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Resilience Rendezvous: Enhancing Small City Sustainability

Explore resilience opportunities and challenges for small cities, with case studies and lessons learned in disaster recovery and urban planning.

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Resilience Rendezvous: Enhancing Small City Sustainability

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  1. On the Vanguard of Resilience: ________________ Opportunities and Challenges for Small and Mid-Sized Cities Patrick Howell Institute for Building Technology and Safety

  2. The Institute for building technology and safety • IBTS is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization • Provides daily operations and disaster recovery assistance for 130+ small communities across the U.S. • Guided by a Board of Directors consisting of representatives from: 2

  3. Why Small and mid-sized cities? • Local governments on the front lines of disaster resilience. • Tasked with providing day-to-day life safety and quality of life. • Responsible for first 72 hours of response after a disaster event. • Resilience planning and action often constrained by lack of resources and capital. • Leaving smaller communities out of the resilience movement can exasperate the urban/rural divide. 4

  4. community Resilience Mission • Access to resilience assessment, planning and implementation services critical to ensure life-safety and rural/urban equity • CRAFT – Community Resilience Assessment Framework and Tools • A platform for small communities to assess, and in turn, strengthen their social, economic, and governance resilience. MITIGATION RESPONSE RESILIENCE RECOVERY 3

  5. Norristown, pa case study • Small Cities Resilience Competition (IBTS and NLC) • Public, private, and civil society stakeholders • Process • Baseline Assessment • Project Impact Analysis • Recommendations for Implementation • Resilience Planning Workshop • Financial Education • Action Plan 5

  6. Lessons learned from norristown • Resilience action in small and medium-sized communities is possible and obtainable. • Identify a “resilience champion” to interact with stakeholders. • Weave resilience themes into existing capital improvement programs, economic incentives, and social services. • Internal communication and collaboration is key. • Economic and social vulnerabilities can be addressed simultaneously with physical and governance resilience improvements. 7 6

  7. Louisiana Case study • Post-Katrina legislation required Uniform Building Codes be implemented in each parish • State utilized Public-Nonprofit Partnership to ease the burden of implementation • LA scores on Insurance Institute for Building and Home Safety’s Rate-the-States Index: • 2005: 4 out of 100 • 2015: 82 out of 100 7

  8. Regional shared services in la 8

  9. Patrick Howell, Community Resilience Program Manager45207 Research Place Ashburn, VA 20147(571)-926-0945phowell@ibts.org

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