BOARD AGENDA MEMORANDUM
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Presentation from City and County of San Francisco Staff Regarding the Bay Area-Wide Resilient by Design Project.
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RECOMMENDATION:
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Receive Information on the Resilient by Design project, presented by City and County of San Francisco staff.
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SUMMARY:
District staff, in coordination with the City and County of San Francisco, is providing information on the Bay Area Resilient by Design Challenge, a year-long event planned for 2017, with a call for qualifications potentially released in the first quarter of 2017. The Bay Area Resilient by Design (RBD) challenge partners believe that the District Board is ideally suited to provide guidance and feedback on the effort and look forward to discussing the plans and ideas with the Board. Future Board engagement would provide overarching support in addition to District Interim CEO support of the effort. Resilient by Design details are as follows.
Project Leaders:
The San Francisco Planning Department, BCDC (San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission); California Coastal Conservancy; Bay Area Regional Collaborative; SPUR, SFEI (San Francisco Estuary Institute), the Mayors of Richmond, San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose and representatives of many other local and regional governments.
Project Description:
The Bay Area Resilient by Design Challenge (Design Challenge) invites global experts to engage with Bay Area governments, community leaders, elected officials, designers and the private sector to develop visionary, yet realistic solutions that can respond to the effects of climate change and seismic vulnerabilities on our communities, environment, and infrastructure.
The RBD challenge format is modeled after the successful "Rebuild by Design" competition in the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut region following Hurricane Sandy, which CNN named "one of the 10 best ideas of 2013." As an interdisciplinary, design-driven effort, the final de...
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