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Committee backs bill letting towns add flood-resilience planning to master plans
Summary
The Committee voted 18-0 to recommend HB 14-68, which would allow municipalities to embed flood-resilience planning in master plans, use planning grants for mitigation planning and create a local investment fund for resilience improvements. Sponsor Representative Suzanne Vale said the change is an optional planning tool, not a mandate.
Representative Suzanne Vale introduced HB 14-68, telling the Municipal & County Government Committee the bill would authorize municipalities to include flood-resilience planning in their master plans and make planning grants and technical resources more available to towns that choose to adopt such plans. "The bill helps municipalities to address the future in their greatest areas of risk," Vale said in introducing a replace-all amendment that she said keeps the proposal a local option.
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