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Buyouts as resiliency planning in New York City afterHurricane Sandy
by Sonja K Boet-Whitaker
Institution: | MIT |
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Year: | 2017 |
Keywords: | n-us-ny; Urban Studies and Planning. |
Posted: | 02/01/2018 |
Record ID: | 2190640 |
Full text PDF: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111375 |
Land buyout programs may be used to significantlyimprove climate resilience by creating a protective ecologicalbuffer area to protect land at high risk of flooding. This thesisassesses the success of the New York State land buyout on the EastShore of Staten Island in achieving this resilient outcome. The NewYork State buyout program was created after Hurricane Sandy inOctober 2012 in response to pressure from landowners who had beenflooded in the storm. New York City declined to participate in abuyout in response to Sandy but offered to acquire storm-damagedhomes in other areas where the New York State buyout was notoffered. Through the New York City program, acquired propertieswould be resold to private entities at auction. In contrast, theNew York State program, which purchased 37 acres of land within the100-year floodplain, was legally bound to hold the propertiesbought through their program as open space in perpetuity. The statewas able to promise former residents that their land would become abuffer for inland areas, increasing resilience along thisvulnerable coastline. I analyze the success of the state program inachieving this goal by assessing participation and attrition rateswithin designated buyout areas, as well as reasons for attrition. Ifind that the lack of coordinated goals and agreed-upon toolsprevented New York Rising from successfully achieving the highestmeasure of resilience: creating a coastal buffer area to protectresidents from sea level rise and future flooding.Advisors/Committee Members: Lawrence Susskind (advisor).
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