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42 Colum. J. Envtl. L. 1 (2016-2017)
Emerging Legal and Institutional Responses to Sea-Level Rise in Florida and beyond

handle is hein.journals/cjel42 and id is 5 raw text is: Emerging Legal and Institutional Responses to Sea-Level Rise in Florida and Beyond David L. Markell* I. Introduction ........................... ................ 2 II. Adaptation Action Areas-Empowering Local Govern- ments to Consider Sea-Level Rise in Comprehensive Plans (2011) ........................................... 6 A. Overview........................................6 1. Comprehensive Planning in Florida ..................6 2. Adaptation Action Areas...........................8 B. Implementation to Date.............................9 1. Guidance......................................9 2. Early Efforts to Designate AAAs................15 III. SB 1094 (2015): Peril of Flood.......................18 A. Timing.........................................19 B. Inevitability of Local Government Review. .............20 C. Relevant and Appropriate Data...............23 D. Relevant Time Frame for Assessing Risk ..... .......25 E. The Content of Local Plans...................26 F. State Review......................................... 29 I.. The Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact. 31 A. Origins.......................................... 32 SDavid L. Markell, Steven M. Goldstein Professor, Florida State University College of Law. Several individuals provided very helpful insights in connection with this Article, including Vicki Arroyo, Janet Bowman, Michael Burger, Ana Bingham, William H. Butler, Barbara Cosens, Ray Eubanks, Michael Gerrard, Nancy Gassman, Jessica Grannis, Gillian Metzger, David L. Powell, Sean Allen Reiss, J.B. Ruhl, Erin Ryan, Thomas Ruppert, Hannah Wiseman, and Katrina Wyman. Stephanie Schwarz (FSU Law 2016) and Lauren Thompson (FSU Law 2017), as well as Barbara Kaplan and Katie Miller, Florida State University College of Law Research Center, provided very helpful research assistance. David L. Powell deserves special thanks for reviewing with me the nuances of Florida land use law. The Article benefited greatly from opportunities to discuss the issues covered in the Article during a workshop at Columbia Law School in the fall of 2015, while I served as the David Sive Visiting Scholar with Columbia's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, and during a visit with Vicki Arroyo, Jessica Grannis, and others at the Georgetown Climate Center. 1

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