FL Once Had An Agency To (Kinda) Limit The Stupidest RE Developments . . .

[hatrack]

. . . but not any more, because Floriduh Republicans!

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Since 2010, NPR found, the area's population has rapidly swelled despite the increasing risk from powerful storms like Ian, which devastated some of those growing communities and narrowly missed others. Now, in the wake of the Category 4 hurricane, state and local leaders have promised to rebuild. Stronger building codes like the kind created after 1992's Hurricane Andrew will make the area more resilient to future storms, they say. But climate and planning experts warn that rebuilding along the crowded coast, following a decade of weakened rules governing development, is what helped create the disaster now unfolding.

Specifically, they point to Florida's decision in 2011 to abolish the state agency that managed risky development even as threats from climate change deepened. "The result is what we're looking at today," said Richard Grosso, a land use attorney who worked for the state in the 1980s helping implement the 1985 law that created the agency, Florida's Department of Community Affairs. "We put way too many people, way too much private and public investment dollars than we should have, in those vulnerable areas."

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Despite increasing warnings about rising sea levels and the risk to coastal development, the Republican-controlled state legislature led the charge a decade ago to do away with the agency governing growth. During his campaign for governor in 2010, Sen. Rick Scott called the state's growth management rules a jobs killer. At the time, he said he was not convinced that humans were warming the planet and driving climate change, and called for a "lean and limited government."

Scott was not available when NPR requested interviews over the last two weeks to talk about Hurricane Ian and weakened growth management laws. But when asked on CBS's Face the Nation Sunday if vulnerable communities should be rebuilt, Scott said they should. "They're beautiful places. So what you really have to do is you have to say, I'm going to build, but I'm going to do it safely," he said. "After this, we're going to learn that we're going to have to improve, are continuing to improve our building codes. And we also have to invest in issues such as sea level rise and things like that, flood mitigation programs."

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https://www.npr.org/2022/10/08/1127302954/shutting-an-agency-managing-sprawl-might-have-put-more-people-in-hurricane-ians-

[Genki Hikari]

1. FloriDUH is right

And the duh doesn't get more duh than BatBoy:

I'm going to do it safely

What safety standard can stand up to a Cat 4?

After this, we're going to learn that we're going to have to improve, are continuing to improve our building codes.

What building codes can stand up to a Cat 4 hurricane?

And we also have to invest in issues such as sea level rise and things like that, flood mitigation programs.

I can't believe I'm having to explain this to a US Senator as if he has the brains of a mentally challenged 2 y/o, but here's what he needs to hear:

You're at sea level, stupid. To get FL coastlines up high enough to resist flooding, you'd have to import an equivalent amount of dirt close to the size of the Sahara. You have to raise the land to 20 packed feet of dirt and who knows what else for at least ten miles inland. Then you have to hope it doesn't wash away despite all that. On top of all else, you need to build massive drainage canals through the entire state--somehow without destroying what little is left of the Everglades.

This idiot is too stupid to get that his state is f'd with this insanity of doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result.

[Mickju]

2. Excellent comment!

The stupidity is stunning.