Private Profit and Public Safety as Outcomes of Local Land-Use Regulation

S A Bollens, E J Kaiser and R J Burby
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S A Bollens: Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA

Environment and Planning B, 1989, vol. 16, issue 1, 7-22

Abstract: Consistent with requirements of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), over 17000 local governments in the USA have enacted local floodplain-management programs. This paper is an analysis of whether and to what extent these local riverine regulatory policies decrease riverbank development and increase the use of protective site-design and construction measures. To address these questions, 106 developers and builders were surveyed in ten cities having floodplain policies of varying strengths. It is found that floodplain policy has a negligible effect on whether development does or does not occur in a floodplain. Such programs, however, do have significant effects on the extent to which structures built in the floodplain are protected from future flood damage.

Date: 1989
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DOI: 10.1068/b160007

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