Coastal flood resilience design guidelines

The Coastal Flood Resilience Design Guidelines serve as a reference for residents, business owners and developers to translate flood resiliency strategies into best practices. The Guidelines include:

• Resilience toolkit to address building form, building envelope and site access
• Description and supporting information on technical and cost considerations, insurance factors and sustainable design co-benefits
• Guidance on urban design, accessibility and public realm matters related to changes in elevation between a site and surrounding infrastructure
• Measures to manage additional climate hazards 
• Case studies that apply resilience strategies from the toolkit to representative building types in the future flood zone 

The Guidelines will also be used to administer a future Coastal Flood Resilience Zoning Overlay District.  Recommendations for the Zoning Overlay District have been developed and are currently under internal review.