Lies in Wise Government Planning and Spending
In 2013, the city of Miami Beach
initiated a 10-year, $600-million stormwater management program to address
sunny day flooding and sea level rise primarily by elevating roads and
installing stormwater pumps.
This program is funded locally by the stormwater
utility fee. About $150 million has been invested to date.
“Over the last three
years the city commission has added more than 15 progressive land-use and
zoning changes to make the city more resilient,” said Susanna Torriente, chief
resilience officer and assistant city manager of Miami Beach.
“In April 2018,
Miami Beach invited the Urban Land Institute to host a three-day advisory panel
to evaluate the current program to determine if the city was on the right
track.
ULI commended the city’s incremental approach and its sense of urgency
and recommended several enhancements to the existing program — more integrated
planning, more blue and green infrastructure to complement the pumps and pipes,
and more strategic communications.”
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