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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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