If all the houses were raised above the flood plain, and if raised boardwalks replace Village Lane. Car parking would be at an elevated, shared lot. Canals may be provided to promote water flushing. Pedestrian bridges fly over the canals reconnecting the boardwalks. Venice of Orient.

A dike is a wonder boundary to the wildland where kids can run all-the-day-long. You may build a house on a mound above the flood, which may obtain even better views on safer elevation. If property owners agree to make the mound next to next connected, it might become a dike, chain of personally owned. Public access will hopefully be integral with it. Private ownership, area protection beyond ownership, and public access right of way, a new amalgam of coastal community resiliency.

“Arbor Houses” may provide a different way to live with water. It may be away from the historic site, may be just upland of it. Building a frame, not elevated buildings, on which each house will be built.

“A Village on Arbor” provides a common, safer, elevated platform, leaving wider vistas. Let creeping vines climbing up the mesh on the frame.