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2 Community Resilience in Action Panel
2 Community Resilience in Action Panel
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Panelists included the following: • Arrietta Chakos, Principal at Urban Resilience Strategies and Policy Advisor for San Francisco's Associa tion of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) Resilience Program, a regional planning agency that works with 101 cities, 9 counties, and many special districts in the San Francisco Bay area to advance livability and quality of life in the region1 • Jessica Martin, Director of the Boston Indicators Project,2 a special initiative of the Boston Foundation that aims to deepen civic understanding of the region's key trends, challenges, and opportunities using high-quality, open data3 • Bethany Wilcoxon, Strategic Coordinator of Capital Crossroads,4 a regional vision plan which leverages opportunity, talent, and sustainability to ensure that Central Iowa continues to grow and prosper for cur rent and future generations Prior to the workshop, the panelists were given guiding questions: • How did you identify your community's challenges and priorities?
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The LP25 Symposium promoted a legislative program with the following goals: • Ensure building codes meet community performance expectations via improved construction and retrofit standards • Support guidelines to identify, evaluate, and update soft-story apartment and condo buildings • Establish regional financial incentives to improve seismic safety of multi-unit buildings • Convene lifeline providers and cities and establish a Lifelines Council in the Bay Area Because ABAG works with numerous partners, from local government and community organizations to federal agencies, its biggest challenge is scale. Although the ABAG Resilience Program primarily focuses on hazard assessments and vulnerabilities, it is currently developing a resilience inventory, identifying successes, and creating a prototype methodology to help communities better plan for and build resilience to immediate shocks and long-term stressors.
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To promote innovative practices to expand community capacity, the Boston Indicators Project, in partnership with Northeastern University and the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, holds "Data Day," a periodic all-day session and workshop that helps a range of organizations and communities learn how use data and technology to advance their goals. CAPITAL CROSSROADS: A VISION FORWARD Bethany Wilcoxon presented Iowa's Capital Crossroads,11 a vision plan for growth and prosperity in Greater Des Moines and Central Iowa.
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Several regional organizations participate in this project including Bravo, Catch Des Moines, Community Foundation Greater Des Moines, Des Moines Area Metropolitan Planning Organization, the Greater Des Moines Partnership, Iowa State University, Prairie Meadows, and the United Way. About 5,000 individuals and organizations contributed to the process of identifying the region's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and challenges through online surveys, focus groups, interviews, and public meetings.
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12 Provides staff support, guidance, tools, and information to help agencies and organizations understand, communicate, and begin to resolve complex climate change issues. Program elements include leading collaborative adaptation planning projects, assisting adaptation planning efforts, providing the ART Portfolio, building regional capacity for adaptation, and advocating for adaptation.
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