Flood Mitigation Guide: Maryland's Historic Buildings

Hawkins, Dominique; Preservation Design Partnership, LLC

From How to Use This Guide: "This Guide is a 'road map' to help local governments and preservation advocates protect historic properties in their communities from flooding. While it addresses specific strategies such as floodproofing and elevating buildings that may be useful for property owners, the Guide focuses on what communities can do before, during, and after a flood to ensure that historic preservation is considered within the ongoing process of emergency management. To that end, the Guide provides a primer on issues such as flooding, floodplain management, and the emergency management cycle, and each section of the Guide illustrates ways to incorporate and address the protection of historic buildings within the existing regulatory framework. The Guide does not prescribe specific treatments, but rather suggests and analyzes options for decision-making. Although geared primarily toward local preservation planners, the Guide should benefit anyone attempting to meet the combined goals of historic preservation and emergency management, including state and local planners, floodplain managers, emergency managers, historic preservation consultants, preservation advocates, and public officials. The Maryland Historical Trust (MHT) will use the Guide to inform its own programs, including project review, local government assistance, and incentives." Project funding was provided in part by a Hurricane Sandy Emergency Supplemental Historic Preservation Fund grant to the Maryland Department of Planning (P14AP00002) and administered by the State, Tribal, Local, Plans & Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

Flood Mitigation Guide: Maryland's Historic Buildings

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