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Fri, 2012-11-09 21:05 — mdmcdonald
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Assessing Resilience Planning: Is the City Preparing Smartly for the Rising Risks of Climate Change?

Tue, 2015-04-21 23:33 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

Rooftop greenery is part of the plan (photo: PlaNYC via flickr)

gothamgazette.com - by Sarah Crean - April 16, 2015

. . . Problems like localized flooding will become all the more urgent as climate change progresses. But the threat to each neighborhood is different, depending on where it is located relative to the city's 500-plus miles of coastline, and factors like socio-economic conditions, building stock, and critical infrastructure.

City officials are far from indifferent. Its strategy, in a nutshell, is to gradually strengthen the coastline, upgrade building stock, and protect critical infrastructure. Next week on Earth Day, April 22, the city plans to release a major progress report, the first in four years, on its multi-pronged sustainability framework, known as PlaNYC. As in the past, the report is expected to include discussion of climate resiliency, that is, the city's ongoing and developing preparations to manage for the effects of climate change.

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Country / Region Tags: 
US - NorthEast
General Topic Tags: 
Climate
Economics
Resilience
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Solutions
Problem

Massive New Storm-Protection Barrier Funded for Lower Manhattan

Wed, 2014-06-11 21:22 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

“The Big U,” one of the winners of the Rebuild by Design contest. Photo credit: THE BIG TEAM / Rebuild by Design

nextcity.org - by Graham T. Beck - June 2, 2014

The New York Metropolitan area will soon see a massive, $335 million berm along Manhattan’s Lower East Side, a $60 million living breakwater along Staten Island’s South Shore, a $20 million study of protecting the food distribution center in the Bronx neighborhood of Hunts Point and a $125 million effort to protect north south waterways and the Mill River in Southern Nassau County.

Country / Region Tags: 
US - NorthEast
General Topic Tags: 
Recovery
Sustainable Development
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Solutions

Ecodistricts SUMMIT -- Boston, MA -- Nov. 12-14

Wed, 2013-11-13 10:12 — Gina Angiola
Date: 
Tuesday, November 12, 2013 - 09:00 to Thursday, November 14, 2013 - 15:00

Experience EcoDistricts Summit, the premier conference dedicated to promote sustainable neighborhood development.

Each year the EcoDistricts Summit convenes leading municipal policymakers, developers, business leaders, planners, and community leaders – people with decision-making power – to share best practices and shape the growing EcoDistricts marketplace. Take a look behind development and neighborhood revitalization - for this can’t-miss event for leaders who are shaping and building the cities and urban neighborhoods of the future.

Solutions
Cities
Citizens
Sustainable Development

Guidance for Community Reconstruction Zone Plans - A Planning Toolkit for CRZ Planning Committees

Wed, 2013-08-07 16:07 — Kathy Gilbeaux

nysandyhelp.ny.gov

Through the Community Reconstruction Zone
(CRZ) Program, New York State is assisting communities
to rebuild better and safer based on community-
driven plans that consider current damage,
future threats to community assets, and the community’s
economic future. In keeping with the National
Disaster Recovery Framework, CRZ Plans will consider
the needs, risks, and opportunities related to
assets in the following categories of recovery support
functions: Community Planning and Capacity
Building, Economic Development, Health and Social
Services, Housing, Infrastructure, and Natural and
Cultural Resources.

By completing a successful Plan, each participating
community will position itself to obtain funding to
implement that Plan to improve the community’s
future.

NY - Recovery Resources Center

Guidance for Community Reconstruction Zone Plans -
A Planning Toolkit for CRZ Planning Committees
(81 page .PDF report)

Country / Region Tags: 
US - NorthEast
General Topic Tags: 
Economics
Housing / Shelter
Sustainable Development
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Other

Proposed Bill to Transfer Jurisdiction Over Specific Beaches

Sun, 2013-06-02 17:38 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Dennis McKeon

assembly.state.ny.us

A07168 Summary:

BILL NO A07168

SAME AS SAME AS S04787

SPONSOR Cymbrowitz

COSPNSR Brook-Krasny

MLTSPNSR

Places the area two hundred fifty feet south of the Riegelmann boardwalk under the jurisdiction of the New York city department of parks and recreation.


http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A07168&term=2013
&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Votes=Y&Memo=Y&Text=Y

Sandy Regional Assembly - Recovery Agenda

Sun, 2013-06-02 14:14 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Jill Cornell

Sandy Regional Assembly - April 2013

A coalition of environmental groups made recommendations this week on how to more effectively allocate Sandy funding.

The Grassroots Recovery Agenda was unveiled by the Sandy Regional Assembly, a consortium of nearly 200 environmental groups from New York City and the surrounding area.

The agenda calls for the integration of regional building efforts with resiliency priorities, the strengthening of vulnerable communities and an expanded view of community-based climate change planning.

Sandy Regional Assembly - Recovery Agenda (16 page .PDF file)

Sandy Regional Assembly recommends Grassroots Recovery Agenda - News Video and Article - bronx.news12.com

Bloomberg to Offer Own Sandy Buy-Out Plan, with a Twist

Mon, 2013-03-11 19:06 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

Russell Gordon, a homeowner in Oakwood Beach, Staten Island, who is eager to take advantage of Governor Cuomo's Sandy buy-out plan (Matthew Schuerman/WNYC)

submitted by Boris Suchkov

Could Lead to Rebuilding on Flood Plain Even After Homeowner Sells Out

wnyc.org - by Matthew Schuerman - March 4, 2013

Weeks after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo proposed buying out homeowners in flood-prone areas, the Bloomberg administration is indicating that it will offer a similar program. But the mayor’s program could differ in one significant way: the properties the city acquires could be turned over to someone else to be developed again.

In testimony at a City Council committee hearing Feb. 26, Brad Gair, the director of the city’s housing recovery office, said the Bloomberg administration is working on its own buyout program using federal Community Development Block Grant funding, $1.8 billion of which has been earmarked for the city so far. . . But he added the city’s plan may not stipulate that the acquired properties be turned into open space.

Bloomberg: I’ll support Gov. Cuomo’s casino plan, ‘whatever he decides to do’

Thu, 2013-02-07 11:00 — mdmcdonald

      

Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg

Although Mayor Bloomberg has stated publicly that he does not like the idea of gambliing in New York, he is supporting Governor Cuomo's casino plan, as long as a portion of the revenues come to New York City.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bloomberg-support-gov-cuomo-casino-plan-decides-article-1.997561

Cuomo Seeking Home Buyouts in Flood Zones

Mon, 2013-02-04 12:21 — LuLu2012

Home Buyouts

Photo by Karsten Moran, New York Times

nytimes.com - by Thomas Kaplan - February 3, 2013

NY legislative leaders not sold on Cuomo casino plan

Wed, 2013-01-30 09:58 — Amanda Cole

submitted by Dennis Saleeby

Wednesday January 30, 2013 1:32 PM By Yancey Roy

State legislative leaders aren’t embracing Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s proposal to limit new casinos to three upstate locations -- and say Long Island and New York City should be in the mix.

Cuomo huddled with Senate and Assembly leaders for about 90 minutes Wednesday to discuss casinos and other issues. Afterward they said talks on an expansion of gambling were still “evolving.”

But legislators...

For more, see link:

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/politics/spin-cycle-1.812042/ny-legislative-leaders-not-sold-on-cuomo-casino-plan-1.4535204

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