Helping Coastal Communities Prepare
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Mitigation are the things that you do in order to avoid problems well into the future. For example, making sure that you’ve cleared trees back a certain distance from your house if you’re in an area that’s prone to wildfires. (see the Firesmart pages for this kind of thing).
The past two weeks have been challenging for a number of people who lost power due to the set of storms that moved through the area. As NS Power resolves those issues for people, we should be looking at some Read More …
Continued from New Housing Catalogue – Part 1 of 2 There is a second aspect that needs to be looked at. While the catalogue may help speed the approval process, simple housing construction needs to take community-level risks into account. Read More …
There is no disagreement that the housing situation needs to be resolved. The current proposal of creating a housing catalogue needs to be treated carefully. We know that Building Codes often set higher standards of construction, but are often treated Read More …