CHARM or the Community, Health and Resource Management tool provides instant feedback to community planning options. CHARM helps communities see how planning decisions made today will impact tomorrow’s community through a participatory mapping approach with local community data including storm surge, high tide and flood hazard areas. Learn more at https://www.communitycharm.org/

Workshop Materials:

• Agenda

Presentations:

• Introductions and Overview - Josh Gunn, Ph.D. - Associate Director, Community, Food and Environment Institute, Michigan State University Extension
• Decision-Centered, Scenario-Based Planning to Improve Local Coastal Management - Richard K. Norton, Ph.D., J.D. - Urban and Regional Planning Program & Program in the Environment, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan
• No Adverse Impact for Floodplain Management - How-To Guide for Planning - Terri Turner, AICP, CFM - Development Services Administrator, Current Planning & Zoning, Planning & Development Dept., City of Augusta, Georgia
• FEMA’s Community Rating System - Josh Gunn, Ph.D.
• Community, Health and Resource Management (CHARM) Overview - Steven Mikulencak, AICP – Planning Program Leader, Texas Community Watershed Partners, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension

No Adverse Impact Materials:

• NAI Toolkit
• Coastal NAI Handbook
• NAI How-To Guide for Infrastructure
• NAI How-To Guide for Mitigation
• NAI How-To Guide for Planning
• NAI How-To Guide for Education & Outreach
• NAI How-To Guide for Regulations and Development Standards
• NAI How-to Guide for Hazard Identification and Floodplain Mapping
• NAI How-to Guide for Emergency Services
• Please also see the NAI page at floods.org

NAI Legal Resources:

• Liability and NAI Floodplain Management
• NAI Legal Issues Fact Sheet
• Legal Issues In Upgrading Flood Maps To Reflect Climate Change, Other Changed Conditions
• A Comparative Look at Public Liability for Flood Hazard Mitigation
• Mitigating Misery: Land Use and Protection of Property Rights Before the Next Big Flood
• NAI Protecting the Property Rights of All: NAI Floodplain and Storm Water Management
• NAI and the Courts: Protecting the Property Rights of All
• Professional Liability for Construction in Flood Hazard Areas
• Property Rights and Community Liability: The Legal Framework for Managing Watershed Development
• What the Rapanos-Carabell Wetlands Decisions Mean to Floodplain and Stormwater Managers
• Liability for Water Control Structure Failure Due to Flooding
• Brief of Amicus Curiae Association of State Floodplain Managers, Inc. in Support of the State of New Jersey
• State of New Jersey Supreme Court Clerk's Syllabus Mansoldo v. State of New Jersey
• Courts Issue Good News for Floodplain Management