State Initiatives for Community Resilience in Florida

Florida’s communities are facing increasing need to address sea level rise, intensified storms, flooding and other impacts of climate change in their planning processes. In this webinar, Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s Resilient Florida Program Planning Section Leader, Whitney Gray, shared DEP’s work to implement the Sea Level Impact Projection (SLIP) studies and Resilient Florida programs. Florida Department of Transportation’s Jennifer Carver, AICP, and Mary Jane Hayden, P.E., presented FDOT’s resiliency policy, current efforts to address resiliency within the department, including some recent project-specific examples. Melissa Coleman Corbett, CFM, of the Department of Economic Opportunity covered DEO’s efforts related to addressing the Peril of Flood statutory requirements and the agency’s Community Planning Technical Assistance Grants.