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<br /> <br /> <br />Bu)'out and relocate vulnerable homes and businesses, Buyout of houses and businesses from floodplains <br />will ensure that slructures located in the most hazardous flood zones, especially structures that have been <br />repetitively damaged, are given first priority for buyout. A buyout program must acquire all adjacent <br />structures to prevent some structures from remaining in unsafe locations. Relocation plans will prmide a <br />supply of housing and businesses in safe locations adequate to meet the needs of relocated households and <br />communities. <br /> <br />Relocate and prohibit unsqfe land use activities, Unsafe land use activities will be relocated and prohib- <br />ited from high hazard floodplain to reduce pollution of floodwaters by hazardous materials, Unsafe land uses <br />include structures or facillties that produce, use, or slore highly volatile, flammable, explosive, toxic, and/or <br />water. reactive materials. This includes new or rebuilt animal waste lagoons, animal production facillties, <br />sanitary landfills, hazardous waste storage facilities, septic systems, junkyards, and package waste treatment <br />plants, These are activities thal can cause great huntan and emironmental damage. <br /> <br />Maintain and restore the natural mitigation jilllctions of floodplains, Activities that reduce floodwater <br />storage capacity will be prohibited or removed from the floodplains to reduce the severity of future flooding, <br />Such activities include stream channellzalion, drainage and ditching of wetlands, and filling of floodplains, <br />t'unding will be soughl to acquire and dedicate to publlc or open space those critical wetlands that provide <br />floodwater storage, as well as other values to communities, including filters of polluted water, wildlife <br />habitats, groundwater recharge, and recreation, <br /> <br />HAZARD MITIGATION PLANNING INITIATIVE (HMPI): <br />LINKING MITIGATION AND SUSTAINABILITY <br /> <br />Since Hurricane FrJl1 in 1996, the state of North Carollna, in pannership with other state agencies and FE~H, <br />has channeled over $110 million into Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) projects that are designed <br />to minimize future losses of llves and propeny due to disasters,l Over $80 million alone was used for in- <br />place elevations and acquisition/relocation or "buyouts" of flood. prone propenies. The recovery from <br />Hurricane Floyd will add significantly more resources to the implementation of hazard mitigation programs <br /> <br />Figure 1.1 <br />This park in <br />loulsburg, /lie - <br />flooded during <br />Hurrict/ne F/oyd <br />(see wt/ter /Ine <br />on/efl) - was <br />once occuPied <br />hy housing <br /> <br />7 <br />