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rent planning.
Positive Signs
One step showing a gleam of hope, is the mitiga-
tion happening along NE 3rd Street and NE 4th
Street, east of Harbor Drive. A very flat area with no
formal city drainage system, stormwater accumu-
lates along the edge of pavement, driveways and
yard swales. This accumulation of stormwater can
create excessive ponding and flooding during heavy
rain and high-water table events.
To mitigate this problem, Munson
Design & Consulting, Inc. (MDC)
recommends installing a new
storm drainage system. MDC will
size and fit the roads with a series
of inlets and culverts which will
provide as much water quality as
possible and an indirect outfall
connection where the stormwater
runoff will discharge to the nearby
canals. This provides the neigh-
borhoods with the most effective
drainage solution.
Another good sign, in early
October the Florida Senate Infra-
structure and Security Committee
held a meeting dedicated to Cli-
mate Change!
The Committee Chairman Tom
Lee, former Senate president,
threw the Scott administration
under the bus for delaying mitiga-
tion action and lauded the current
younger generation of Republica-
tions for the paradigm shift cur-
rently underway in Tallahassee.
Lee also spoke out loud about
planning: “We ought to be doing
what we can to make sure that
we’re building them at an eleva-
tion or planning in an environment
that is relevant to what this world
might look like as time passes.”
Florida has 22 of 25 cities most
exposed to sea level rise.
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