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Changes coming to building codes, but nothing certain, yet; many damaged homes not consistent with current FEMA regulations cannot be repaired.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 19-SEP-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
OCEAN SPRINGS -- Donovan Scruggs, director of community development and planning for Ocean Springs, said it isn't likely that people are going to be required to build to a level where they wouldn't have received any damage from Hurricane Katrina.

"You can't make people construct on 50-foot pilings," Scruggs said. "I've heard the storm surge was between 25 and 30 feet. I know houses on the beach constructed at 18 or 19 feet that went...

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