Building Our Future:
PROTECT
Citywide Conversations
Building Resilience to Climate Impacts Into Local Streets & Evacuation Routes
December 7th, 2022
Hosted by Son Of A Saint
This installment of Building Our Future: Citywide Conversations is focused on PROTECT - a federal program for building resilience into local streets and transportation systems to combat the impacts of climate change. PROTECT can fund projects to combat sea level rise, flooding, extreme weather events, and other natural disasters through support of planning activities, resilience improvements, evacuation routes, and at-risk coastal infrastructure.
- Featured presenters -
Deputy Director, Governor’s Office for Coastal Activities
Harry Vorhoff
“We can’t take for granted that new infrastructure will be resilient infrastructure. We need to be intentional about mitigating risks to infrastructure that not only exist today but also those that may arise in the future.”
Coastal restoration & protection projects in the State of Louisiana Coastal Master Plan.
Tom Haysley
Principal Planner, Regional Planning Commission
The risks to our communities and ways of life cannot be overstated, and addressing them will require a thoughtful, ongoing, and multi-disciplinary approach.
Traditional boundaries between fields such as planning, engineering, and community advocacy will need to be removed.
Social vulnerability indexing tool, derived from US Dept of Transportation guidance. Tom and planners at the RPC are utilizing tools like these to build equity into current and future transportation infrastructure. [Inset is a map of New Orleans with highlighted areas with high amounts of residents vulnerable to a lack of transportation access.]
Download Tom’s presentation - click here
Learn more about the New Orleans Regional Planning Commission
Principal, Water Leaders Institute & Civic Studio More info on Civic Studio
Aron Chang
What's important is investing in people and communities: building shared knowledge and stories, establishing common values and ethics, and supporting collective decision making and environmental stewardship.
Committee for a Better New Orleans is partnering with ISeeChange & Healthy Gulf to document residents’ infrastructure needs, to make sure your perspective can help local leaders prioritize where and how to build a more equitable and sustainable future.
Is there infrastructure in your neighborhood that prevents you from safely leaving during climate events?
We would like to thank Son of a Saint for hosting this discussion in their new facility. Son of a Saint exists to transform the lives of fatherless boys through mentorship, emotional support, development of life skills, exposure to constructive experiences and formation of positive, lasting peer-to-peer relationships.
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