For many towns and cities, issues like rising seas and extreme weather are new issues with a steep learning curve. They need help to integrate these issues with traditional planning concerns.
Municipalities throughout New England have long struggled to create opportunities to help alleviate the region’s severe housing crisis, without realizing potential solutions may already be within their control.
If we listen more closely to grandstanding at public hearings about new housing’s environmental impact, we often find the assertions brought by opponents are fraught with misinformation and bad assumptions.
