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Highlands highlights new floodplain design guidelines; mayor details grants and projects
Summary
Kathleen Shaw presented a new 40+ page floodplain design guideline to help visualize elevated mixed‑use buildings on Bay Avenue; the mayor reported nearly $2 million in grants, upcoming drainage and park projects, and scheduled a Dec. 11 special meeting on property assessments.
Kathleen Shaw, the borough’s Community Rating System coordinator, presented a newly published floodplain design guideline during the Dec. 4 council meeting, describing it as a visual, technical guide to align the central business district Redevelopment Plan with Chapter 21 floodplain rules.
"This design guideline shows the public what a new mixed use building with event space underneath with permeable surface where there could be farmers markets ..." Shaw said, outlining examples and technical resources tied to FEMA guidance and work the borough adapted from other coastal cities. She said the document (about 40 pages) includes diagrams for wet and dry…
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