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 COURIER L 4     IFE, DECEMBER 4-10, 2020 
 BY JESSICA PARKS 
 City Planning honchos are  
 proposing a suite of new zoning  
 measures  in  southern  Brooklyn’s  
 coastal neighborhoods,  
 which could help property  
 owners protect their homes in  
 fl ood-prone areas, while curbing  
 the infl ux of newcomers to  
 the low-lying zones. 
 The “Zoning for Coastal  
 Flood Resiliency” plan aims  
 “to  help  people  living  and  
 working  in  the  fl oodplain  to  
 reduce  damage  from  future  
 coastal  fl ood events, to prepare  
 to be resilient in the long  
 term and potentially help save  
 on fl ood insurance costs,” said  
 Catie Ferrara Iannitto, a resiliency  
 planner at the Department  
 of City Planning. 
 If approved, the new measures  
 would ease building  
 height  limits  when  rising  
 above the fl oodplain  or  when  
 retrofi tting  non-compliant  
 homes, while providing incentives  
 to property owners  
 to fl ood-proof ground fl oor  
 spaces. 
 “We want to expand the relief  
 so that homeowners are  
 not as frequently faced with  
 the challenge of ‘should I lose  
 livable space in order to make  
 my  home  resilient?’”  Ferrara  
 Iannitto said.  
 The proposal would cement  
 and expand on temporary  
 regulations implemented in  
 2013 after Superstorm Sandy,  
 which sought to address onerous  
 red tape that prevented  
 property owners from improving  
 a structure’s resiliency.  
 “The proposal now is to  
 make  many  of  those  provisions  
 that are in place now  
 permanent,” the DCP rep said.  
 “But  also  to  expand  them  so  
 that  communities  have  even  
 BY ROSE ADAMS 
 Miles of low-lying neighborhoods  
 along  Brooklyn’s  
 coast will suffer annual fl oods  
 by  2050  because  of  rising  sea  
 levels, scientists predict in a  
 new interactive map. 
 Stretches of Coney Island,  
 Brighton Beach, Gravesend,  
 Gowanus, Red Hook, Marine  
 Park, Canarsie, and all of  
 northern Brooklyn’s coastline  
 will be fl ooded at least once a  
 year as storm surges and hurricanes  
 become more frequent  
 because  of  global  warming,  
 the map shows.  
 The map — which was released  
 by Climate Central on  
 Dec. 1 as part of a study published  
 in the science journal  
 Environmental  Research  Letters  
 —  allows users  to  adjust  
 the year, the amount of luck,  
 and pessimism of the source  
 material to view a range of  
 sea level predictions from  
 2030 to 2100.  
 Some of the worst fl ooding  
 is projected to take place in  
 Greenpoint along McGuiness  
 Boulevard and on Greenpoint  
 Avenue down to Newel Street,  
 as well as on the streets within  
 one block of the waterfront.  
 East  Williamsburg’s  waterfront  
 around the edge of Newtown  
 Creek will also be badly  
 hit, as will the Brooklyn Navy  
 Yard and the blocks along the  
 Gowanus Canal, according to  
 the study. 
 In  southern  Brooklyn,  
 Coney Island and Brighton  
 Beach will see the most fl ooding  
 on  Neptune  Avenue  between  
 W. 31st and W. 19th  
 streets  and  on  Shore  Boulevard  
 between West  End  Avenue  
 and Oxford Street. 
 Water will also consume  
 the  edges  of  Floyd  Bennett  
 Field, the southern-most  
 points  of  Bergen  Beach,  and  
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