In preparing the plan, the commission shall consider the following factors:

1. (1) Recreational and commercial boating;
2. (2) recreational and commercial fisheries and shellfisheries;
3. (3) fish and shellfish resources, including leased or designated shellfish beds;
4. (4) conservation of natural resources;
5. (5) areas subject to high velocity waters, including but not limited to hurricanes, wave washes or tsunamis, that are designated as V-zones on a flood insurance rate map published by the National Flood Insurance Program;
6. (6) exposed areas subject to flooding and erosion as defined in section 25-70;
7. (7) commercial and industrial uses that are water dependent as defined in subdivision (16) of section 22a-93; (8) water quality and public health; (9) recreational uses other than boating and fisheries; (10) water dependent educational uses; (11) public access; and (12) tidal wetlands, beaches and dunes, bluffs and escarpments and intertidal flats as defined in section 22a-93.

(P.A. 84-247, S. 5.)