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Stearns Weaver Miller Leading Evaluation of the Legal Issues Raised by Climate Change, Sea Level Rise, and Coastal Resilience
           
 
Shareholder Abby Corbett was recently interviewed on the country's most listened-to afternoon news radio program, NPR's national "All Things Considered." The interview and a related written article considered the effects of climate change and sea level rise on the City of Coral Gables and other local governments in Florida. The article detailed the legal, engineering, and political challenges that local governments and homeowners will face as sea levels rise in South Florida-including the risks of both action and inaction. It also described how Coral Gables engaged Abby and the Firm to survey how the law related to climate change and sea level rise could affect it and its efforts to become a more resilient community.

Another recent article noted that the South Florida real estate market is booming despite the challenges posed by sea level rise and questioned whether the market has adequately compensated for these risks. Both articles pointed to the lack of action by state and federal government as the impetus behind the small group of local government elected officials in Florida who are starting to try to tackle these issues. The New York Times has released an interactive mapping tool that shows what they are concerned about, depicting how major American cities including Miami, Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Jacksonville would fare under various sea level rise scenarios. Thus, sea level rise raises questions about how communities and real estate developments can be designed - and redesigned - to be more resilient to environmental change throughout coastal Florida.

Stearns Weaver Miller's statewide Land Development, Zoning & Environmental group represents private and government clients in these and other aspects of legal issues related to climate change and sea level rise. We can assist in risk evaluation for current conditions and sites; site selection and due diligence for projects to increase resiliency; public-private partnership projects to reduce environmental risks to communities; environmental and coastal permitting issues involving coastal armoring, beach renourishment, the coastal construction control line; land use issues including comprehensive plan and zoning code updates and revisions, site permitting, and rezoning; and property rights issues including eminent domain, takings, exactions, flooding, and access problems. We are continuing to monitor legal developments related to climate change and sea level rise. Please contact our team should you have any questions.

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Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson, P.A. has prepared this Alert to provide information on a current legal issue that we believe will be of interest to our readers.  The Alert does not provide legal advice to or create a lawyer-client relationship with any reader.  Readers should seek legal counsel before acting upon this Alert.