This explains itself... look at Hancock County for Bay St. Louis.

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/special_packages/renewal/before_after/


  Front Beach, downtown Bay St. Louis

*F*ront Beach was the charming door to downtown Bay St. Louis. With the
bay side lined with small shops and restaurants, and more of the same on
the west side of the beachfront road, it was a small-town mecca for
arts, socializing, shopping and eating.

Katrina gouged out the road, the sandy bluffs and any buildings on the
bay. The west side didn't fare much better, although shells of a few
buildings still stand.

"It's important to save the charm of Bay St. Louis," said Mayor Eddie
Favre. "Prior to Katrina we had the best of all worlds but still had the
small-town charm, and we're not willing to sacrifice that. Some have
expressed concern that we would sell out to casinos and high-rise
condominiums, but we're not for sale.

"Even though we lost some of the historical structure, we can restore
some of that look by encouraging folks, as they develop and rebuild, to
pick a pre-Camille, not pre-Katrina, façade on the beachfront and on
Main Street.

"We may not be able to restore the buildings themselves, but we can have
a similar appearance by tying into the Governor's Commission (on
Recovery, Rebuilding and Renewal) and some of the tools we have
available, like SmartCodes, to guarantee mixed use and architectural
design."

Such codes allow uniformity of rebuilding.

"There is hope," Favre said. "I can pretty much guarantee that we're not
looking at anything like high-rise in the downtown area. We're not
willing to give up what made Bay St. Louis a place apart."

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