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The purposes of floodplain zoning are to protect human life, health and to minimize property damages and economic losses (Zoning Board Handbook, Chapter 22<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Know Your\u00a0Flood Risk: Homeo\u200b\u200b\u200bwners, Renters or Business Owners<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) guide to help people understand and navigate flood risk and provide the needed resources and information to homeowners, renters, and business owners. View the website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u200b<\/a>Local Government Officials \u2013 Flooplain Management Reso\u200b\u200burces\u200b<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u200bA FEMA publicaton of resources for local community officials who play a critical role in making their communities safer and more resistant to disaster. View the resources\u200b<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Online training in Watershed M\u200banagment<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u200bThe Online Training in Watershed Management by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is a broad introduction to watershed management providing useful information to local, state, and tribal watershed management efforts.\u00a0\u00a0View the tra\u200bin\u200bing program<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flood Resilience Scorecard<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Flood Resilience Scorecard is a comprehensive, whole community-approach focused tool that can be used to evaluate flood vulnerability through three different lenses: environmental, institutional and social. View the Flood Resilience Scorecard<\/a>.\u200b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The purposes of floodplain zoning are to protect human life, health and to minimize property damages and economic losses (Zoning Board Handbook, Chapter 22). Know Your\u00a0Flood Risk: Homeo\u200b\u200b\u200bwners, Renters or Business Owners A Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) guide to help people understand and navigate flood risk and provide the needed resources and information to homeowners, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"parent":409,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-645","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/center-for-land-use-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/center-for-land-use-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/center-for-land-use-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/center-for-land-use-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/center-for-land-use-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/center-for-land-use-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/center-for-land-use-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/645\/revisions\/1040"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/center-for-land-use-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/center-for-land-use-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}