A decade removed from Superstorm Sandy, the building landscape on Long Beach Island continues to adapt in ways that will mitigate the impact of a future natural disaster on the scale of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season’s most lethal and catastrophic storm.

“After Sandy, we knew what our deficiencies were, and we addressed them,” said Long Beach Township Mayor Joseph Mancini. “We are more aware and much better prepared.”

To that end, construction in federally designated flood hazard areas, which include the entirety of the Island,…