I couldn't give you a specific answer to your question about who started the program and who came up with the idea for a program before 1997. Certainly, there are people who have taken advantage of it and, in some places, the results are good. So that's a good thing.
As for what the municipality can do, I'd say that we are getting organized. That's what we're doing now, with the resources available to us, of course.
Drones were mentioned earlier. At the very least, we could think about using drones to collect images. You could even use data captured every year using LiDAR technology to make comparisons.
All of this requires people who are familiar with the systems. It takes experts in the field.
We're going to start using this technology, but we have to be careful because we're talking about homes that are on the waterfront. This isn't a municipality-wide problem. We have to see how much money the municipality can invest to support these homeowners in terms of doing the characterization of each property.
We want to get things moving a little bit anyway, but we'll definitely need more support than what we have currently.