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Occupational Diversity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Planning, zoning, development, and resource management should promote increased diversity of employment and business opportunities, promote access to education and training, expand entrepreneurial opportunities, and promote the establishment of businesses in locations near existing housing, infrastructure, and transportation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nAdaptation Planning Strategies<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n- The planning process can be used to develop strategies for diversifying local economies, to reduce risks that a weather-related disasters affecting one or a small number of employers will have a disproportionately negative impact on the local economy. Strong, diverse local economies are also more resilient, which means that communities are better able to recover quickly after natural disasters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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\n- Planning can be used to provide incentives for businesses to adapt to the changing climate, such as revolving loan funds for independently owned local businesses to make structural changes that enable them to be better prepared to withstand weather-related emergencies and other side effects of climate change.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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\n- Job training opportunities are abundant as we adapt to climate change. Stormwater technicians and turbine technicians, energy auditors, renewable energy and EV system installers, climate outreach coordinators, and many more roles will continue to see an increased need. Partnering with local education systems for technical trainings not only invests in the student, but also in the community and Iowa. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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Planning, zoning, development, and resource management should facilitate the revitalization of established town centers, and neighborhoods by promoting development that conserves land, protects historic resources, promotes pedestrian accessibility, and integrates different uses of property. Remediation and reuse of existing sites, structures, and infrastructure is preferred over new construction in undeveloped areas.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nAdaptation Planning Strategies<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n- Planning and design can identify geographic areas within currently-developed areas of communities and regions that are not located in hazard-prone areas for infill development, redevelopment of existing neighborhoods, preservation of historic structures, and the adaptive reuse of buildings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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\n- Through the planning process communities can develop incentives and policies that promote infill development, redevelopment of existing neighborhoods, preservation of historic structures, and the adaptive reuse of buildings. Tax credits and other incentives and assistance should target the reuse and rehab of vacant properties.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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\n- State housing, transportation, and infrastructure programs can place a priority on infill development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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\n- At the same time, local governments can create post-disaster redevelopment plans that discourage the reconstruction of buildings and infrastructure in hazard-prone areas following climate related disasters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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\n- Furthermore, extending post-disaster knowledge can resilience community-wide. Urban flash flooding in a certain area? Major destruction during the derecho? Heat waves impacting vulnerable populations? Identify other areas with similarities and revitalize with a focus on climate resilience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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Housing Diversity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Planning, zoning, development, and resource management should encourage diversity in the types of available housing, support the rehabilitation of existing housing, and promote the location of housing near public transportation and employment centers.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nAdaptation Planning Strategies<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n- Plans can call for development patterns that mix land uses so jobs, services, schools, shopping and other destinations are near residents\u2019 homes and neighborhoods, and less reliant on transportation networks that may be disrupted by weather-related disasters. Plans can encourage specific actions that remove barriers to mixed use project financing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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\n- Plans can encourage policies that incentivize mixed-income development near job centers, to reduce the likelihood that weather-related disasters will disproportionately disrupt the employment of specific income classes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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\n- Plans can encourage climate mitigation and adaptation measures be incorporated into housing stock. Stormwater management, tree canopy, energy efficiency, passive lighting, buried utility lines, EV charging plumbing, and more can help enhance resilience across during extreme weather and every other day. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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Planning, zoning, development, and resource management should promote activities and development that are consistent with the character and architectural style of the community and should respond to local values regarding the physical character of the community.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nAdaptation Planning Strategies<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n- Natural features (rivers, bluffs, woodlands) are the defining feature with which many communities are identified. Designing the built environment to protect and preserve the salient characteristics of the natural environment often will result in the side benefit of resiliency to natural disasters. For example, some river communities, such as Davenport, Iowa have eschewed structural flood protections in favor of an urban form that accepts flooding. Parkland and other open spaces along the river have come to be highly-valued community assets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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\n- Plans can encourage treelined streets; which are found to be safer and more inviting to people. This can aid residents to prioritize walking or biking as mode-choice. Additionally, this can add carbon sinks to the environment to mitigate GHG emissions. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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\n- Plans can promote native landscaping. Iowa has lost much of it’s native landscape, encouraging property owners to reincorporate native landscaping and other best management practices can lead to better stormwater management, carbon storage, water quality, biodiversity, and more. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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\n- Community character can be founded and sustained in resilience. Green streets and town centers, higher-density and mixed-use development both promote walking which spurs economic development. Community solar projects create bonds between neighbors which leads to a more cohesive community. Awareness of resilience issues can create ambassadors and volunteers who wholly enhance sustainable programming efforts. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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Natural Resources and Agricultural Protection<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Planning, zoning, development, and resource management should emphasize protection, preservation, and restoration of natural resources, agricultural land, and cultural and historical landscapes, and should increase the availability of open spaces and recreational facilities.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nAdaptation Planning Strategies<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n- Plans can promote standards, regulations and incentives for water conservation, so that communities are better prepared to respond to lower water supplies. Water availability should be considered in development reviews, planning decisions, infrastructure investments, and development incentives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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\n- Use planning policies regarding infrastructure investments, extension of urban services and utilities and preservation of natural or agricultural areas to create compact regional development patterns that avoid hazard-prone areas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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\n- Identify and protect wetland areas that are critical to slow the release of water into streams during times of extreme rain events.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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\n- Establish strategies to promote redevelopment and compact new development that will minimize the conversion of farmland and woodland for urban use, to reduce the amount of impervious surface coverage in watersheds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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\n- Develop state plans and programs to help farmers incorporate environmental protection practices, such as wetland protection, wetland restoration, buffer strips and natural ground cover (grasses) that have been shown to lessen the \u201cflashiness\u201d of stream flow. Promote federal, state and local funding for preservation of open space, farm and forest land.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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\n- Participation in watershed-wide planning and efforts leads to better communication with neighboring communities and multi-jurisdictional efforts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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Sustainable Design<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Planning, zoning, development, and resource management should promote developments, buildings, and infrastructure that utilize sustainable design and construction standards and conserve natural resources by reducing waste and pollution through efficient use of land, water, air, and materials.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nAdaptation Planning Strategies<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n- The time horizons of plans themselves need to be extended to account for potential long-term impacts of climate change. Planners can no longer assume a \u201cstatic\u201d set of assumptions about the natural environment. 50-to 100-year time frames are not unreasonable planning horizons when developing scenarios about the future of a community\u2019s built environment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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\n- Plans can set design standards that promote the resiliency of the built environment in the face climate change. One example is to design sidewalks to distribute stormwater to open space for recharge and to prevent flooding.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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\n- Design communities, neighborhoods and individual development projects using techniques that reduce heat absorption throughout the community and region to lessen heat-island effects during periods of extreme high temperatures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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\n- Encourage the use of passive lighting, renewable energy, and alternative transportation options through building and neighborhood development to lessen footprint and increase resilience. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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Transportation Diversity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Planning, zoning, development, and resource management should promote expanded transportation options for residents of the community. Consideration should be given to transportation options that maximize mobility, reduce congestion, conserve fuel, and improve air quality.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nAdaptation Planning Strategies<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n- Plan schools and public facilities to be accessible by multiple modes (walking, biking, driving or transit) to reduce automobile reliance during times of emergencies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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\n- Encourage development patterns generally that support community resiliency by providing for multiple transportation options to employment centers and retail centers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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