Tag: flood plains
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Flood Plains are for Floods
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2021(Mar. 24, 2021) — Natural flood plains form where floods spread silt and mud in river valleys. Being flat, fertile, picturesque and usually supplied with surface and underground water, they attract farms, orchards and gardens. These are inevitably followed by roads, houses and businesses. Despite all the…
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Flood Plains are for Floods
WHAT IS “SENSIBLE”? by Viv Forbes, ©2019, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club (May 9, 2019) — Flood plains are created by floods. People should be free to build houses beside picturesque rivers but they must put up with the occasional flood. Community groups will always help those stricken by floods but taxpayers and other insurers…
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Obama’s Last-Ditch Regulations that Devastate Your Property Rights
“FORCED ACCEPTANCE” by John Anthony, Sustainable Freedom Lab, ©2017 (Mar. 16, 2017) — In the final days of Obama’s presidency two rules slid under the radar that drive explosive local planning and building costs, transfer control of certain grant-related planning to the government, and render local officials helpless to combat them. Federal agencies often enact…