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Increasing Living Shoreline Implementation In Virginia: Legal And Policy Recommendations, Christopher Antoine
Increasing Living Shoreline Implementation In Virginia: Legal And Policy Recommendations, Christopher Antoine
Virginia Coastal Policy Center
When living shorelines are correctly implemented, they can provide a number of benefits to landowners, localities, and the state. Based on that knowledge, in 2011, the Virginia General Assembly codified a preference for the use of living shorelines in tidal shoreline stabilization projects to facilitate a greater realization of those benefits. Despite the statutory preference, much of Virginia’s tidal shoreline may not be realizing the benefits associated with living shorelines. A recent report from the Center for Coastal Resources Management (CCRM) at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science indicated that, in a sample of coastal Virginia localities from 2014-2016, as …