Resilience Planning
Resilience Planning
Resilience Planning
Resiliency planning includes updating land use codes, zoning, development standards, incentive programs, and other plans or policies to better prepare for likely shocks and stresses while also developing measures that allow for action in the face of uncertainty or unexpected events.
Resilient communities are often characterized as systems
Resiliency planning includes updating land use codes, zoning, development standards, incentive programs, and other plans or policies to better prepare for likely shocks and stresses while also developing measures that allow for action in the face of uncertainty or unexpected events.
Resilient communities are often characterized as systems that possess the following seven qualities (100 Resilient Cities):
- Reflective: using past experience to inform future decisions Resourceful: recognizing alternative ways to use resources
- Inclusive: prioritize broad consultation to create a sense of shared ownership in decision making
- Integrated: bring together a range of distinct systems and institutions
- Robust: well-conceived, constructed, and managed systems
- Redundant: spare capacity purposively created to accommodate disruption
- Flexible: willingness and ability to adopt alternative strategies in response to changing circumstances
Water Planning
Resilience Planning
Resilience Planning
Assistance with local, regional and statewide water planning and policy and implementation. This includes municipal creation and update for Water Plans, Conservation, Efficiency and Drought Plans, integration of water management guidelines into comprehensive plans, updating or drafting land use ordinances that support water management goa
Assistance with local, regional and statewide water planning and policy and implementation. This includes municipal creation and update for Water Plans, Conservation, Efficiency and Drought Plans, integration of water management guidelines into comprehensive plans, updating or drafting land use ordinances that support water management goals. Other services include exploration of water rights and water leasing opportunities for new development, riparian restoration and in-stream flows.
Comprehensive Plans, Municipal Codes, Plans and Ordinances
Comprehensive Plans, Municipal Codes, Plans and Ordinances
Comprehensive Plans, Municipal Codes, Plans and Ordinances
Assisting local governments with composing general plans; Assistance with specifics for connecting land use and water resource planning; writing and shepherding legislation pertaining to land and water. Project management oriented towards sustainable environmental solutions, subdivision and zoning, annexation, public involvement.
Applied Research Services
Comprehensive Plans, Municipal Codes, Plans and Ordinances
Comprehensive Plans, Municipal Codes, Plans and Ordinances
Technical, analytical and praxis oriented research on emerging best practices for natural resource and community resilience. This includes program evaluation for federal, state and local government programs and development of pilot projects for proof of concept solutions.