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 Item 7.
COMMITTEE MEMORANDUM

TO: Sustainability Resiliency Committee Meeting


FROM:
Jimmy L. Morales, City Manager


DATE: June 20, 2018


SUBJECT:DISCUSSION ON RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN STUDY

RESPONSIBLE DEPARTMENT:
Susanne Torriente, Assistant City Manager
SPONSORED:
Office of the City Manager
Analysis

1. Create a comprehensive and flexible medium-term plan for urban adaptation

 

2. Expand flood mitigation projects from a single purpose engineering solution to multifunctional green infrastructure

 

3. Reconceive elevated streets and avenues to maximize infrastructural and public co-benefits and to contribute to multi-adaptive infrastructure

 

4. Transform main public right of ways into green infrastructure and exemplify innovative urban adaptation.


ATTACHMENTS:
DescriptionType
Attachment A: LTC 147-2017 Harvard GSD Other
Attachment B: Harvard GSD Letter to MayorOther
Attachment C: Harvard Study Presentation Other