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Staff details buyouts, elevation projects and deed restrictions under hazard-mitigation program
Summary
The planning department outlined hazard-mitigation grant activities — buyouts, elevation and demolition/rebuild — and said buyout properties are deed-restricted and typically held by the county and converted to green space or passive recreation.
Buncombe County planning staff said the hazard mitigation grant program is focused on three primary activities after Helene: elevation projects, buyouts and demolish-and-rebuild to new standards. The presenter told the board that, under the state's implementation model, the state manages transactions and deed restrictions are applied to bought-out properties.
"When you buy out a property owner, it comes offline. So it gets deed restricted. It remains as green space," the presenter said. Staff highlighted that deed-restricted parcels are typically seeded and allowed to reforest or be used as passive recreation, and they noted some opportunities to use combined parcels for compensatory storage or small-scale storage features.
