Council adopts Natural Infrastructure Resilience Plan into comprehensive plan
The council adopted a Natural Infrastructure Resilience Plan into the Hampton Community Plan to guide use of green and constructed natural infrastructure (bioswales, living shorelines) to reduce stormwater flooding and inform future code and capital projects.
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The council voted to adopt the Natural Infrastructure Resilience Plan by amending the comprehensive plan (item 24-0414). Olivia Askew, the city's interim resilience officer, described the plan's three vision areas — land, water and people — and said it identifies strategies to protect marshes and wetlands and to use constructed green infrastructure like bioswales and stormwater facilities to reduce neighborhood flooding.
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