The Natural Hazards and Opportunity: Community Resilience and Habitat Connectivity project aims to help communities understand and fully leverage the potential ecological and social value of properties acquired under federal hazard mitigation and other programs that fund voluntary acquisitions of flood prone properties. With guidance from the project’s Advisory Committee, the Environmental Law Institute and the University of North Carolina Institute for the Environment have identified a number of representative communities across four states and in various regions, where the project will work on the local level to develop comprehensive maps of acquired properties and examine the habitat and flood mitigation benefits of acquired properties.
Case Studies
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Population: 24,720 No. Homes Acquired: 240 Current Use: parks, trails, restored habitat |
Population: 8,601 No. Homes Acquired:507 Current Use: parks, trails, athletic fields, greenways, etc. |
Population: 5,383 No. Homes Acquired: 131 Current Use: restored habitat, detention ponds, community garden |
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Population: 38,065 No. Homes Acquired: 264 Current Use: habitat restoration & connectivity, recreation |
Population: 1,223 No. Homes Acquired: 45 Current Use: leased to community members, gardens |
Population: 22,000 No. Homes Acquired: 1,000 Current Use: vacant property, dog park, skeet range, etc. |
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Population: 60,000 No. Homes Acquired: 446 Current Use: trails, community forest, athletic facilities, dog park, barbeque park |
Population: 15,000 No. Homes Acquired: 87 Current Use: open space, (proposed use: riverwalk and recreational amenities) |
Population: 42,704 No. Homes Acquired: 180 Current Use: unmanaged vacant property |
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Population: 55,000 No. Homes Acquired: 133 total in Township Current Use: vacant property |
Population: 83,686 No. Homes Acquired: 107 since 1995 Current Use: vacant property |
Population: 166,426 No. Homes Acquired: 103 Current Use: vacant property |
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Population: 41,019 No. Homes Acquired: 62 Current Use: forested floodplain, little to no management |
