Year: 2018
Project(s):
Relevance
Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant promotes community resilience by addressing stormwater runoff to improve water quality, to reduce the economic harm caused by flooding, to improve the environment by adding green infrastructure and to improve cities’ Community Rating System scores. The City of Oxford, Mississippi, requested a review of its draft stormwater ordinance to improve its resilience to flooding impacts.
Response
The Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Legal Program analyzed the City of Oxford’s draft stormwater ordinances to identify provisions consistent with its objectives to reduce runoff. Sea Grant compared the Oxford draft ordinances to ordinances from similarly situated Community Rating System communities to identify language supporting green infrastructure techniques and methods for limiting flooding impacts. Sea Grant prepared a report annotating Oxford’s ordinances with suggestions to reduce flooding and specially indicating additions to support green infrastructure.
Results
The City of Oxford, Mississippi, revised its stormwater ordinances incorporating suggestions from the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Legal Program to improve its resilience to flooding impacts, expand the ordinance’s consideration of green infrastructure and reduce the city’s risk of economic harm from stormwater.
Recap
The City of Oxford, Mississippi, revised its stormwater ordinances to incorporate suggestions from the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Legal Program to improve resilience to flooding, expand consideration of green infrastructure and reduce risk of economic harm from stormwater. (2018)