> Calgary did this after the 2013 Bow river flood. They bailed out the homeowners. But if they choose to rebuild on those lots, next time they get zero. They ar

> Calgary did this after the 2013 Bow river flood. They bailed out the homeowners. But if they choose to rebuild on those lots, next time they get zero. They are on their own. If you're talking about the town of High River/the Highwood River/the Beachwood estates and Wallaceville, it was about 102 houses out of 250 eligible and a couple hundred more affected. All but 14 lots were explicitly not up for development, at any risk; Beachwood and Wallaceville are being renaturalized as a floodplain and High River's removing infrastructure. The houses that weren't destroyed, demolished, or auctioned off to be moved are still there and uninhabited.[1] Other damaged neighborhoods that were bought out got tossed around between provincial governments for eight years until High River bought them back for redevelopment.[2] There are regulations - the Floodway Development Regulation in particular - against developing floodways, but haven't been promulgated to prevent, or even disincentivize, development.[3][4] (If they had been, parts of Fort McMurray rebuilt after the 2016 wildfires that then flooded in 2020 wouldn't have been rebuilt in the first place.)[5] The province also wouldn't fund buyouts of other flood-risk properties downstream of High River.[6] (Indeed, the High River bailout was OVERfunded, and High River sent money back to the county in January.)[7] [1] https://www.highriveronline.com/articles/beachwood-naturalization-moving-ahead-in-high-river https://www.highriveronline.com/articles/beachwood-naturaliz... [2] https://www.highriveronline.com/articles/province-and-high-river-nearing-deal-for-14-homes-in-the-northwest https://www.highriveronline.com/articles/province-and-high-r... [3] https://www.evabogdan.ca/uploads/8/1/4/0/81403352/bogdan_bennett___yumagulova_accepted_manuscript_with_figures.pdf https://www.evabogdan.ca/uploads/8/1/4/0/81403352/bogdan_ben... [4] https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/5da26123-e3df-45b8-a928-ee65ca3b2e50/view/ca6c43a2-de0e-4bd4-a2f5-f3ce94a1c7bb/Bogdan_Eva_Angelyna_201906_PhD.pdf https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/5da26123-e3df-45b8-a92... [5] https://theconversation.com/fort-mcmurrays-flood-disaster-was-foreseeable-and-preventable-137850 https://theconversation.com/fort-mcmurrays-flood-disaster-wa... [6] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/foothills-county-flooding-houses-1.6021413 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/foothills-county-floo... [7] https://www.highriveronline.com/articles/high-river-excess-flood-funding-to-go-to-foothills-county https://www.highriveronline.com/articles/high-river-excess-f...