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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the flooding experienced by these properties was exacerbated by new development that was approved after they were constructed, then I can't see how the locality can not be compelled to purchase them. [/quote]

Why should it be on the locality and not the developer?[/quote]

The locality approved the developer's project without taking into account stormwater management. [/quote]

How is that possible though? They have laws/regulations about this. Did the project not comply?[/quote]

You hire a firm to do an environmental study. Since the firm is for profit they are going to find whatever you ask them to find. Unfortunately, purely objective analysis is difficult with something this complicated as well. However there's also idiots as well. There is a developer that wants to build in a flood plain down here in Fairfax county. It's currently zoned industrial, he wants to rezone as residential and dump six or so feet of soil to get up out the flood plain and build townhouses.

Sure, this sounds like a good idea. Is this sustainable? Constant erosion seems like a problem. And 6' is good enough for now. What about 20 years from now?[/quote]

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