More states are enacting building codes that require protectors on homes in coastal areas at risk of high winds in hurricanes.
It means not only replacing combustible roofs but enacting building codes, zoning reform, fire taxes and other infringements on private property.
And some California communities have already made considerable progress in enacting building and landscaping codes to reduce fire ignition potential in urban areas, encouraging and facilitating "defensible space", and developing emergency evacuation plans to limit risks to citizens and firefighters alike.
Davis and Arthur D. Frankel, chief of the mapping project for the Geological Survey, said the maps will be used by public and private agencies interested in estimating quake risks for the purpose of planning mitigation efforts, enacting building codes or, perhaps, setting insurance rates.
CM also enacts capacity building in urban areas; for instance, inhabitants in informal urban settlements have shared the process of upgrading slum and squatter neighborhoods with local governments by providing infrastructure, services, and improved housing in areas subject to climate change-related risks (Dodman and Satterthwaite 2008).
Since the new council took office in April , 1984 it has enacted three building moratoriums, prohibiting building on 220 of the 1,360 acres in the city.
After Hurricane Andrew hit south Florida in 1992, Miami-Dade and Broward Counties enacted stiff building codes.
In response, the village enacted a building moratorium in May, which gives officials time to develop new zoning laws that would control both residential and commercial development.
But as extraction slowed a few years ago at a 200-acre mine in the path of the community's westward growth, city officials wrote and enacted special building and zoning codes to permit the development of the cavernous space, 50 to 100 feet below the surface, as an industrial park.
