Gaining Ground Information Database


Welcome to Gaining Ground Information Database
Posted Oct 19 by sptadmin
A research library intended to be Ground Control for practical and scholarly explorations of innovative land use laws, regulations, and practices. Gaining Ground Information Database is a project of the Land Use Law Center's Joint Program of Land Use Studies through which it conducts programs outside New York State in conjunction with institutional partners such as university departments, nongovernmental organizations, and state and federal agencies.

NYC DEP Climate Change Program: Assessment and Action Plan

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New York city has taken significant steps to address the threat of sea level rise around the metropolitan region. There is a city strategic planning process for climate change adaptation, including a...

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Comprehensive Plan – Environmental Element

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The City of Bainbridge Island has explicitly addressed the potential for sea level rise in the Environmental Element of its comprehensive plan. Adopted in 2004, the plan recognizes that Bainbridge Is...

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Climate Change Advisory Task Force, Science and Technology Committee Statement

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In July 2006, the Miami-Dade County Board of Commissioners passed an ordinance creating the Miami Dade Climate Change Advisory Task Force to provide technical assistance and advice to the Board of Cou...

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Chapter 152: Rebuilding and Reconstruction; Damaging Storms

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The Town of Duck, on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, is a coastal community that has adapted local regulations implementing the State’s Coastal Areas Management Act of 1974. The Act encourages cooperat...

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Section 3.085: Beach and Dune Overlay Zone

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Tillamook County, Oregon is highly vulnerable to ongoing coastal erosion, landslides, and sand inundation of permitted structures in the fore-dune areas of the coast. The county code incorporates a B...

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