Eight multimillion-dollar homes with sprawling yards on the Connecticut shore are poised to become eligible for taxpayer-funded disaster aid.
In this April 2, 2019 photo, an osprey lands on a nest in the marsh in front of multimillion-dollar homes along a peninsula in Old Saybrook, Conn. The homes are among more than 900 structures on the East Coast that would become newly eligible for federal disaster aid, under a proposed remapping of coastal protection zones by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
But a proposed massive overhaul of the protection system to correct mapping mistakes and other errors would lift the prohibition on aid for the Fenwick homes and more than 900 other structures along the East Coast from New Hampshire to Virginia. That would allow the owners to buy lower-cost flood insurance backed by the federal government and potentially benefit from millions of dollars in other federal aid to fix infrastructure including roads and bridges.
The proposal, however, has garnered support from several environmental groups because it would also add 277,000 acres into the protection system. In the case of the Fenwick and Southampton properties, Hires said the proposal simply corrects past mistakes: Officials now argue that the original determination that there wasn’t enough development on the lands to keep them out of the system was wrong and thus the properties should never have been in the protection zone.
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