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Sept. 30, 2020

Jack Smith on How Environmental Concerns Relate to Land Use

The Post and Courier

Jack Smith authored a column for The Post and Courier on what kinds of roles real estate professionals and governmental entities will have to play in the face of environmental concerns.

"Increased flooding, sea level rise and heat conditions have communities across our state scrambling to adapt for the future. Part of the answer lies in the natural landscape and how leaders in landscape-scale planning, can use natural or 'green' infrastructure to work with natural systems.

"Another part of the answer lies in building constituencies across jurisdictional and professional boundaries to build awareness and foster collaboration to find viable solutions to a host of seemingly overwhelming issues," Smith writes.

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