City planners who approve new housing zones in low lying areas are partially to blame here. If climate change is a known risk, how is it legal to approve housin

City planners who approve new housing zones in low lying areas are partially to blame here. If climate change is a known risk, how is it legal to approve housing in such areas? We should encourage approving city expansion only into regions that are naturally immune to 500-year floods. Otherwise it's a fight against inevitability