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August 31, 2011
SGA on Hazard Mitigation Post Irene
From the Smart Growth America website, news about an ironically timely meeting:
Can smart growth help communities avoid the catastrophic impacts of flooding? The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) brought together designers, land use planners, engineers and policy wonks at NOAA’s Silver Spring headquarters last week to examine this question, and to find commonalities and tensions between hazard mitigation techniques and smart growth principles.
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August 31, 2011 in Community Design, Conferences, Federal Government, Planning, Smart Growth | Permalink
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