interact when rehabilitating historic structures in flood-prone areas.
St. Pete Beach95At the Oct. 2 meeting the Historic Preservation Board received an educational workshop on elevating residences in flood-prone areas and on preservation considerations when buildings must be raised.
"The risk of flooding has long been a major challenge for many historic properties and communities," Lynn Rosetti, the city's consulting contract planner, told the board in a presentation that reviewed NOAA flood-risk concepts, local storm-surge and king-tide exposure, and recent work to survey historic resources across St. Pete Beach.
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