City Commission Conference Meeting on 2024-11-19 1:30 PM

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What is the purpose of the City Commission meeting and who introduces the Urban Land Institute report?

Dean Trantalis 0:00

Uh November nineteenth, twenty twenty four. Thank you all for being here today. I understand that uh John Herbst has indicated he's not coming to the afternoon meeting, so we'll be able to proceed without him. Uh There are no um communications so We can just move on to business one. This is regarding Second, building a resilient Fort Lauderdale developing criteria for road elevation. And the Urban Land Institute report. Who's going to begin that conversation?

Julie Medley 0:43

Hello, I'm Julie Medley with the Urban Land Institute.

Dean Trantalis 0:48

Welcome.

Julie Medley 0:49

Thank you.

Dean Trantalis 0:52

What goodies do you have to share with us today?

Julie Medley 0:56

Thank you so much. So once again I'm Julie Medley, the executive director for the Urban Land Institute here in Southeast Florida and the Caribbean. You've been seeing a lot of us lately. The Urban Land Institute is a non profit organization with a mission to shape the future of the built environment for transformative impact in communities worldwide. So how do we do that? Frequently we do that through our technical assistance, and s and some of you are familiar with some of the work we've done here in the city. But lately Is the microphone working? Lately we've done a lot of resiliency focused work. And you'll see on the slide here a number of cities that we've recently done work on focusing in on resiliency.

Julie Medley 1:40

Uh you'll notice in the state of Florida we've done quite a bit of work in Florida. In March of tw of this year, we assembled a panel at the request of the city in a partnership to address some specific resiliency challenges that you're gonna hear about today. And a group of multidisciplinary leaders came from across the nation. They volunteered their time and have a breadth of um expertise to bring to the challenges that they were presented with. So here today, uh Jim Hyde, the panel chair. who is uh joining us here today from San Francisco will be talking to you about the key recommendations that were made in the report. And Jim is the founder of Urban Green. Thank you, Jim.

Dean Trantalis 2:22

Welcome, Jim. Believe it or not, I have been to Hillsburg. You

Jim Hyde 2:27

have,

Dean Trantalis 2:27

and how did you

Jim Hyde 2:28

like it?

Dean Trantalis 2:28

It's a charming little town.

Jim Hyde 2:30

It it is a charming little town. So I don't usually say that because um there's people know where it is, so you say San Francisco 'cause at least know that. But that's good that you've been there.

Adam Geller 2:39

So uh thank So uh thank

Jim Hyde 2:40

thank you, Julie. Thanks for this opportunity to come back to Fort Lauderdale. We had a really productive time when we were here in March. And um I think it's really important to say that ULI really values the partnerships that it brings to communities like this, especially given the challenges that people across the country are facing um r with these kind of climate related events. As you can see from the the uh Slide here, we had a very experienced panel and the important part about that technical assistance process is to bring a broad range of expertise. Uh we had public finance, public policy, infrastructure architecture and land use and real estate experts. My background is landscape architecture and urban design and then also now real estate development.

Jim Hyde 3:24

So I bring kind of a broad cross section as the chair of the panel. But More than the expertise, an important part of this process is the collaborative uh work that the team does, not only amongst itself, but with your community and with the public works who were instrumental in helping us uh get through this process. So why were we invited? Like many coastal cities, Fort Lauderdale is facing physical challenges at the intersection of weather and land use. And as floodwaters are increasingly impacting your neighborhoods, either from storm runoff or king tides, solutions are needed to protect property and life. So we are invited to look at a specific portion of your city and use that information as a proxy for the larger community-wide set of solutions.

Jim Hyde 4:11

And to looking at four primary questions we were giving. The first was to look at the impact of sea level rise on the roadways in the neighborhood that we were focused on. The second was to identify and suggest criteria and policies to guide the selection of city roadways for elevation, but not only focusing on the technical issues but also on equity issues.