Protecting the city from storm surges is turns out to be a complicated and evolving mix of science, social justice, urban planning and finance.
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The design is moving ahead even as local officials, researchers and environmentalists raise questions about the project’s effectiveness in solving all the risks coastal cities face. “Part of the issue is whether or not a sea wall is the right place to start,” said Rob Young, director of Western Carolina University’s Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines.
Young and others say the cost-benefit model used by the corps, which focuses on property values, needs to be modified.“There are real economic justice and racial justice problems with the way they do their economic analysis,” he said. “What the corps is saying is that the only thing Americans value for their tax dollars is property values. I hope we value historical and cultural importance and maintaining community.
“I think we need to be very open and very clear [if] that’s the policy direction we want to go in,” Norfolk Mayor Kenneth Cooper Alexander said during a city council
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