ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors describe aggregate changes in several measures of residential exposure to hurricane flooding for a sample of 89 Florida coastal communities in 15 counties and extrapolate their findings to the entire coastal area of the state. They also describe the impacts that these residential land use changes have had on hurricane evacuation clearance times and emergency shelter demand in a subset of our county sample. The authors begin by setting the context for this work with a discussion of Florida's growth management and comprehensive planning approach. Changes in land use within coastal communities alter the numbers of people living within hurricane hazard zones, as well as the types of people and their associated evacuation and sheltering behavior. Hurricane evacuation and shelter studies are conducted at the country and regional levels on a periodic basis under the auspices of eight of Florida's ten regional.
