Glossary
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Advisory Flood Map said property owners to repair or rebuild structures to newly determined advisory coastal flood elevations.
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Beachfront Management Plan addresses the area of the local community defined as the beach and dune system. Although aspects of the plan may discuss activities associated with upland areas, the management strategies outline in the plan should address the impacts that these activities have on the beach and dune system.
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Build-out Analysis is used to estimate and describe the amount and the location of future development that may be allowed to occur within a specified area or a given community under current development regulations.
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Cluster Development is a development arrangement in which all buildings allowable on a site are concentrated on a portion of the site, leaving the remainder of the site undeveloped.
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Coastal Hazard is the occurrence of a phenomenon (e.g. a tropical storm), which has the potential for causing damage to, or loss of, natural ecosystems, buildings, and infrastructure.
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Conservation Overlay Districts is a zoning tool used to preserve, revitalize, protect, and enhance significant older areas within a community beyond what is specified in the standard code. The conservation overlay regulations are applied in addition to standard zoning regulations and will usually take precedence.
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Continuity of Operations Plan details the how essential functions of an agency will be handled during any emergency or situation that may disrupt normal operations, leaving office facilities damaged or inaccessible.
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Freeboard is the height above the defined flood level (DFL) as determined by the authority having jurisdiction, typically used to compensate for effects such as wave action.
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Hazard Mitigation is defined as taking sustained actions to reduce or eliminate the long-term risks to people and property from hazards.
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Hazard Vulnerability includes the societal, structural, and environmental systems that are susceptible to the negative impacts of natural hazards.
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Hazards Disclosure Policy requires that sellers of real property and their agents provide prospective buyers with a "Natural Hazard Disclosure Statement" when the property being sold lies within one or more mapped hazard areas.
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High Hazard Area is an area of special flood hazard which is subject to high velocity waters from tidal surge or hurricane wave wash. It consists of areas designated as Zone V, VE, or Zones V1-30 on the Flood Insurance Rate Map.
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Impact Fees are charges on new development to pay for the construction or expansion of off-site capital improvements that are necessitated by and benefit the new development.
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Natural Hazards is a threat of a naturally occurring event that will have a negative effect on people or the environment.
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NJ's register Ready Program is a free, voluntary and confidential web-based program designed to identify the needs of people who may find it difficult to get to safety in the event of an emergency. People with access and functional needs (or caregivers on their behalf) are encouraged to register electronically, if possible, by accessing www.registerready.nj.gov. Alternatively, they can call New Jersey's toll-free 2-1-1 telephone service. This service will register people, offer free translation, and provide TTY services for the hearing-impaired.
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Overwash is the flow of water and sediment over the crest of the beach that does not directly return to the water body (such as ocean, sea, bay or lake; hereafter, ocean) where it originated after water level fluctuations return to normal.
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Purchase of Development Rights is the acquisition of property development rights through voluntary sale by the landowner to a government agency or land trust. The government agency or land trust acquiring development rights typically restricts future uses of the land to farming or open space.
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Resilience is the capacity of a system, community, or society potentially exposed to hazards to adapt to stress and change, by resisting or changing, in order to reach and maintain an acceptable level of functioning and structure.
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Risk Assessment is the determination of quantitative or qualitative value of risk related to a concrete situation and a recognized threat (also called hazard).
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Shoreline Management Plan allows you to designate what levels of development and/or shoreline stabilization would be appropriate given the characteristic of each shoreline segment, e.g. high-risk erosion area, valuable sand source, ecologically significant habitat, moderately developed shorefront, highly developed shorefront, etc. They can be their own stand-alone management plan or be a component of a broader management plan, such as a Special Area Management Plan, local coastal plan, land use plan, or other regional plan.
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Shoreline Stabilization is the use of structures, vegetation, or land-management practices to provide protection of a shoreline from future or existing erosion.
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Special Area Management Plan provides for increased specificity in protecting significant natural resources, reasonable coastal-dependent economic growth, improved protection of life and property in hazardous areas, including those areas likely to be affected by land subsidence, sea level rise and improved predictability in governmental decision making.
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Storm Surge A rise above normal water level on the open coast due only to the action of wind stress on the water surface; includes the rise in level due to atmospheric pressure reduction as well as that due to wind stress.
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Transfer of Development Rights seeks to preserve landowners' asset value by moving the right to build a house from a location where development is prohibited (e.g., for environmental reasons) to a location where development is encouraged.
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