No traffic deaths on Houston streets, 4.6 million new trees, and no more homes in the floodway. All by 2030.
Those are some of the lofty goals set in the master resiliency plan, “Resilient Houston,” that Mayor Sylvester Turner and city officials unfurled Wednesday, a 186-page document that spells out how the city and its residents can orient themselves to best prepare for future disasters like Hurricane Harvey.
The plan addresses resiliency at five scales — people, neighborhoods, bayous, the city and the region — and sets 18 targets, along with a corresponding set of 62 actions to make those happen.
“There’s a lot in there,” said Marissa Aho, the city’s chief resilience officer, who has spearheaded the production of the plan over the last 18 months. Aho was hired from Los Angeles, where she developed a similar framework.
About a third of the actions are initiatives the city already has in the works. Another third build on existing city projects, and the remaining actions are new.
They range from the immediate term, such as the appointment of resilience officers in each city department this year, to the more distant future, such as reaching complete carbon neutrality by 2050.
The tasks are tall because the plan is aspirational in nature, the mayor said. Turner referred to all the work the city is doing — from the Harvey recovery to his “Complete Communities” program — and held up the hefty plan.
“This is what pulls it all together,” he said.
Turner also signed an executive order asking city departments to align their priorities and budgets with the plan, and to appoint a resilience officer within each department within 60 days.
The departments will be required to provide regular updates on implementation to Aho.
The plan is critical to address what it calls a “new normal” — Houston has suffered six major flooding events with federal disaster declarations in the last five years. The latest was Tropical Storm Imelda in September.
“We understand from experience what experts have quantified: $1 invested before a disaster saves more than $5 after — and sometimes much more than that,” the plan states. “Yet most federal funding is not available for months, or even years, after a disaster.”
The plan was created in coordination with The Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities program. Houston’s membership was funded by a $1.8 million grant from Shell Oil, which also funded the first two years of Aho’s salary.
In addition to planting trees and eliminating homes from the floodway, the 18 targets include 100 new green stormwater infrastructure projects by 2025, development of 50 neighborhood plans by 2030, and the elimination of geographic disparities in life expectancy by 2050.
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