Florida Planning Conference 2022 – Orlando - Sept. 7, 2022
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TREY research Leveraging Strengths Strategic and proven relationships. Value Complimentary Skill Gaps Funding 3
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TREY research ThankYou Tara McCue tmccue@ecfrpc.org407-245-0300www.ecfrpc.org 8
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Dr. Jason M. Evans, Executive Director Institute for Water and Environmental Resilience
Stetson University
Bringing Science to Green Infrastructure Planning and Implementation
Florida Planning Conference 7, 2022 Orlando, FL
Section 502 of the Clean Water Act defines green infrastructure as "...the range of measures that use plant or soil systems, permeable pavement or other permeable surfaces or substrates, stormwater harvest and reuse, or landscaping to store, infiltrate, or evapotranspirate stormwater and reduce flows to sewer systems or to surface waters."
https://www.epa.gov/green-infrastructure/what-green-infrastructure
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Climate change and sea-level rise
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General Timeline of Sea Level Rise Impacts on the Built Environment
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Figure by Emily Niederman, Stetson University
Canaveral “Walking
Cape Audit” 24, 2020
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Brenda Defoe-Surprenant & Jeff Ratliff, City of Cape Canaveral
Walking Audit Banana River Park
Brenda Defoe-Surprenant and Tara McCue
Walking Audit
Thurm Boulevard
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January 23 workshop, City of Cape Canaveral
City of Cape Canaveral, Center St. drainage June 13, 2021
~2.53 inches in ~1 hour on June 13
~2.9 inches in 45 minutes on July 8
Cape Canaveral, Center St. Outfall (September 2021)
c) Removing unnecessary impervious cove (and not unnecessarily creating more impervious cover)
b) Incentivizing homeowners to install cisterns/rain barrels, as well as redirecting property-level stormwater toward pervious cover
What to do in a built-out beach community with circa 1960s infrastructure already being impacted by sea-level rise and coastal flooding?
1) The short answer – seize every opportunity to retrofit with green infrastructure and LID in the urban environment
a) Strategically breaching curbs to infiltrate into pervious uplands (e.g., pocket rain gardens) and/or holding/treatment within wet bioswales
d) Redirecting pipe flow into large infiltration basins and/or storage facilities, reducing direct discharge burden into the lagoon
f) Acknowledging that there is no such thing as a permanent “solution”… but that wellconceived interventions and management practices will bring both immediate and longterm benefits
2) The longer answer – redirect (and reimagine) stormwater by:
e) Engaging up front with the challenges of investment and maintenance… with objectively frank contrasts to the foreseeable price of business as usual (increased flooding, algal blooms, fish kills, etc.)
And Collect DATA!
Are there opportunities to use available information to more plan for siting
proactively
of green stormwater infrastructure at a much larger landscape scale?
Diagram by Daniel Hitchcock & SC Sea Grant
SuitabilityLID/GSI Model for Volusia Brevardand counties, FL
Jevans1@Stetson.edu With great thanks to these community partners and funding entities!
THE CITY OF CAPE CANAVERAL & REGIONAL PARTNERSHIPS 2022 FLORIDA PLANNING CONFERENCE (FAPA)
CITY OF CAPE CANAVERAL
Brevard County, Florida (The Space Coast)
PROJECT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS 2022 and beyond — Continued coordination with Partners (The Nature Conservancy, Indian River Lagoon National Estuary Program, etc.) 2021 — Environmental Innovation Corridor Concept Develops 2021 — Green Infrastructure Open House 2020 — Sea Grant/Stetson Project Begins
To assess how green infrastructure interventions provide cost-effective flood mitigation.
PARTNERSHIP GOAL
Fillmore Ave. City of Cape Canaveral, June 2021
STRATEGIC GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE LOCATIONS
Wagner Park (N. Atlantic Ave, Cape Canaveral)
Wagner Park (N. Atlantic Ave, Cape Canaveral)
Develop a “green corridor” through the City via the acquisition and conservation of two wooded parcels of land on Thurm and Central Blvd.
ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION CORRIDOR CONCEPT
Parcels amount to ~15 acres; contain wetlands and some of the last undisturbed coastal hammock ecosystem examples on the barrier island.
Properties would be made into stormwater nature parks to help control/treat stormwater runoff, reduce flooding, increase biodiversity and promote ecotourism.
Credit: City of Boston, Climate Ready Boston Phase 1 (2017)
Credit: GreenWorks, Zidell Green Infrastructure, Portland, Oregon)
Credit: City of Buffalo, Green Infrastructure/Stormwater Design Concept
TO BE CONTINUED… NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION CIVIC INNOVATION CHALLENGE
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION CIVIC INNOVATION CHALLENGE
Primary engagement and planning activities include three participatory design charettes, follow-up online surveys for charette participants and other community members feedback on GSI design and research goals
Stage 2 proposal is the implementation of a GSI-project that includes performance-based monitoring to quantify volumetric runoff mitigation, nutrient remediation, maintenance costs, socioeconomic amenity valuations, and other ecosystem service values
6 month “Stage 1” planning grant to develop a proposal for green stormwater infrastructure (GSI)
Stage 1 planning grant period is to be used for development of a Stage 2 implementation proposal in direct collaboration with community partners
Assess the performance of Green Stormwater Infrastructure for Climate Adaptation and Coastal Resilience in the City of Cape Canaveral, Florida
b.defoe-surprenant@ecfrpc.org
Brenda Defoe-Surprenant, Director Of Planning (East Central Florida Regional Planning Council)
Zachary Eichholz, Deputy Community and Economic Development Director + Sustainability Manager
z.eichholz@cityofcapecanaveral.org
THANK YOU.
VOLUSIA RESILIENCE INITIATIVES
AND PARTNERSHIPS 46 September 2022 Katrina Locke, Sustainability and Resilience Manager, Volusia County Environmental Management
Resilient Volusia
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Bounds for Planning for Sea Level Rise
ECF Regional Resiliency Action Plan Recommended
Daytona Beach Shores Tidal Gauge
Infrastructure and Environment
LID is an approach to land development (or re-development) that works with nature to manage stormwater as close to its source as possible. LID employs principles such as preserving and recreating natural landscape features, minimizing effective imperviousness to create functional, and appealing site drainage that treats storwater as a resource rather than a waste product.
Low-impact Development
www.epa.gov
Green Infrastructure (GI) includes natural or living features (including engineered structures built to mimic natural features in look and functionality) that perform critical natural processes.
Regional Resilience Collaborative Green, Gray and Blue Infrastructure committee. 55
Sandra Stetson Aquatic Center Stormwater and Green Infrastructure Demonstration DEPprojects319 Non-Point Source Pollution Education grant, $60,000
Optimizing the coupled human and natural system benefits for public land acquisitions in the east central Florida coastal zone Stetson University received a grant funded by Florida Sea Grant: Identify barriers to habitat corridors and migration Examine Open Space through a Resilience Lens Engage stakeholders and experts to advance resilience solutions Develop specific policy and conservation land acquisition recommendations and processes to establish focus areas
Resilient Volusia Phase 2 - Adaptation Action Areas Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Florida Resilient Coastlines Program grant: • Engagement of internal and external stakeholders • Identification and development of policies for AAAs • Assessment of infrastructure in AAAs identified through the stakeholders • Checklist and procedural process for managing capital improvement projects
Adaptation Action Areas
HB 7207 Adaptation Action Areas (2011)
Section 163.3164, F.S.- (1) “Adaptation action area” or “adaptation area” means a designation in the coastal management element of a local government’s comprehensive plan which identifies one or more areas that experience coastal flooding due to extreme high tides and storm surge, and that are vulnerable to the related impacts of rising sea levels for the purpose of prioritizing funding for infrastructure needs and adaptation planning.
(Volusia County Flooding 2014 WDBO)
Partnerships 61 VCARD - Volusia County Association for Responsible Development LID - Barriers, standards and incentives University of Florida Green Stormwater Infrastructure Maintenance Certification Training
62 New grants: Department of Economic Opportunity FDEP Resilient Florida Grant Program Countywide Vulnerability Assessment with Community Engagement
Planning and funding projects
Spring Hill Partnership
Environmental Management klocke@volusia.org386736-5927
Katrina Locke
Volusia County
Sustainability and Resilience Manager
COMMUNITY RESILIENCE THROUGH GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE
Dr.
Shilretha Dixon, Joyce M. Cusack Resource Center Administrator
Spring Hill, DeLand
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Spring Hill Boys
Central Florida Regional Planning Council Riverside Conservancy University of Florida - Florida Friendly Landscaping TM Program, Center For Land Use Efficiency Barry University Center for Earth Jurisprudence Spring Hill Resource Center, City of DeLand University of Florida IFAS Volusia County Extension Stetson Flagler/VolusiaUniversityCareer Source
Project funding and partners
& Girls Club
Community Resilience through Green Infrastructure Job Fair at the T.U.R.N Festival (To Unite Rebuild and Network) Green Industries Best Management Practices (GIBMP) Training Government Alliance on Race & Equity (GARE) convening Boys and Girls Club environmental education
GI Workshops Green Infrastructure workshop Techniques to reduce flooding impacts on individual lots Rain Barrel workshop Rain garden planting
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Spring Hill Park planting project
Resilience Academy
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