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City Dock Resiliency Project - For the purpose of demonstrating Annapolis City Council support for the City Dock Resiliency Project and the urgency of protecting Historic Downtown Annapolis along with the public safety of its residents and businesses from the constant and the growing threat of higher rising tides, as well as increasing frequent and more intense storms that cause extreme flooding and severe impacts to residents, businesses, public safety and the historic fabric of the City itself.
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CITY COUNCIL OF THE
City of Annapolis
Resolution 3-25
Introduced by: Mayor Buckley
A RESOLUTION concerning
City Dock Resiliency Project
FOR the purpose of demonstrating Annapolis City Council support for the City Dock Resiliency Project and the urgency of protecting Historic Downtown Annapolis along with the public safety of its residents and businesses from the constant and the growing threat of higher rising tides, as well as increasing frequent and more intense storms that cause extreme flooding and severe impacts to residents, businesses, public safety and the historic fabric of the City itself.
WHEREAS, The Annapolis City Dock is one of the oldest and most historically significant waterfront districts in America; and
WHEREAS, The waterfront areas and Annapolis City Dock have experienced the largest increase in nuisance flooding of any City on the eastern seaboard of the United States; and
WHEREAS, A 2014 study conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration analyzing 60 years of nuisance flooding and the average number of nuisance flooding days from 1957-1963 to 2007-2013 found that Annapolis had the highest rate of increase at 925%; and
WHEREAS, Annapolis has continued to experience significantly increased flooding since the study was issued, with 2024 being the worst flooding year on record in the City with more than 97 flooding events, a major increase from the previous record of 65 flood events in 2019; ...
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