Virginia Special Area Management Planning
Virginia CZM is developing a "Coastal Enhancement" Strategy to address Special Area Management Planning. This strategy includes funding for the Dragon Run. Visit the Coastal Needs Assessment and Strategies page for more.
For over 15 years the Virginia CZM Program has been using a special coastal zone management approach called "special area management planning" to help solve local problems with local partners in the Dragon Run, in the Southern Watersheds of Chesapeake and Virginia Beach and in Northampton County. Over $4 million Coastal Zone Management dollars, including over $3 million in match-free funds, has been invested.
Virginia CZM Special Area Management Plans:
- Northampton County Special Area Management Plan
- Southern Watersheds Area Management Plan (SWAMP) - Chesapeake and Virginia Beach
- Dragon Run Watershed Special Area Management Plan
Northampton County Special Area Management Plan (Northampton SAMP)
Northampton SAMP Project Descriptions and Summaries of Final Products
- SAMP Chapter - Coastal Projects Catalogue (funding prior to 1997) (pdf)
- 1997 Funding
- 1998 Funding
- 1999 Funding
- 2000 Funding
- 2001
Summary of Projects and Funding - 1990 - 2003 (under Sections 306, 306A and 309)
Related Publications and Projects
Southern Watersheds Special Area Management Plan (SWAMP)
SWAMP Project Descriptions and Summaries of Final Products
- SAMP Chapter - Coastal Projects Catalogue (funding prior to 1997) (pdf)
- 1997 Funding
- 1998 Funding
- 1999 Funding
- 2000 Funding
- 2002 Funding
List of SAMP Projects and Funding - 1992-2002 (under Sections 306, 306A and 309) (pdf)
SWAMP Fact Sheet - prepared by the Hampton Roads PDC - Fall 2005 - A detailed history and description of SWAMP initiatives
Related Virginia CZM Funded Projects
Dragon Run Special Area Management Plan (Dragon Run SAMP)
Dragon Run SAMP Project Descriptions and Summaries of Final Products
- 2001 Funding
- 2002 Funding
- 2003 Funding
- 2004 Funding
- 2005 Funding (project active)
- Mercury Monitoring in Dragon Run/Piankatank River Airshed (project active)
- 2006 Funding (project active)
- Mercury Monitoring in Dragon Run/Piankatank River Airshed (project active)
List of SAMP Projects and Funding - 1986-2005 (under Sections 306, 306A and 309) (pdf)
Dragon Run SAMP Website - maintained by the Middle Peninsula PDC
Fact Sheets - Highlights of Virginia's Special Area Management Planning
- Description of SAMPs and Highlights of SAMP Accomplishments and Outcomes (pdfs) - exhibit panels and fact sheets prepared by the Virginia CZM Program for presentation at the 13th Annual Coastal Zone Conference in Baltimore, MD, July 2003
Twelve Years of Special Area Management Planning in Virginia - Virginia CZM Program PP Presentation at the 13th Annual Coastal Zone Conference in Baltimore, MD, July 2003
Section 309 Programmatic Objective: Special
Area Management Planning
Funding for coastal zone enhancement projects which create new enforceable policies in any of nine identified areas: wetlands, coastal hazards, public access, marine debris, cumulative and secondary impacts, special area management plans, ocean resources, energy and government facility siting and aquaculture. Section 309 funding is match-free.
Develop and implement special area management planning in coastal
areas applying the following criteria:
- areas including significant coastal resources (e.g., threatened and endangered species and their critical habitats, wetlands, waterbodies, fish and wildlife habitat) that are being severely affected by cumulative or secondary impacts;
- areas where a multiplicity of local, state, and federal authorities
prevents effective
coordination and cooperation in addressing coastal development on an ecosystem basis; - areas with a history of long-standing disputes between various levels of government over coastal resources that has resulted in protracted negotiations over the acceptability of proposed uses;
- there is a strong commitment at all levels of government to enter into a collaborative planning process to produce enforceable plans;
- a strong state or regional entity exists which is willing and able to sponsor the planning program.
For more on Section 309 go to - Virginia Coastal Needs Assessment and Strategy
