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GREATER MIAMI AND THE BEACHES
RESILIENCE STRATEGY
WHAT IS RESILIENCE?
Resilience is the capacity of individuals, communities,
institutions, businesses and systems within a city to survive,
adapt, and grow no matter what kinds of chronic stresses and
acute shocks they experience. Resilience planning is about
making a city better, in both good times and bad, for the benefit
of all its residents and visitors, particularly the poor and
vulnerable.
WHAT ARE SHOCKS AND STRESSES?
Acute shocks are sudden and sharp events that threaten a city
such as infrastructure failure or hurricane. Chronic stresses such
as poverty and social inequity weaken the fabric of a city on a
day-to-day or cyclical basis.
WHAT IS MY ROLE?
The Agenda Setting Workshop described overleaf is the first
opportunity for jurisdictions, community organizations,
businesses and the community to get involved. While there
were over 200 participants and 100 relevant organizations
represented at the workshop, the GM&B aims to further
participation including representation of vulnerable entities
through continued education, engagement and participative
workshops as part of the Resilience Strategy Development
Process.
THE CITY RESILIENCE FRAMEWORK
The City Resilience Framework (CRF) provides a lens to
understand the complexity of cities and the drivers that
contribute to their resilience, and a common language that
enables cities to share knowledge and experiences. The CRF is
built on four essential dimensions of urban resilience: Health &
Wellbeing; Economy & Society; Infrastructure & Environment;
and Leadership & Strategy. Each dimension contains three
"drivers," which reflect the actions cities can take to improve
their resilience.
GREATER MIAMI AND THE
BEACHES AGENDA SETTING
WORKSHOP SUMMARY
WORKSHOP SUMMARY
On September 29, 2016 GM&B 100 Resilient C
Agenda Setting Workshop was held to engage planr
architects, engineers, faith leaders, community, and
for-profit groups in the region in thinking about buil
a collaborative platform for the future resiliE
strategy. The intent of the workshop was to dev
participants' understanding and exposure to resiliE
thinking as well as review the issues that GM&
facing. The workshop was held in the midst of the
pandemic, and shortly before Hurricane Matthew
due to land on the Florida coast, highlighting the r
for GM&B to be ready to react to both new
recurring shock events. Shocks like these can P
lasting impacts on the economy of the region, and
disproportionally affect vulnerable populations.
SHOCKS AND STRESSES PRIORIZATION
Participants discussed and prioritized shocks
stresses faced by GM&B at each table. Discus
included interpretation of the severity of various she
and stresses, whether the issue was localized and v
potential consequences could be; comparing
potential impacts of hurricanes, the 2007-21
economic recession and the crippling effects
infrastructure failure can have.
Discussion leading up to the prioritization of
stresses included the lack of an adequate n
transportation system which results in current
congestion as well as the potential catastrophic eff,
sea -level rise will have on GM&B in the future and
uncertainty associated with aging infrastructure.
Other issues discussed included racism and ho)
differs from other US cities given GM&B
predominantly Hispanic; increasing temperate
resulting in increased energy costs (so an econorr
concern rather than an environmental concern),
finally that infrequent, public health events f
potential to create great havoc on the economy as t
will impact the tourism economy. The top shocks
stresses are identified summarized in the column on
following page.
WORKSHOP SESSION SUMMARY
CITY RESILIENCE DIAGNOSTIC
Participants examined the relative strengths and weaknesses
across GM&B in terms of the 12 drivers that make up the City
Resilience Framework. Participants had rich discussions to
reach consensus, sharing contrasting examples across the
region. Highest and lowest ranked performers are identified
in the circular graphic below and summarized in the column
to the right.
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RESILIENCE PROJECT REVIEW
Each of the tables was given one of the six corridors from
the Metropolitan Planning Organization's Strategic Miami
Area Rapid Transit (SMART) plan which identifies a potential
mass transit route as part of a resilience review. Participants
were asked to consider how the project could be designed
under a flooding scenario and under a socio-economic
scenario (lack of equity and affordable housing) to provide
maximum co -benefits and resilience for the region, beyond
that of simply reducing congestion. Across the workshop,
regardless of corridor, participants noted that user access,
pedestrian amenities and mixed-use buildings be located
along the corridors to maximize ridership.
Hurricanes/Tornado (22%)
Economic Crash (11%)
Infrastructure Failure - Cyber
Security/ Communications (9%)
Infrastructure Failure - Transport/
Access (9%)
Inadequate Transportation
System (15.5%)
Sea Level Rise (15.5%)
Aging Infrastructure (15.5%)
Lack of Affordable Housing (14%)
Access to Quality Education (7%)
Ensures continuity of critical
services (21%)
Meets basic needs (14.5%)
Fosters long-term and
integrated planning (10%)
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Provides reliable
communications and mobility
(31%)
Empowers a broad range of
stakeholders (12.5%)
Supports livelihoods and
employment (8%)
Ensures social stability,
security and justice (8%)
Provides and enhances
natural and manmade assets
(8%)
SUMMARY AND NEXT STEPS
NEXT STEPS
The team is comprised of CROs and Deputy CROs
from Miami -Dade County, the City of Miami, and
the City of Miami Beach leadership from 100RC
and GM&B's strategy partner, AECOM. This group
continues to work together on the next phase of
the 100RC Strategy Development Process,
building on the momentum generated by the
workshop. At the workshop, many participants
expressed interest to remain engaged throughout
the process and the committee is eager to include
and inform participants at critical points of the
program.
As part of Phase I the team will develop a
Preliminary Resilience Assessment - a baseline of
the current state of resilience of GM&B to the
shocks and stresses described above through
further interviews, workshops and surveys.
Further research, technical analysis and
engagement in Phase II with a wide range of
stakeholders will then help the team develop a
resilience strategy with both short and long terms
actions to address the most critical challenges
identified in Phase I. The preliminary schedule
targets the strategy being launched in early 2018.
Launch Preliminary Resilience
Meeting Assessment + Discovery Areas
GM&B was selected as a member of 100
Resilient Cities in part based on
priorities noted in their application:
Shocks
Stresses
o Hurricane + Typhoon +
o Rising Sea Level + Coastal
Cyclone
Erosion
o Infrastructure Failure
o Overtaxed + Unreliable
o Coastal Flooding
Transportation System
o Rainfall Flooding
o Pronounced Poverty
o Lack of Affordable
Housing
City of Miami CRO:
Jane Gilbert
City of Miami Beach CRO:
Susanne M. Torriente
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Agenda Setting Discovery Area
Workshop Analysis
GM&B
RESILIENCE
STRATEGY -F AND IMPLEMENT—
Opportunity
Assessment