The City of Jacksonville warns of more intense flooding in years to come and tens of thousands more residents will be impacted if development plans don’t change.
The city’s first-ever resiliency office developed a strategy to address the increased risks around climate change.
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“We really see this as an opportunity to steer our future away from that worst-case scenario,” Anne Coglianese, the city’s chief resilience officer, said. “The decisions we make today will really have implications for the future.”
Coglianese has been in the position for three years and spent the past year developing the new resiliency strategy .
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While areas in San Marco, Moncrief, and Riverside are familiar with flooding, the plan looks at neighborhoods city-wide. Coglianese said the compound flood model will help the city layout development with an emphasis on low-risk areas, plan drainage improvement projects, and preserve green space to absorb flooding.