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Appendix D: Communities the Committee Visited
Appendix D: Communities the Committee Visited
Pages 125-130
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The city is also working with the Center for Planning Excellence on infrastructure resilience and with Louisiana State University to develop watershed-wide storm runoff models and storm scenarios to better manage the potential impacts in the region. For more information, see: • Baton Rouge Comprehensive Plan: Future BR: https://www.brla.
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In 2016, the city received a $74 million Community Development Block Grant through the Department of Housing and Urban Development's National Disaster Resilience Competition. The city is using this grant to buy out properties, develop a downtown gathering space, develop a vulnerable population action plan and family shelter, build affordable housing, and create a Souris River Decision-making Tool for river management modeling (City of Minot, 2015)
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; adoption of the principles and goals of the Paris Climate Agreement; membership to the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy; creation of the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority Community Adaptation Program; establishment of the Adopt a Catch Basin program; and wetland restoration. For more information, see: • New Orleans Preliminary Resilience Assessment, 2015: https://www.nola.gov/resilience/resources/nola-preliminary resilience-assessment-6-15 • Resilient New Orleans Strategic Actions to Shape Our Future City, 2015: http://resilientnola.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Resilient_New_ Orleans_Strategy.pdf
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The city is considering ways to finance and continue its resilience work, through resilience projects and by embedding resilience into other city actions and plans. For more information, see: • OneNYC: The Plan for a Strong and Just City: https://onenyc.cityofnewyork.us/#content • NYC Hazard Mitigation Plan, 2016: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/em/ready/hazard-mitigation.page • MTA Climate Adaptation Task Force Resiliency Report, 2017: http://web.mta.info/sustainability/pdf/ResiliencyReport.pdf PINE RIDGE RESERVATION, SOUTH DAKOTA Pine Ridge Reservation has experienced several disasters in recent years including the May/June 2015 windstorm; September 2016 tornado; December 2016 winter storm; July 2017 tornado; and severe storms in August 2017.
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pagename=PWNA_ Native_Reservations_PineRidge • Slate.com, Feb 20, 2014, "A Photographer's Moving Tribute to the Pine Ridge Reservation": https://slate.com/culture/2014/02/aaron-huey-photographs-the-pine-ridge reservation-in-south-dakota-in-his-book-mitakuye-oyasin-photos.html RAPID CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA Rapid City was devastated by the Black Hills flood of 1972. Since then, the city has implemented mitigation measures to protect against future floods.
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130 BUILDING AND MEASURING COMMUNITY RESILIENCE For more information, see: • About Waveland: http://waveland.ms.gov/about-waveland • City of Waveland Local Hazard Mitigation Plan, 2013: http://waveland.ms.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/LocalHazard MitigationPlan2013r1.pdf • Ground Zero Hurricane Museum: https://www.wavelandgroundzero.com
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