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University of Delaware researcher briefs Sussex County on new law requiring climate resiliency in comp plans
Summary
Philip Barnes of the University of Delaware Institute for Public Administration summarized SB237, a 2024 General Assembly law that will require county comprehensive plans to consider climate resiliency and urged local feedback ahead of state guidance; council members raised questions about maps, implementation and state guidance timing.
A University of Delaware Institute for Public Administration researcher told Sussex County Council members on July 29 that the General Assembly passed SB237 last year to require new comprehensive plan content addressing climate change and community resiliency, and that local governments should give feedback before state agencies issue implementing guidance.
Philip Barnes described SB237 as amending the code to require that a future land use plan "must reflect strategies…
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