Prioritized Assets in Flooding Hot Spots
Adaptation Plan
The City of Key West’s Adaptation Plan will develop a list of comprehensive adaptation structural and non-structural measures at both the regional and community scale and prioritize these actions for a 10-year implementation timeline.
Adaptation Chapters
Infrastructure
Environmental
Historic & Cultural
Power & Water
Economics
Housing & Shelter
Health & Social
Infrastructure
- Identify critical assets at risk
- Reduce structural vulnerability
- Hardened, elevated, or physically adapted to reduce or eliminate flood risk
- Cost-benefit analysis: cost v level of service
Environmental
- Identify critical assets at risk along the coastline and shifts in habitats
- Greenway/drainage features
- Corals, seagrass, & mangrove restoration
- Tree canopy and preservation of natural areas
- Nature-Based solutions for shoreline protection
Historic & Cultural
- Elevating buildings
- Wet or dry floodproofing
- Relocation of buildings
- Drainage/stormwater management improvements
- Recording the memory of a historic property through documentation
Power & Water
- Identify critical assets at risk
- Reduce structural vulnerability
- Hardened, elevated, or physically adapted to reduce or eliminate flood risk
- Cost-benefit analysis: cost v level of service
Economics
- Evaluate risks to businesses, tourisms, ports and government agencies
- Develop strategies based on future challenges and opportunities
- Adjusting financial strategies & policies
- Transitioning to sustainable practices
- Mitigate economic risks for the community
Housing & Shelter
- Evaluate affordable/subsidized housing, retirees & working class
- Identify strategies to stabilize rents and premiums
- Evaluate risks to health and human services
- Exposure to heat
- Consider equity through all strategies
Health & Social
- Evaluate affordable/subsidized housing, retirees & working class
- Identify strategies to stabilize rents and premiums
- Evaluate risks to health and human services
- Exposure to heat
- Consider equity through all strategies
Adaptation Plan Chapter Working Group Kick Off Meeting: July 24, 2024
Adaptation Strategies
- Structural flood protection measures: Floodproofing
- Collection systems/pumping stations
- Wind retrofitting
- Nature based solutions
- Guidelines for future property development (buildings and landscape)
- Policy and code recommendations
- Community outreach and education efforts
- Programs to address vulnerable communities
- Voluntary land acquisition or relocation of facilities
Adaptation Plan Results
- Develop adaptation strategies across the 7 focus areas for each of the Chapters
- Identify planning level cost estimates for infrastructure projects
- Perform cost-benefit analysis for projects, policies, and plans
- Identify funding opportunities for projects
- Develop a 10-year timeline for funding and implementation of the prioritized projects