TED GOLDBERG / NJ SPOTLIGHT NEWS – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has proposed a revised plan to protect communities from bayside flooding.

The revamped plan, which would involve spending nearly $8 billion on flood mitigation measures like house elevation and nature-based solutions, is about half of the corps’ original budget of about $16 billion. Under the new proposal, around 6,000 residential structures (down from 19,000 in the first proposal) would be elevated …