Title
Resilient Hampton Initiative - Downtown, Phoebus and Buckroe Water Plan Update
Purpose
PURPOSE/BACKGROUND:
This is a briefing to provide an update on the Resilient Hampton Initiative's work to create Water Plans for Downtown Hampton, Phoebus and Buckroe. Building on the City's first water plan in Newmarket Creek, this effort will result in specific recommended strategies, projects, and programs to build resilience to the challenge of flooding and the impact of climate change on our coastal community. This briefing follows a three-day design workshop and community meeting hosted in Hampton with consultants Waggonner & Ball, key partners and stakeholders, and Hampton citizens.
Discussion:
This presentation reviews progress accomplished on the plan thus far by: (1) providing an overview of the Resilient Hampton goals, values, and vision that the plan will uphold; (2) reviewing data collection and analysis conducted during the first phase of the planning effort; and (3) reviewing work accomplished during the design workshop May 16-18th to identify initial concepts as well as potential strategies and projects that will warrant further analysis over the next few months of work.
Impact:
Citizens throughout the City will benefit from the plan and the projects it results in, which will address coastal resiliency, reoccurring flooding, while enhancing our waterways, environmental sustainability, tax base, and quality of life. Concepts and ideas generated at this workshop will provide the foundation for more detailed analysis and work by city staff and the consultant team over the next few months. In the fall, the team will present a more final version of these concepts and ideas to share with our stakeholders and City Council prior to adoption of these proposed water plans.
Recommendation:
Rec
No action is being requested of Council at this time.