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Docket #0291 - Order for a hearing to discuss flooding in the City of Boston
A
B
Mean
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check
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okay,
great
good
morning,
everyone
and
welcome
to
the
City
Council
Boston
City
Council's
I&L
a
chamber.
My
name
is
Michele
woo
and
I'm,
chair
of
our
council
committee
on
planning
development
and
transportation
I'm
joined
by
my
colleague,
city
councilor,
from
district
2,
ed
Flynn
and
city
councilor,
my
city,
councilor,
district
5
to
McCarthy
and
I'm
sure
others
will
be
joining
us
as
well.
B
Today
we
are
here
to
have
our
hearing
on
docket
number
zero
to
nine
one
hearing
on
flooding
in
the
city
of
Boston,
we're
joined
by
a
number
of
panelists,
so
I
want
to
one
quick,
give
everyone
a
quick
reminder
that
this
is
a
public
hearing
being
recorded
and
live
streamed,
which
will
be
rebroadcast
on
chant,
Comcast,
channel,
8,
RC
on
channel
82
and
Verizon
196
for
as
well
as
on
the
city
of
Boston
website.
So
just
to
give
a
quick
summary
of
how
this
will
work.
B
We
have
our
first
panel
representing
city
agencies
and
partners,
I'm
going
to
stick
to
a
hard
cutoff
at
11:45,
including
Q&A
from
councillors
so
and
then
we'll
take
probably
about
10
15
minutes
of
public
testimony.
At
that
point,
then,
move
on
to
our
panel
of
experts,
including
representatives
from
the
Boston
society
of
Architects,
UMass
Boston
in
the
Department
of
Management,
and
the
Center
for
urban.
B
Watershed
resilience
again
take
a
few
minutes
of
public
testimony
after
them
and
then
for
our
final
panel
on
sort
of
activism
and
community
leaders,
we'll
have
representatives
from
Harbor
keepers,
conservation,
Law,
Foundation
and
the
green
ribbon
Commission.
So
to
any
of
my
colleagues,
have
an
opening
statement
to
start.
Would
you
like
to
say
anything?
Oh
and
we're
joined
as
well
by
my
colleague
and
partner
on
many
of
these
issues?
B
C
Great
hi,
all
my
name
is
Alison
buzias
I
am
the
director
of
climate
and
environmental
planning
for
the
city
of
Boston
and
a
resident
of
East
Boston
councillors,
whoo
O'malley,
Flynn
and
McCarthy.
Thank
you
for
the
opportunity
to
talk
to
you
today
concerning
docket
number
291
regarding
flooding
in
the
city
of
Boston.
We
have
numerous
efforts
underway
to
address
the
challenges
of
climate
change
faced
by
the
city
of
Boston,
including
sea
level
rise
and
coastal
flooding.
My
colleague
from
the
Boston
Planning
and
Development
Agency
and
I
will
highlight
several
of
them
for
you
here
today.
C
As
we
have
seen
in
recent
months,
Boston
residents
are
already
affected
by
extreme
rain,
snow
flooding
and
increased
heat
with
climate
change.
These
trends
will
likely
continue
following
each
event.
The
may
each
major
event
we
go
through
a
thorough
analysis
of
what
went
well
and
where
improvements
can
be
made,
and
similarly,
after
the
events
in
January,
we
launch
this
process
focusing
on
analysis
of
flooding
and
how
we
responded.
So
we
were
better
prepared
for
the
next
events
in
the
near
term.
C
The
report
was
developed
in
collaboration
with
the
Boston
green
ribbon
Commission
and
produced
by
a
team
that
included
local
climate
scientists
and
experienced
engineers
planners
and
designers,
climate
ready,
Boston
updates
the
projections
of
how
much
our
climate
will
change
and
identifies
where
we're
most
vulnerable
and
proposes
steps
for
becoming
more
resilient
to
the
challenges
ahead.
The
report
recommends
that
we
adopt
a
layered
approach
to
resilience
that
we
plan
and
design
protected,
shorelines
resilient
infrastructure,
resilient
new
development
and
adapted
buildings.
C
Climate
resiliency
is
an
integral
part
of
all
of
our
major
planning
efforts,
including
imagine
Boston
2030
go
Boston,
2030
and
resilient
Boston
to
build
on
that
work.
The
city
has
launched
projects
in
several
neighborhoods
to
identify
flooding
solutions
at
the
most
critical
flooding
pathways.
Projects
are
currently
underway
in
East,
Boston,
Charlestown,
South,
Boston
and
Dorchester
to
address
how
to
modify
our
shoreline
to
protect
the
city
from
current
and
future
flood
risks
in
the
fall
of
2017.
The
city
completed
coastal
resilience,
solutions
for
East,
Boston
and
Charlestown.
C
With
the
release
of
this
first
neighborhood
resilience
report
mayor,
Walsh
announced
initial
resiliency
measures
to
protect
East,
Boston
and
Charlestown
from
current
and
future
flooding.
These
projects,
installing
a
deployable
flood
wall
in
the
East,
Boston
Greenway
and
elevating
a
section
of
Main
Street
in
Charlestown,
can
block
likely
pathways
for
current
flood
risks.
These
two
actions
would
cost
less
than
four
million
to
complete
and
protect
more
than
4,500
residents
in
at
least
130
businesses
and
some
critical
infrastructure,
such
as
transportation
tunnels.
C
More
extensive
measures
outlined
can
be
built
and
expanded
over
time
in
the
fall
of
2017.
The
city
also
initiated
the
climate
ready,
South
Boston
project,
similar
to
the
East
Boston
and
Charles
Town
projects.
This
one
will
identify
the
short
and
long
term
solutions
that
protect
South,
Boston
and
pathways
into
the
rest
of
the
city.
We
expect
the
report
to
be
completed
later
this
year.
C
The
city
also
recently
launched
the
Moakley
Park
visit,
vision
and
planning
process
which
will
integrate
coastal
and
stormwater
flood
protection
considerations
into
the
parks
updated
plan.
We
expect
to
begin
a
similar
study
on
downtown
and
the
North
End
in
the
near
future.
Coordination
is
a
critical
component
of
these
activities
so
involved
in
all
of
these
efforts.
There
are
colleagues
at
Boston,
Water
and
Sewer
Commission,
the
Planning
and
Development
Agency,
the
MBTA,
our
partners
at
the
state,
the
Boston
Green,
Ribbon,
Commission,
local
universities
and
other
organizations.
C
We
are
also
getting
input
from
local
businesses,
residents
and
other
members
of
the
community
as
part
of
climate
ready,
Boston
and
the
neighborhood
planning
processes.
We
have
hosted
open
houses
conducted
community-wide
surveys
and
focus
groups.
We
have
received
valuable
input
from
hundreds
of
community
members
on
their
priorities
for
design
and
evaluation
criteria
and
feedback
on
initial
options
for
proposed
solutions.
We'll
have
another
open
house
for
the
Moakley
Park
visioning
on
April
11th,
my
colleague
from
the
Boston
Planning
and
Development
Agency
will
now
speak
to
resilient
development
and
adapted
buildings.
C
D
We
are
coordinating
with
the
office
of
emergency
management
and
how
to
respond
to
track
these
type
of
flooding
events
and
how
to
respond
to
these
flooding.
Events
in
the
22
years,
I've
worked
for
the
city
and
waterfront
planning
I
see
the
sense
of
urgency
in
various
actions
that
the
city
is
delivering.
In
less
than
a
year,
we've
made
climate
resiliency
essential
to
all
of
our
planning
efforts,
including
imagine
Boston
2030.
We
have
updated
Boston
zoning
codes,
article
25
and
37,
where
developments
must
demonstrate
resilience
to
sea
level
rise
and
other
impacts
to
climate
change.
D
Downs
a
project
in
East
Boston
will
elevate
its
entire
project
site
forty
inches
to
address
sea
level
rise
and
projected
sea
level
rise
by
twenty.
Seventy
two
twenty
one
hundred
ge
is
retrofitting
as
part
of
their
headquarters
project
along
the
full
point
channel
a
historic
Wharf
building
to
be
protected
from
a
500
year,
storm
event,
seaport
square
development
in
South,
Boston
waterfront,
their
new
buildings
will
be
designed
to
be
resilient
to
40
inch
sea-level
rise
as
well.
I
just
want
to
note
that
Massachusetts
is
number
one
nationally
with
LEED
buildings
in
2017.
D
The
majority
of
this
two
point:
five
million
square
feet
is
within
the
city
of
Boston
an
example
of
how
were
prodding
the
development
community
along
to
to
reflect
climate
change.
The
disposition
of
city
properties
to
request
for
proposals
now
require
proposals
to
plan
and
design
for
climate
change.
Other
planning
initiatives
underway
where
we're
addressing
climate
change
include
the
downtown
waterfront
municipal,
Harbor
planning
area,
Dudley
square
Glover's,
Corner
and
Andrews
Square.
Our
actions
are
guided
by
the
most
accurate
flood
modeling
available.
D
The
City
of
Boston
have
made
deliberate
steps
to
understand
more
about
our
vulnerability
to
flooding,
coastal
storms
and
sea
level
rise
and
2014.
The
city
appealed
the
preliminary
flood
insurance
rate
maps
for
Boston,
based
on
an
independent
analysis.
Our
appeal
was
based
on
significant
errors
and
inconsistencies
and
FEMA's
mapping
and
flood
study
approach.
D
We
also
used
the
appeal
period
as
an
opportunity
to
conduct
more
detailed
and
accurate
hydrodynamic
flood
modeling
for
Boston
Harbor
for
wave
setup,
so
so
so
the
amount
of
duration
of
wave
action
and
flooding
within
Boston
and
its
waterfront
neighborhoods,
the
city
prevailed
in
the
FEMA
appeal
process
and
benefits
from
accurate
flood
modeling
and
mapping.
Our
modeling
and
projections
for
sea
level
rise
are
consistent
with
other
state
agencies,
including
mass
dot,
we're
actually
using
their
Boston
Harbor
flood
risk
model.
So
not
only
is
the
city
planning
for
our
certain
projections
of
sea
level
rise.
D
State
agencies
are
predicting
for
that
same
kind
of
risk
analysis,
so
that
there's
concurrence
and
inconsistencies
in
what
we're
doing
massport
has
flood
proofing
design
guidance
for
all
of
their
projects
and
their
facilities,
including
the
airport
and
their
port
facilities.
Consistent
with
governor
Baker's
executive
order,
569
eversource
just
recently
completed
a
substation
in
the
Raymond
L
Flynn
Marine
Park,
131
million
dollar
substation
is
on
a
25,000
square
foot
concrete
and
steel
platform.
That's
built
15
feet
above
ground
to
withstand
the
war,
storms
and
tidal
surges
to
support
that
platform.
D
Nearly
500
pilings
were
drilled
as
deep
as
80
feet
into
the
ground,
an
example
of
how
the
utilities
are
responding
to
sea
level
rise
and
coastal
flooding.
Our
observations
are
new
buildings
that
are
being
built
along.
The
waterfront
are
resilient,
but
there
are
islands
of
resiliency.
The
roadways
going
to
and
along
these
buildings
are
fine
rubble.
The
flooding,
hop
and
arcade
greatest
vulnerability
is
older
buildings.
We
value
our
historic
buildings,
the
authentic
streetscape
of
the
city.
How
do
we
retrofit
and
adapt
these
architectural
assets
dry?
Proof
them
from
flooding?
D
We
are
reviewing
zoning
mechanisms
to
address
new
growth,
but
also
retrofitting
these
buildings
through
vulnerable
neighborhoods
and
to
implement
district
scale
solutions.
So
the
mechanisms
that
ålesund
dissing
we
would
like
to
capture
through
zoning
overlays
as
well,
most
likely
our
first
zoning
approach
will
be
through
an
overlay
district.
Well,
we've
mapped
out
the
40
inch
sea
level
rise
for
the
city
of
Boston
that
will
act
as
an
overlay
district
and
we'll
start
building
and
requirements
for
new
developments
and
retrofitting
existing
buildings.
D
We
are
challenged
by
the
implementation
of
these
district
scale
solutions.
That's
coming
up
in
our
cell
Boston
climate
ready
process.
This
includes
permitting.
How
do
you
alter
the
shoreline
of
Boston
Harbor?
How
do
you
fill
Boston
Harbor?
These
are
things
that
were
working
with
various
federal
state
agencies,
including
the
Army
Corps
of
Engineers,
the
governance
so
who
manages
and
operates
these
flood
defense
mechanisms
if
they're
gonna
act
like
parks
or
our
physical
structures
who
implements
them
and
maintains
them
from
day
to
day
and
also
funding?
D
That's
another
greatest
creative
challenge
is
how
these
mechanisms
funded
and
maintained
throughout
the
flood
risks.
We
thank
the
council's
input
and
collaboration
on
particularly
the
topic
of
funding.
A
little
bit
of
upbeat
news
is
that
Boston
has
tackled
these
complex
flooding
and
environmental
concerns.
In
the
past
after
the
1950s
hurricane,
the
state
mobilized
the
metropolitan
district
Commission
to
take
on
flood
control
measures
throughout
the
Commonwealth,
but
particularly
in
Boston.
That
included
dredging
and
altering
the
Neponset
River
altering
the
Charles
River.
They
took
over
the
dams
throughout
the
Commonwealth.
So
that's
just
an
example.
D
So
is
pollution
correction
not
just
for
the
city
of
Boston,
but
for
40
communities
that
dump
their
sewage
into
Boston,
Harbor
and
also
the
central
lottery
project
with
the
central
lottery
project,
we
saw
advanced
engineering
that
no
one
had
seen
before
throughout
the
world,
including
freezing
of
land
and
jackin
tunnel
sections
under
Rails
excavating
the
harbor
floor
for
new
tunnel
sections,
so
these
things
are
achievable,
but
they
require
collaboration
at
every
level,
with
the
federal
government
state
government
and
at
the
local
level.
Thank
you.
Thank.
B
You
and
I
think
I
believe
Chris
is
here
to
answer
any
questions
that
you're
on
hand
as
a
member
of
the
team
that
rich
described
so
I
want
to
again
keep
us
to
schedule.
So
I'll
just
make
a
few
statements
and
then
save
my
questions
for
the
end.
It
will
give
colleagues
each
five
minutes,
so
one
I
think
the
reasons
why
we're
here
are
pretty
clear.
You
all
are
on
top
of
every
weather-related
projection
and
and
all
the
cleanup
as
well.
B
Unfortunately,
this
hearing
was
called
after
the
first
of
the
storms
and
there
have
been
more
since
then,
since
we
got
this
scheduled,
so
my
goal
is
to
help
if
I
can
move
us
beyond
planning
or
to
match
the
planning
with
implementation
getting
beyond
guidance
to
legal
requirements.
And
similarly
you
know
we
heard
a
lot
of
the
ways
that
larger
commercial
developments
are
working
with
the
city
or
you
know,
receiving
input
from
the
city,
but
also
moving
us
to
residential
and
sort
of
citywide
small
business
and
homes
that
are
that
are
affected.
B
Let's
see
$150,000
in
repairs
just
for
one
of
the
just
for
the
first
flood
from
remediation
and
restoration
repainting,
the
emergency
response
all
of
this.
So
it's
it's
time
my
time
after
time
after
time,
the
costs
are
really
piling
up
and
then
finally,
wanting
to
get
into
some
of
the
the
questions
that
you
had
said
specifically
permitting
governance
funding,
so
I'll
leave
it
out
there
for
me
and
move
to
the
first
round
of
questions
from
I
got
my
colleague,
ed
Flynn
district
to.
E
E
Flooding
in
January
many
vehicles
had
a
difficult
time
getting
down
to
the
Seaport
a
four
point.
A
lot
of
it
was
blocked
off,
but
if
there
was
some
type
of
major
incident
or
we
needed
an
evacuation
of
people
from
that
neighborhood
are
we
considering
that
option?
Are
we
considering
what
could
happen
if
we
don't
have
access
to
the
to
the
to
the
roads
for
emergency
vehicles.
D
We
are,
after
the
January
4th
storm
the
mayor,
organized
all
city
departments
to
meet
and
report
back
on
the
impacts
of
flooding
and
and,
like
you
acknowledged
the
part,
I
say
the
greatest
impact
was
the
flooding
of
the
roadways
and
the
ability
for
emergency
vehicles
to
get
in
and
out
of
the
neighborhoods.
So
that's
something
that
Boston
Police
and
Fire
Department
of
looking
at
to
make
sure
that
they
have
equipment
that
can
actually
drive
through
flooded
streets
and
and
respond
to
emergency
situations.
D
Yes,
the
Boston
Fire
Department.
We
refer
to
the
term
shelter
in
place
where
buildings
are
being
designed
to
accommodate
the
residences
or
workers
during
a
flood
event.
But
if
the
emergency
apparatus
can't
get
to
that
building,
then
that
kind
of
undermines
that
whole
shelter-in-place
scenario.
So
these
are
things
that
are
under
study
by
by
Boston
Fire
and
by
Boston,
Police
and.
E
D
This
point
outreach
the
city
sent
out
tips
for
flood
proofing
and
flood
protection
before
the
March
storms,
where
we
just
reminded
people
how
to
to
determine
if
their
property
is
in
a
floodplain
and
how
to
protect
an
armorer
that
property
from
a
flood.
What
we'd
like
to
do
is
to
get
to
the
same
level
of
preparation
and
awareness
of
just
like
a
winter
storm
or
where
people
are
aware
of.
You
know
the
the
inches
of
snow
fall,
but
now
the
inches
of
flooding
that
would
occur
in
their
neighborhood.
D
There
is
a
comprehensive
evacuation
plan
for
the
city
of
Boston,
but
that
hasn't
been
directly
tied
to
the
flooding
events.
It's
other
other
emergency
events.
I've
been
the
focus
of
that
evacuation
procedures.
But
again
those
are
things
to
run.
To
study
based
upon
the
last
two
flooding
storms
through
the
office
of
environmental
of
emergency
management
and.
E
D
We'll
have
to
get
back
to
you
on
the
coordination
for
current
events
for
the
South
Boston
climate,
ready
process.
We
are
coordinating
with
every
level,
including
the
federal
government,
the
courthouse
specifically
Massport
MassDOT
on
how
that
area
is
vulnerable
to
flooding
in
and
what
collective
actions
could
be
done
to
protect
that
area.
Thank.
H
You
all
my
colleagues
and
Thank
You
counselor
I,
have
I
got
pulled
into
a
meeting
at
the
Statehouse,
and
so
we
normally
go
in
order.
So
thank
you
to
my
colleagues.
I
just
have
a
quick
statement,
because
I
can't
stay
for
the
entire
hearing
and
obviously
it's
an
important
one.
So
thank
you
counselor
for
calling
it
I
covered
Dorchester
and
in
Mattapan,
but
Dorchester
in
particular,
given
Morrissey
Boulevard
and
the
closures
because
of
the
storms.
H
This
is
an
issue
that
is
talked
about
all
the
time
on
the
ground
and
in
Dorchester,
so
I
would
like
to
see,
and
and
through
the
chair,
there
were
several
questions
proposed
by
several
folks,
including
the
conservation
law
center
or
Law
Foundation
and
many
others.
That
would
be
really
helpful
if
we
got
some
robust
responses
and
I
think
we
can
submit
those
to
you
guys
to
respond
to
us.
H
Not
only
are
they
informative
to
bring
back
to
our
constituents,
but,
like
the
chair
said,
they
offer
ways
in
which
for
us
to
adopt
standards
codes
if
we
have
to
file
ordinances
to
address
certain
things,
equipping
us
with
the
knowledge
that
we
need
in
order
to
do
that,
so
we
move
a
little
past
the
planning
stage
until
actual
action,
but
most
importantly
to
the
ways
in
which
to
hold
ourselves
accountable.
So
any
ideas
that
we
have
any
codes
or
suggestions
that
are
brought
up
in
responds
to
these
questions.
H
Attaching
timelines
to
these
things
is
really
important.
I
think
if
we
learned
anything
from
say
Houston
its,
we
had
a
lot
of
residents,
a
lot
of
great
ideas
come
from
residents
early
on
and
it
would
have
cost
millions,
and
that
was
frankly,
what
turned
many
elected
officials
away?
Was
it's
going
to
cost
millions,
but
now
they're
dealing
with
issues
in
the
billions,
and
so
how
can
we
proactive,
I
look
forward
to
being
a
part
of
this
conversation?
I
want
to
thank
Council
who
and
council
Malley
for
his
leadership
in
this
regard,
as
well.
H
B
E
I
You,
madam
chair,
and
thank
you
for
your
great
leadership
in
calling
this
hearing
on
on
so
many
issues.
Lady
gentlemen,
good
afternoon,
thank
you
to
all
who
have
come
to
participate
as
well.
You
know,
I
think
that
the
good
thing
is
we
all
agree.
We
all
agree
that
climate
change
is
man-made
and
it's
real
and
it's
affecting
coastal
cities
now
and
I
appreciate
the
work
that
you
all
have
done.
The
only
advice
that
I
would
urge
you
to
heed
is
to
work
quickly
and
efficiently
as
possible.
I
We
have
never
had
more
than
one
hit
that
continent,
the
United
States
in
the
same
year,
and
we
have
also
been
lucky
in
this
city,
despite
the
fact
that
we
are
a
coastal
city,
we
have
seen
some
some
terrible
flooding,
but
you
know
had
superstorm
sandy,
which
was
six
years
ago
had
that
occurred
five
or
six
hours
earlier
or
later
it
would
have
devastated
South
Boston
and
the
South
Boston
waterfront
any
spa.
So
everything
we
can
do
to
address
this
proactively.
I
We
ought
to
be
doing,
and
obviously
you
have
my
commitment
to
continue
to
push
effective
and
aggressive
policies
that
will
address
with
our
greenhouse
gas
emissions
as
a
city
as
well
as
the
funding
that
it
needs.
This
will
take
money
and
it
will
cost
money,
but
you
know
it
will
prevent
significant
costs
later
down
the
road.
So
I
had
a
couple
questions
on
some
grants
that
came
through
the
environment
sustainability
committee
that
addressed
this
one
was
an
Allison
I
think
it
was
when
you
would
first
joined
the
city.
I
You
participated
in
one
on
sort
of
green
gray
infrastructure
we
did
last
year.
This
was
a
state
grant
that
would
allow
for
both
planting
of
trees
and
and
sort
of
elevated
roadways.
This
may
have
been
what
you
were
talking
about
on
Main
Street,
but
has
that
money
from
the
state
been
allocated
and
spent
yet.
I
That
may
have
been
like
I
guess,
we'll
put
it
this
way.
Have
we
done
enough
with
the
state
funds?
Has
there
been
any?
Have
we
been
able
to
take
advantage
of
that
and
other
sources
of
revenue
to
address
these
things?
I
will
get
you
offline,
I,
don't
know
it
off
top
my
hand.
The
docket
number
on
this
green.
I
J
J
I
C
I
There's
so
the
other
grant,
though
I
believe
there
has
been
some,
the
state
was
unable
to
fulfill
their
commitment,
but
this
was
done
several
years
ago,
where
and
I
was
very
excited
about
it
from
a
whole
host
of
reasons.
It
would
allow
for
the
creation
of
PV
panels
on
three
community
centers
in
Boston,
including
Curtis,
Halle,
Jamaica
Plain,
the
Jackson
man
and
Austin
Brighton,
and
one
in
Dorchester.
I
The
name
escapes
me
right
now
that
would
allow
for
communication
equipment
to
be
used
by
Public,
Safety
officials
and
first
responders
in
the
event
of
a
you
know,
man
or
weather-related
natural
disaster
and
I
was
told
that
that
well,
we're
set
to
go
nothing's
been
done
yet
because
the
state
has
been
unable
to
fulfill
that
is
there
any
update
you
can
provide
us
with
that.
I
can.
I
Which
is
you're
nodding,
your
head,
I
think
you
may
have
been
involved
in
that
as
well:
okay,
okay,
that's
great,
and
then
with
you
know,
it's
been
somewhat
of
a
joke,
but
you
know
you
drive
around
the
city.
You
see
these
blue
evacuation
routes,
signs
and
they're
sort
of
pointing
to
Dedham
if
you're
in
West,
Roxbury
or
Milton,
if
you're
in
Dorchester
or
Cambridge,
if
you're
downtown.
What
are
those
and
is
there
a
plan
in
terms
of
you
know
the
need
to
do
evacuate,
particularly
those
who
are
closer
to
the
the
water?
What
what?
D
I
And
I'm
not
trying
to
be
adversarial
here,
put
anyone
on
the
spot,
but
I
do
think.
Maybe
part
of
this
conversation
as
we
continue,
madam
chair,
is
to
sort
of
include
emergency
management,
because
that's
that
is
a
key
part
of
it
and
then
I
guess.
Finally,
what
you
know
you
gave
over
some
I
think
some
good
concrete
steps
that
the
city
is
taking.
What
you
know
is
I
assume
the
EPA
and
FEMA
aren't
in
this
current
administration.
Aren't
sources
of
revenue
or
support.
I
C
I
D
We
we
do
qualify
for
like
pre-disaster
mitigation
funds
from
FEMA.
The
full
point
channel
would
qualify
for
that
because
it's
an
existing
floodplain
but
we're
head
of
other
cities,
what
we're
predicting
for
future
floodplains
and
that's
something
that
the
federal
government
doesn't
recognize.
Yeah.
If
you
see
the
work
that's
occurring
in
New,
York,
New,
Orleans,
Miami
they're
all
focused
on
their
current
flood
risks.
We're
looking
beyond
that.
D
So
that's
where
there
are
no
resources
available
and
we
have
to
be
careful
about
applying
for
infrastructure
grants
because
I
believe
they
would
not
fund
any
enhancements
to
an
infrastructure
project
if
it
would
protect
the
city
from
a
future
fund
flood
they're,
very
careful
about
how
these
things
are
designed
into
what
elevation.
Thank
you
thank.
L
You
very
much
and
I
just
wanted
to
also
thank
councilor
Wu
and
councillor
Mattingly
for
your
leadership
and
this
conversation
that
is
very
much
needed.
I
have
the
pleasure
and
honor
to
represent
the
district
with
the
most
waterfront
in
Boston,
and
so
the
flooding
hit
all
three
areas
that
I
represent
Charlestown
East
Boston
and
the
North
End,
and
so
what
I
wanted
to
do
is
first
ask
some
general
questions
about
the
administration
and
then
get
down
to
certain
parts
and
responses
to
within
the
neighborhoods
just
wanted
to
touch
on
some
general
questions.
D
It
is
a
regulatory
document
and
that
it's
associated
with
the
article
37
checklist,
so
any
projects
currently
that
are
a
50,000
square
feet
or
greater
that
go
through
the
article
80
article
37
review
have
to
respond
on
how
their
project
can
be
protected
from
those
flood
elevations
at
later
times,
for
us
to
implement
a
zoning
overlay,
district
we'd
have
to
go
to
a
public
process
mm-hmm,
which
involves
all
the
communities
that
would
apply
to
which
is
pretty
much
every
neighborhood
along
Boston
Harbor.
So
there
would
be
a
series
of
public
hearings.
D
It
would
need
to
be
approved
by
the
BPD,
a
board
and
a
public
hearing
at
the
Zoning
Commission
right
now
we're
just
looking
at
the
structure
of
how
how
this
overlay
district
or
what
other,
whatever
I'm
zoning
mechanism,
how
it
would
work,
how
it
would
respond
to
the
underlying
zoning.
So
these
things
are
under
kind
of
internal
discussion,
but
will
require
a
public
process
for
input.
Well,.
L
Again,
I
would
just
echo
what
councilor
O'malley
said.
It's
time
is
of
the
essence,
and
I
really
appreciate
your
leadership
already
in
that
area
and
and
before
I
get
continue.
I
do
know
the
amount
of
work
that
you've
put
in
in
terms
of
climate
ready
at
Boston
and
I
wanted
to
acknowledge
that
and
to
thank
you
for
that
work
and
helping
us
to
get
as
prepared
as
possible.
I
have
another
question
and
I'm
Billy
councillor
Flynn
talked
a
little
bit
about
the
communication
between
the
city
and
the
federal
government
and
as
I
understand
it.
L
Fema
operates
a
voluntary
program
known
as
the
community
rating
system.
This
allows
communities
to
earn
credits
for
resiliency
measures
and
reduce
insurance
premiums
for
residents,
and
so
Cambridge
and
Quincy
I
believe
participate
in
this
program.
Boston,
as
of
today
does
not,
and
I
would
be
I
would
love
for
us
to
one
day
does
Boston
intend
to
be
part
of
that?
Is
there
a
process
starting.
C
L
You
so
I
assume,
then
you'll,
let
us
know
when
they
come
salute,
but
it
is
with
the
you
agree
to
the
goal
done
of
us
being
able
to
be
a
community
right,
be
involved
in
the
community
rating
system
to
help
us
save
money
on
insurance
program,
but
also
okay,
great
so
you
had
mentioned
our
I.
Think
counselor
O'malley
touched
on
the
fact
that
there
has
been
a
retreat
or
abdication
of
the
role
of
the
federal
government
and
helping
cities
or
our
water
fronts
and
I
was
just
curious.
L
C
I,
don't
have
a
specific
number
for
you.
I
can
refer
you
to
the
climate,
ready
East,
Boston
and
Charlestown
report,
which
is
our
first
assessment.
That
report
lays
out
estimated
costs
and
priorities
by
what
actions
need
to
be
taken
by
what
time,
to
assure
what
level
of
protection
for
those
initial
pathways
in
those
neighborhoods
the
and
we're
under
process
with
the
South,
Boston
and
Seaport
report.
That
is
likely
to
be
a
higher
level
of
move.
A
C
L
Be
out
of
budget
season,
then
okay?
Well,
thank
you.
I'll.
Definitely,
look
at
those
reports
that
will
help
guide
at
least
part
of
the
the
districts.
So
I
think
you
mentioned
it.
Actually,
the
Greenway
business
district
has
actually
formed
kind
of
a
support
to
been
formed
to
support
continued
stewardship
in
the
area
and
I
was
what
I
was
curious
being
having
the
waterfront
area.
Could
we
use
a
similar
structure
to
support
resiliency
on
the
waterfront?
You.
D
Could
and
models
that
we're
looking
at,
but
it
may
be
more
of
a
government
responsibility
since
it's
gonna
require
significant
capital.
Investments
may
require
federal
or
state
grants
and
long
term
maintenance
by
pooling
funds
through
a
bid.
District
is
one
example
that
we're
looking
at
on
how
to
kind
of
implement
these
funds.
Defense
mechanisms
in
the
neighborhoods
and.
L
L
D
D
How
do
we
fund
a
public
investment
of
private
property
is
another
thing
that
may
require
legislation,
we're
not
at
that
point
where
we
flag
specific
solutions,
but
every
I
think
every
layer
we've
done.
East
Boston
Charlestown
picked
up
challenges,
and
and
and
more
so
in
South
Boston,
particularly
with
governance
and
and
funding.
But
these
are
all
things
that
are
under
study,
we'll
be
reporting
out,
probably
in
May,
with
I'm
ready,
so
Boston
I.
C
Think
later
this
year
we
will
expect
to
have
that
report
out
and
and
as
rich
says
as
we
start
to
understand
and
develop,
not
just
one
resilience
report
but
multiples.
We
can
start
to
see
the
scale
across
the
city
and
I,
then
we're
in
a
period
where
we
can
understand
what
sorts
of
legislation
or
other
approaches
are
necessary
to
tackle
those.
L
Challenges,
thank
you
and
then
just
a
couple.
More
sorry
in
in
2013
boss,
the
City
of
Boston
considered
creating
a
local
wetlands
ordinance
under
the
wetlands
Protection
Act,
the
Conservation
Commission
actually
held
a
number
of
listening
sessions
about
this
and
I
was
just
curious.
Do
you
have
any
sense
of
where,
where
those
conversations
landed,
whether
this
is
a
tool
that
we're
going
to
explore
have
have
you
given?
Has
the
administration
decided
to
abandon
that
effort?
You.
C
L
C
B
Okay,
so
let
me
just
interspersed
two
and
then
and
then
hand
it
back
and
I
know
you
know
we
want
to
get
to
public
a
panel
of
public
testimony.
So
just
touching
following
the
Samoa
line
of
questioning
the
BPD,
a
currently
has
a
resiliency
checklist.
That
is
guidance.
You
referred
to
that.
How
much
of
that
is
mandatory
or
could
be
made
mandatory,
pretty
immediately
right.
D
We
see
right
now
we're
pushing
the
private
sector
to
think
about
engineering
and
design
solutions
to
respond
to
climate
change
in
future
projections,
we're
gathering
recommendations
and
ways
to
implement
these
things
that
will
eventually
become
requirements.
So
right
now,
it's
more
of
understanding
what's
out
there
for
opportunities
to
to
create
better
developments,
but
we
are
picking
up
these
ideas
that
will
eventually
become
part
of
a
zoning
requirement,
perhaps
Building,
Code
or
or
through
zoning.
So.
D
B
C
There's
the
article
37
requires
a
building
to
be
LEED
certifiable,
which,
with
silver
or
with
certifiable
currently,
which
is
which
is
just
the
baseline
level,
and
we
encourage
and
all
buildings
to
achieve
as
high
level
as
possible.
The
checklist
is
a
secondary
document,
and
that
is
where
the
resiliency
guidelines
come
into
play.
Okay,.
C
I
B
D
L
A
couple
more
questions,
specifically
as
additional
buildings
are
adding
new
buildings
are
being
built
and
I
guess
we're
having
a
very
baseline
standard
for
lead.
Some
of
them
or
joining
them
are
still
adding
to
our
carbon
footprint
and
I
was
just
curious
with
our
goal
towards
being
carbon
free.
How
are
you
compensating
when
the
new
development
is
adding
to
our
carbon
footprint?
Where
are
you
compensating
it?
Someplace
else.
C
As
you,
as
you
mentioned,
we
have
a
carbon
neutrality
goal
in
the
city
and
our
current
process
is
called
carbon
free
Boston.
That
is,
a
project
to
analyze
the
greenhouse
gas
reduction,
potential
costs
and
benefits
of
policies
that
could
take
us
to
carbon
neutrality.
New
buildings
are
a
key
segment
of
our
emissions
and
they're
a
segment
that's
being
actively
analyzed
in
that
process,
so,
secondarily,
I
would
Richard.
You
won't
talk
about
the
climate,
change
checklist,
carbon
neutrality
goals,
or
we
also
have
an
in
the
revised
climate
change
checklist.
C
L
You
and
then
I'm
glad
you
agreed
that
you
know.
Climate
change
is
a
man-made
issue
and
that
we
all
have
a
part
to
play
and
making
sure
that
we
are
reducing
climate
change.
So
I'm
curious
in
terms
of
the
I
guess:
I'm
confused
oftentimes
by
the
city's
policy
of
continuing
to
support
a
green
light,
natural
grass
gas
projects
and
why
we
are
moving
in
that
direction
or
still
allowing
that
to
happen
when
we
I
feel
resiliency
would
push
it
towards
electrical
energy
solar
in
our
infrastructure.
C
So
when,
when
I
talk
about
our
carbon,
our
carbon
free
Boston
project,
we're
evaluating
all
options
that
get
us
to
there
get
us
to
to
carbon
neutrality,
including
transition.
So
we
have
to
take
into
account
transition
times
and
pathways
and
costs.
We
need
to
get
there,
but
we
need
to
get
there
in
a
cost-effective
and
efficient
way
for
that
balances.
The
city
of
Boston's
goals
right.
We
can't.
We
can't
pick
a
solution
first,
without
knowing
all
the
baseline
information
and
second
without
understanding
what
the
real
costs
and
benefits
of
that
action
are
and.
L
And
I
and
I
completely
agree
with
that
analysis.
I
think
that's
extremely
important
and
I
appreciate
the
the
strut
the
the
pressure
that
you're
under
in
terms
of
looking
at
this.
But
again
this
is
about
new
infrastructure
that
we're
creating
that's
fossil
fuel,
dependent
and
I.
Think
that
that's
where,
when
we
have
a
goal
of
being
climate,
carbon
free
and
then
also
supporting
again
new
infrastructure
for
fossil
fuels,
that's
where
the
city
seems
to
be
well
I'm,
definitely
confused
about
the
city's
position
or
how
it's
going
to
get
there.
M
C
We
want
to
have
all
the
best
information
available
before
we
make
very
impactful
decisions
for
the
city,
and
so
one
we
have
that
that
correct,
independently
verified
information
that
we
can
all
work
from.
Then
we
come
together
as
part
of
our
climate
action
planning
process
and
we
can
begin
to
make
those
choices
just.
L
Specifically
about
the
district
which
you
had
mentioned
a
sub
stage
in
South
Boston,
yes,
yes,
and
so,
as
you
know,
where
there
was
a
substation
project
proposed
in
East
Boston
and
you
specifically
laid
out
ways
in
which
that
substation
design
was
becoming,
or
at
least
climate
ready.
Could
you
could
you
walk
me
through
that
again,
so.
D
It's
a
substation
in
the
Flint
Marine
Park
that
eversource
completed
I
believe
two
years
ago
and
it's
elevated
15
feet
it's
on
pilings
that
would
withstand
wave
action
and
velocity
I.
Think
the
substation
you're
referencing
in
East
Boston
is
the
one
on
Condor
Street.
It
would
have
to
do
the
same
thing
where
it's
elevated
and
protected
from
the
floodplain,
but
also
projected
floodplain.
L
There
any
movement
in
the
administration
to
not
only
you
know
as
we're,
seeing
that
substations
are
coming,
but
how
we're
monitoring
the
use
that
they're
trying
to
meet
and
if
there's
any
reduction
in
the
use
that
they're
trying
to
meet
is
the
city
asking
that
there's
a
coming
back
to
the
table
about
whether
we
need
continue
to
need
the
substation?
Is
there
any
movement
in
the
administration
to
ask
about
other
ways
of
collecting
energy
solar
energy
that
would
help
meet
the
needs
of
neighborhoods
is?
Is
there
any
conversation
about
that.
G
C
L
To
your
comment
about
again,
the
agencies
working
together
we
had
flooding
in
Charlestown,
was
actually
pretty
far
away
from
the
waterway,
but
it
was
built
on
an
old
old
river.
That's
been
filled
in
and
and
one
of
the
hardest
things
was
trying
to
navigate
the
folks
in
Charlestown
between
the
city
and
the
be
Boston
Water
and
Sewer,
because
they
had
sewage
black
back
into
their
homes,
and
so
that
conversation
resulted
in
the
peak.
L
Basically,
everyone's
saying
nothing
we
can
do
and
I
would
really
love
to
continue
to
talk
with
the
city
about
that
conversation,
especially
with
Boston
water
and
sewage,
about
how,
when
there
is
a
package
of
sewage
into
someone's
home
due
to
flooding
how
the
city
could
be
holding
our
there,
Boston
or
partnering
with
them
to
make
sure
that
that
folks
aren't
just
left
with
that
sewage.
We.
L
L
L
Speaking
of
which,
looking
into
it
I
know
that
there
were
several
photos
of
flooding
in
the
North
End
that
were
sent
to
show
and
Charles
towns,
Navy
Yard
and
just
tell
me
through
that
process.
So
when
we
do
give
you
that
information
about
you
know
where
the
flooding
happened
and
the
use
of
the
pictures-
and
this
is
what
happened,
what
what
does
the
city
do?
We've.
D
Mapped
out
the
areas
that
are
flooded,
we're
overlaying
it
the
areas
that
did
flutter
or
within
the
floodplain,
so
the
buildings
that
have
been
impacted
qualify
for
flood
insurance,
but
also
assistance,
but
we're
really
just
understanding
where
the
flooding
occurred
and
what
the
impact
was
you
know
did
it
get
beyond
the
flood
elevation
of
the
building.
So
we've
asked
the
neighborhood
groups
to
provide
us
these
details
as
we
just
chronicled
the
impacts
and
had
a
next
level
of
response
and.
D
There
they're
proposing
an
elevation
of
at
least
40
inches
so
they're,
not
in
a
current
floodplain,
where
the
buildings
are
proposed.
But
this
would
address
the
future
flooding
risks
so
elevating
the
entire
profile
of
that
development
site
by
40
inches
to
be
protected,
but
we're
also
pushing
them
to
look
at
off-site
mitigation
efforts
that
not
only
protect
their
project,
but
the
neighborhood
they're,
relying
on
the
blue
line,
for
you,
know
a
big
mode
of
their
transportation
and
then
that
blue
line
station
and
area
of
track
is
vulnerable
now
to
flooding.
L
Also
I
think
this
is
a
wonderful
opportunity
for
the
city
to
take
leadership
as
we're
building
a
brand
new
section
of
a
neighborhood
to
really
implement
the
the
passive
house
or
Net
Zero
standards
from
the
ground
up
and
the
construction
materials
that
we
use
to
really
look
at
and,
as
councilor
blue
was
alluding
to
our
standards
and
actually
enforced.
How
we
actually
can
enforce
those
standards
on
new
development
as
well
I
think
it's
couldn't
think
of
a
better
opportunity.
Thank
you.
Thank.
I
Briefly,
thank
you,
madam
chair.
Thank
you
all
again
to
follow
up
on
a
point
that
councillor
willing,
counselor
is
just
echoed,
didn't
appreciate
the
point
about
balancing
the
affordability
aspect,
which
is
crucial.
We
all
think
with
with
standards
that
will
save,
could
potentially
save
houses.
I'd
urge
you
to
study
what's
been
happening
in
the
Commonwealth
of
Pennsylvania,
where
actually
been
able
to
use
a
model
of
passive
house
with
building
affordable
housing
and
affordable
homes.
It
has
been
tremendously
successful.
Moving
forward
to
us,
it
might
be
the
same
thing
here.
J
I
D
Term
we
are
one
smudge
District,
we're
actually
looking
at
those
opportunities
for
Glover's
Corner,
so
we're
doing
a
planning
process
for
Clovis
Corner,
that's
not
at
risk
for
for
coastal
flooding,
but
it's
a
basin
yeah
it
floods.
So
we're
looking
at
ways
to
build
out
that
neighborhood,
where
can
absorb
its
stormwater
and
not
deflect
it
to
other
neighborhoods
yeah
or
dump
it
into
the
system
Sophia.
We
are
familiar.
I
Yeah,
no,
it's
basically
says
it
sounds
sort
of
a
porous
foundation
that
captures
something
like
70
or
80
percent
of
the
rainwater
as
a
fall.
So
it
sounds
like
it
sounds
like
some
really
interesting.
Innovative
things
are
happening.
I
wonder.
Is
there
a
particular
city
or
state
that
has
really
sort
of
set
the
gold
standard
on
addressing
sort
of
these
things?
That.
D
We've
studied:
are
you
all
studying,
I?
Think
those
examples
in
China
where
they
have
dramatic
growth
and
density
are
good
examples
to
look
at.
They
also
have
a
lot
of
riverine
flooding
in
Glover's
Corner,
we're
looking
at
detention
basins,
but
also
hard
tanks
and
other
things
that
could
be
put
underground.
That
would
hold
the
water.
That's
not
during
extreme
precipitation
that
you
and.
I
C
I
B
You
and
I
want
to
thank
councilor,
asabi
George
for
being
here
as
well
chief,
any
questions.
Okay,
so
thank
you
to
our
panelists
feel
free
to
stay
in
the
audience.
If
you
have
a
chance,
I'm
gonna
take
a
few
minutes
of
public
testimony
before
we
move
to
our
second
panel.
But
thank
you
for
your
time.
Counselor.
Thank
you!
B
I
B
J
Name
is
Steve
Hollinger
I'm
a
27
year
resident
of
the
Fort
Point
neighborhood
of
Boston
South
Boston.
Thank
you
for
having
me
my
testimony
should
be
2
minutes
and
15
seconds.
I
timed
I
just
want
to
say
one
thing,
a
little
bit
of
pushback
on
what
the
BPD
a
said:
resilience
in
new
construction
isn't
pushing
floodwater
from
one
project
to
existing
buildings;
resilience.
In
other
words,
you
can't
put
a
building
on
a
mountain,
because
the
flood
water
and
the
storm
water
end
up
flowing
into
existing
buildings
need
to
understand
impermeable
hardscape
impermeable
surfaces.
J
That
can
absorb
floodwaters,
need
to
understand
storage
of
floodwater,
including
in
a
drainage
system.
A
lot
of
issues
evolve
we're
solving
those
problems
and
some
of
those
are
solved
without
a
lot
of
money,
but
they
require
a
lot
of
will
so
just
saying,
you're
gonna
put
Suffolk
Downs
on
a
mountain
he's
not
going
to
solve
anything
for
all
the
homeowners.
We're
gonna
be
dealing
with
floodwaters.
J
Much
of
the
flooding
experience
within
four
points.
Inland
properties
is
not
arriving
from
water
breaching
the
Flint
two-channel
seawall
flood
water
is
rising
from
four
points
drains,
both
publicly
and
privately
owned.
The
net
total
water
in
Fort
Point
includes
seawater
currently
from
storm
surge
and
storm
water
runoff
unable
to
drain
no
plans
for
addressing
back
flow
within
139
public
and
private
outfalls
have
been
presented
as
a
long-term
or
early
action
option
by
BT,
BDA
or
green
of
8,
as
of
March
2018.
So
I
would
suggest
you
not
just
private
prioritized
new
construction.
J
A
Lost
over
there,
so
I
think
I'm
far
enough
away.
I
can't
councillor
O'malley
and
flan
Edwards
and
McCarthy
I
will
email.
You
I'll
look
up
your
emails
on
the
city
website.
You
know
you
email
you
what
I'm
saying
here!
Thank
you
for
this
opportunity
to
address
you
again
speaking
for
the
five
hundred
plus
folks,
who
are
worth
looking
for
a
chance
to
compare
the
Boston
Transportation
Department's
design
to
the
northeastern
Peter.
First,
professor
Peter,
first
design
for
the
Rutherford
Avenue
corridor.
The
city's
design
features
a
rebuild
of
the
200
passes
currently
in
place
in
Charlestown.
A
The
current
underpass
at
Sullivan's
square
plus
with
regularity
and
with
rising
sea
levels.
Rutherford
Avenue
underpass
will
be
at
risk
too,
because
the
Avenue,
as
councillor
Edwards
pointed
out,
is
on
Phil's
land
over
the
old
Miller's
River
and
the
old
Middlesex
canal,
going
from
Charlestown
to
Lowell.
As
you
all
are
well
aware,
the
rcic
has
supported
a
surface
design
as
a
more
effective
and
flexible
design
for
moving
the
volume
of
traffic
now
and
expected
in
the
future.
We
have
done
so
in
part
because
under
passes
are
expensive
to
build.
A
A
Which
features
of
reduced
and
sized
underpass
and
a
better
surface
design
Street
design
under
passes
are
expensive
and
prone
to
flooding.
Therefore,
it
is
critical
that
the
very
carefully
constructed
they
be
very
carefully
constructed
to
avoid
flooding
endangering
evacuation
routes
and
I
believe
that
was
your
concern.
A
Center,
the
family
property
picture
demonstrates
clearly
the
need
for
the
Boston
Water
and
Sewer
Commission
and
the
Department
of
Public
Works
to
appoint
skilled
civil
engineers,
who
can
provide
a
vice
and
counsel
on
strategies
to
present
to
prevent
or
mitigate
such
conditions
for
those
homes
that
cannot
support
the
repairs
and
installation
of
devices
to
block
storm
drains
and
sewer
lines.
The
city
should
and
must
establish
a
revolving
loan
fund
or
grant
program
to
assist,
to
assist
these
homeowners
when
sewer
or
sea
level
back
up
into
their
homes.
Councillor
Eadie
Edwards
reference.
A
Some
of
that
happening
in
Charlestown
it
is
not
acceptable,
absolutely
not
acceptable
for
the
Boston,
Water
and
Sewer
Commission
to
say
we
can
do
nothing
here.
This
is
not
our
responsibility.
That
is
not
an
appropriate
response
from
a
city
agency.
Thank
you
again
for
this
opportunity
to
speak.
We
hope
that
you
were
listening
and
can
persuade
the
city
to
be
more
proactive
in
assisting
residents
in
flooding
conditions
and
to
be
more
engaged
in
consideration
of
a
careful
design
for
Rutherford
Avenue
Carter
laughing
Thank.
O
Good
afternoon
my
name
is
Jill
Valdez
I'm,
the
director
of
policy
for
Boston
Harbor.
Now
a
nonprofit
focused
on
optimizing,
the
public
benefits
of
Boston,
Harbor
and
Islands
by
ensuring
a
harbor
that
is
climate
resilient,
economically
thriving,
welcoming
and
accessible
to
all.
I
want
to
thank
madam
chair,
Wu
and
fellow
members
of
the
council
for
the
opportunity
to
speak
to
you
today
about
the
effects
of
coastal
inland
flooding
in
the
city
of
Boston.
O
Foreigner
Easter's
in
three
months
affirms
what
local
scientists
planners
and
advocates
have
been
cautioning
when
it
comes
to
decisions
about
flood
resilient
infrastructure
in
our
Harbor,
we
need
to
act
now.
Climate
data
tells
us
we're
gonna
get
hit
harder
more
often,
and
if
we
fail
to
plan
fund
and
implement
solutions
now,
it
will
take
us
longer
and
cost
more
to
recover
after
every
storm.
It's
not
an
exaggeration
to
say
that
the
future
of
Boston
depends
on
us
planning
for
these
issues.
O
Today,
Boston
Harbor
now
would
like
to
first
acknowledge
and
commend
mayor
Walsh
and
the
City
of
Boston
for
their
continued
leadership
on
climate
action
and
the
planning
work
completed
through
programs
like
climate
ready
Boston.
Second,
we
want
to
advocate
for
district-wide
solutions
to
protect
from
the
effects
of
climate
change,
not
just
Boston's
coasts,
but
also
vulnerable
inland
areas
and
populations,
the
Harbour
Islands,
the
working
port
and
neighboring
coastal
cities.
O
Finally,
we
offer
our
strong
support
for
a
funding
mechanism
that
addresses
near-term
resiliency
solutions,
as
well
as
long-term
and
large-scale
adaptation
projects.
We
cannot
continue
to
focus
solely
on
individual
buildings
and
parcel
by
parcel
strategies.
Our
infrastructure
is
as
important
as
our
buildings
and
we've
learned
from
recent
storms
that
streets
like
Atlantic
and
Seaport
Boulevard
and
the
aquarium
T
stop
prevented
access
to
buildings
that
were
otherwise
prepared
to
withstand
flooding.
O
The
development
of
climate
ready,
Boston
neighborhood
specific
solutions
proposed
a
number
of
multiple
benefit
projects
and
are
examples
of
the
kind
of
neighborhood
level
solutions
our
city
needs.
But
these
projects
need
proper
funding,
advocacy
groups,
foundations
and
the
private
sector
will
need
to
work
together
but
cannot
solve
this
problem
on
their
own.
We
need
civic
leaders
like
you
to
consider
options
that
will
create
the
funding
sources.
Our
city
needs
to
prepare
for
future
sea-level
rise
and
climate
change
from
creating
resilient
incentives
and
regulations
that
stick
to
buildings,
not
property
owners
to
large-scale
funding
bills.
O
We
should
look
to
other
coastal
cities
that
have
grappled
with
similar
funding
concerns,
for
example,
in
September
of
2016
Washington,
DC's
Water
and
Sewer
Authority
and
investors.
Goldman
Sachs
and
Calvert
foundation
issued
a
25
million
dollar
environmental
impact
bond
to
finance
a
construction
of
green
infrastructure
to
manage
stormwater
runoff,
the
first
of
its
kind.
The
bill
was
structured
to
limit
financial
arrests
to
DC
water.
If
the
performance
of
the
green
infrastructure
was
less
than
anticipated
and
financially
reward
investors.
If
the
performance
exceeded
expectations.
O
Last
October,
the
city
of
Miami,
approved
the
400
million
dollar
Miami,
forever
bond
bill,
the
bond
funds,
a
series
of
construction
projects
focused
on
preparing
and
protecting
the
city's
waterfront
and
community.
By
investing
a
total
of
192
million
dollars
on
flood
prevention
and
sea
level
rise,
the
bottom
line
is
and
to
address
councillor
Edwards
earlier
inquiry.
O
We
have
learned
from
an
independent
analysis
by
the
multi
Hazard
Mitigation
Council,
that
every
dollar
spent
on
mitigation
save
society
an
average
of
six
dollars
in
the
long
run,
one
of
Mayor
Walsh's
commitments
laid
out
in
the
climate
reti
Boston
report
is
to
ensure
that
climate
change
solutions
are
built
with
input
from
affected
communities
and
respond
to
their
needs.
In
order
to
address
the
regional
impacts
we
face
against
increased
storms
and
frequent
flooding.
O
Programs
like
DC
water
and
Miami
Forever
are
necessary
for
local
government
to
address
the
climate
change
issues
that
cities
and
communities
are
facing.
We
would
like
to
thank
the
council,
the
panelists
and
our
fellow
attendees
for
their
engagement
in
the
conversation
and
commitment
to
the
resiliency
of
our
coastal
city
and
surrounding
communities.
O
Boston
is
widely
recognized
as
a
leader
on
climate
action
and
now
is
the
time
to
continue
to
advance
our
leadership
even
further
Boston
Harbor,
now,
along
with
those
in
this
room
and
many
who
could
not
be
here
to
testify,
welcome
the
opportunity
to
work
together
toward
our
mutual
goal
of
protecting
and
preparing
our
city
for
a
future
that
will
continue
to
thrive
and
adapt
to
the
effects
of
climate
change.
Thank
you
for
your
time.
Thank.
K
Thank
You
Madame,
chair
woo
and
the
entire
student
Boston
City
Council
for
holding
this
important
hearing.
My
name
is
Amber
Kristofferson
I'm,
the
greenways
director
at
the
Mystic
River
watershed
association,
the
Mystic
River
watershed
association
is
a
nonprofit
organization
founded
in
1972.
Our
organization
represents
the
interests
of
more
than
500,000
residents
in
22
towns
and
cities.
K
Across
the
watershed
we
work
to
restore
water
quality
and
healthy
habitat,
protect
public
health
connect,
people
to
the
river
and
increase
resiliency
to
three
important
climate,
stressors
fluctuating
temperatures
and
heat
waves,
fluctuating
precipitation,
including
flash
floods
and
flash
droughts
and
finally,
coastal
flooding
and
sea
level
rise.
We
have
four
specific
concerns
related
to
the
Boston
neighborhoods,
located
in
the
lower
Mystic
River
Charlestown
and
East
Boston.
As
you
know,
these
low-lying
communities
are
some
of
Boston's,
most
vulnerable
environmental
justice
neighborhoods.
K
We
urge
the
city
to
raise
and
spend
the
bond
funding
needed
to
implement
the
full
climate,
ready,
Boston
vision
for
Charlestown
at
East
Boston.
Second,
we
are
concerned
about
toxic
releases
both
into
the
mystic
and
surrounding
neighborhoods
from
current
and
historic
industrial
sites
in
the
lower
Mystic.
Many
of
these
sites
lacks
sea
walls
or
bulkheads
were
effective
flood
controls
to
prevent
serious
toxic
chemical
releases
as
occurred
during
Hurricane
Harvey.
K
In
Houston,
we
asked
that
the
city
work
with
mass
DEP
and
the
owners
of
these
industrial
sites
and
brownfields
to
prevent
toxic
releases
and
bank
erosion
that
could
contaminate
surrounding
neighborhoods
and
the
Boston
Harbor.
Third,
we
are
concerned
about
planking
of
the
amelia
earhart
dam
that
would
result
in
the
filling
of
upstream
neighborhoods
with
saltwater
flooding.
K
We
asked
that
the
city
work
with
Somerville
and
Everett
and
the
six
abutting
property
owners
downstream
from
the
dam
to
prevent
storm
surges
from
flanking
the
dam
and
caught
in
catastrophic
saltwater
flooding
in
upstream
neighborhoods
of
these
properties
for
in
the
process
of
elevating
their
properties,
the
wind
casino,
the
MBTA
bus
maintenance
facility,
D
CRS,
draw
seven
park
and
the
shaft
Center.
We
do
not
believe
that
the
other
two
property
owners,
the
Elan
mystic
generation
generating
station
powerplant
and
the
Gateway
Center
mall
owned
by
Dede
RC,
have
current
plans
to
do
so.
K
Finally,
flood
management
products
are
expensive
because
they
spend
money
in
the
short
term
in
order
to
protect
the
city
from
damage
in
the
future,
cost-benefit
analyses
asked
often
come
out
negative.
That
is
because
of
discount
rates.
The
costs
are
shown
as
larger
than
the
benefits
in
order
to
make
the
most
of
every
dollar
spent.
These
flood
management
projects
need
to
be
designed
to
provide
multiple
benefits,
as
Jill
mentioned,
such
as
recreational
open
space
bike
paths,
water
quality
improvements,
and/or
restored
habitat.
These
multiple
benefits
also
provide
the
cost-benefit
calculations
needed
to
secure
public
funding.
K
B
And
I
believe:
when
do
you
have
to
leave
shortly
right
and
is
there
was
there
another
okay?
So
again,
apologies
are
charged
from
our
council
presidents
to
make
sure
that
we're
interspersing
testimony
from
the
public
throughout
so
folks
aren't
waiting
three
hours
until
the
end.
So
I
appreciate
your
patience.
Why
don't
we
start
with
Wendy,
then
we'll
hear
your
testimony,
your
statement
and
maybe
take
any
questions
and
then
do
the
same
for
David
and
then
I
think
we
might
have
both
have
a
little
bit
more
time.
Yes,.
P
P
P
Sure
Wendy
goldsmith,
dr.
Wendy
goldsmith
with
the
Center
for
urban
watershed
resilience,
I've
been
involved
for
25
years
in
development
of
policy
and
oversight
of
engineering
programs
in
and
around
the
Boston
area
in
Massachusetts,
and
most
notably
after
both
hurricanes,
Katrina
and
Sandy,
hit
in
New,
Orleans
and
New
York
metro
area,
so
I've
been
involved
in
the
policy
and
the
practice
and
have
recently
been
working
on
a
series
of
European
insurance
consortium,
funded
projects
and
programs
to
define
what
climate
resilience
means
in
a
way
that
matters
to
the
underwriters
of
major
insurance
policies.
P
Although
that's
by
no
means
a
settled
matter,
it's
getting
closer
and
it's
always
very
site-specific
and
goals
specific
as
well.
So
going
back
to
the
issues
that
have
been
affecting
some
neighborhoods
around
Boston,
you
know
there
there's
an
issue
that
stormwater
pipes
work
both
ways.
Old
infrastructure
doesn't
often
meet
the
known
or
intended
design
function.
You
know
there
are
often
condition
issues
or
illicit
connection
issues
that
cause
water
to
get
into
or
leak
out
of
a
pipe
in
ways
that
were
not
anticipated.
P
This
leads
to
the
finger-pointing
and
non
accountability
issues
that
are
often
a
very
real
and
pernicious
problem
for
property
owners.
I
want
to
suggest
that
some
of
the
bolder
more
comprehensive
issues
that
have
been
on
the
table
for
many
years
in
Boston,
well
I'm,
not
a
fan
that
somehow
a
barrier
is
the
be-all
and
end-all
system,
doing
anything
less
than
a
comprehensive
type
of
system,
usually
one
that
consists
of
multiple
lines
of
defense
and
multiple
redundant
strategies.
Those
are
what
work
out
best.
P
Comprehensively
came
up
with
some
flexibly
operable
barriers
that
could
be
open
and
closed
pumps
that
could
be
operated
this
way
or
that
way
areas
to
store
flood
water,
flood
water
from
the
ocean,
flood
water
from
rainfall
and
river
flooding.
You
know
all
of
these
things
had
to
work
together,
so
you've
got
the
idea
of
networks
and
systems
and
how
it
all
plays
together
in
both
the
scripted
and
intentional
ways,
and
also
the
unscripted
and
surprising
ways.
So
these
are
things
I
think
have
been.
P
P
P
Others
have
said
it
as
well
that
this
idea
of
the
standard
financial
yeah,
the
standard
benefit
cost
analysis
does
a
heavy
future.
Based
discounting.
You
know
they
assume.
Okay,
the
cost
is
what
it
is
today
and
as
for
the
the
supposed
benefits
we're
going
to
apply
some
accounting
discount
rate,
that
always
makes
those
financial
benefits
seem
perhaps
to
pale
by
comparison
with
the
cost.
Meanwhile,
cities
like
Houston
find
themselves
feeling
very
Pennywise
and
pound-foolish
when
the
full
tally
of
implications
comes
home
to
roost.
P
That
balance,
how
to
define
which
of
the
many
multifunctional
attributes
are
actually
valuable
to
the
community,
and
some
of
these
things
are
not
things
that
have
a
financial
value.
That's
readily
apparent.
You
know
in
Detroit,
for
instance,
somebody
probably
had
some
type
of
cost-benefit
analysis,
I,
don't
know,
and
it's
a
very
politically
fraught
situation,
but
you
know
they
probably
spent
some
money
on
water
infrastructure
that
saved
a
few
bucks
here
and
there.
But
at
what
cost?
You
know,
maybe
you
can't
monetize
the
health
of
your
your
population
and
its
children
in
particular.
P
But
when
it
comes
to
a
disaster,
you
have
the
direct
and
indirect
flood
impacts.
You
don't
only
have
the
flooded
property,
but
you
have
business
interruption.
You
have
people
who
decide
not
to
come
back
and
invest
in
a
city
that
has
issues
on
Houston's
facing
this
Miami's
facing
this
New
Orlean
New
Orleans
seems
to
be
on
the
rebound.
P
The
city
is
also
already
aware
that
Moody's
announced
late
last
year
that
they
want
everyone
put
on
notice
that
they
now
require
climate
change
considerations
to
be
part
of
they're
looking
at
it
and
they
have
been
looking
at
it.
They're.
Just
communicating
to
folks
who
seek
public
finance
that
you
know
you
have
to
be
prepared
to
justify
that.
What
you're
seeking
has
a
reasonable
basis,
based
on
the
known
climate
forecasts
and.
P
You
know
it's
interesting
a
lot
of
the
cities.
There
are
examples
where
city
guidance
and
private
investment
on
a
parcel
by
parcel
basis
have
yielded
some
good
results.
The
Center
for
urban
watershed
resilience
worked
closely
with
the
Bloomberg
administration
and
others
to
try
to
kick-start
what
what
I
believe
would
have
been
a
first
of
kind
program
to
have
a
public-private
partnership
and
to
even
get
the
insurance
industry
involved
in
making
some
financial
investments
they
have
to
invest
their
money
to
anyway.
P
There
are
different
ways
to
both
to
get
buy-in
from
the
insurance
industry
and
the
reinsurance
sector
to
not
only
contribute
partially
to
the
financing
of
some
regional
scale
infrastructure
resilience
measures,
but
also
to
reflect
that
in
some
of
the
public
and
private
insurance
programs.
You
know
the
community
rating
system
is
a
very
important
and
often
underutilized
program
to
help
make
the
federal
insurance
and
that
the
the
federal
flood
insurance
program
work
better
at
the
community
scale.
P
But
in
addition
to
that,
you
know
what
really
drives
the
economy
of
a
city
is
going
to
be
a
lot
of
the
private
investment
and
the
private
corporate
insurance.
That
you
know
manages
risk
for
businesses,
so
you
have
to
speak
to
those
parties
as
well,
and
it's
important
to
get
them
involved.
The
insurance
companies
that
support
risk
management
for
the
corporations.
Thank.
B
Q
Q
We
do
need
to
balance
the
expected
costs
of
inaction
of
doing
nothing,
the
floods,
the
damage
that
gets
caused
with
the
costs
of
building
out
resilience,
NOAA
just
came
out
with
a
figure
that
the
climate
weather-related
disasters
last
year
cost
over
300
billion.
It's
a
it's
a
record
amount,
and
so
we
are
in
a
new
normal
where
what
we
used
to
think
of
as
a
100-year
flood
we
don't
know
now
is
a
20-year
flood
or
a
30-year
flood,
but
we
are
certainly
going
to
be
seeing
more
damage,
as
we
saw
in
Boston.
Q
I
haven't
yet
seen
numbers
for
how
much
the
two
storms
in
January
in
February
cost
in
Boston
and
another
point
to
make
here
is
that
Massachusetts
and
Boston
is
thriving
in
a
low-carbon
economy,
meaning
that,
as
we
shift
towards
a
low-carbon
economy,
there
are
a
lot
of
employment
opportunities
and
if
we
think
wisely
about
the
tens,
hundreds
potentially
billions
of
dollars
we're
going
to
have
to
spend
over
several
decades
in
resilience.
If
we
do
it
wisely,
we
can
address
equity,
improve
infrastructure,
housing
access
to
employment
in
healthcare,
and
but
that
has
to
be
planned.
Q
The
climate
ready,
Boston
reports,
I
can't
go
through
them.
Now,
don't
have
the
time
but
set
the
tone
for
this
ranges
of
sea
level
rise
are
going
to
make
things
worse.
Over
the
decades.
The
climate
ready,
Boston
reports
target
a
36-inch
towards
the
end
of
the
century
of
the
sea
level
rise,
but
we're
already
hearing
figures
of
more
like
four
feet
towards
six
or
even
seven
feet.
Q
So
the
36
inches
is
a
maybe
even
a
modest
scenario
that
we
have
to
plan
for
increases
in
in
extreme
heat,
related
illnesses
and
death
and
maybe
most
relevant
for
today,
the
annual
once
we
get
to
a
36
inch
sea
level
rise
scenario,
we're
talking
about
an
annualized
costs
of
at
least
one
and
a
half
a
billion
dollars.
You
can,
you
can
see
that's
damage
to
buildings,
damage
to
contents
and
lost
business.
I
tend
to
think
these
are
very
conservative
estimates.
Q
When
you
dig
into
the
methodology
some
of
the
big
costs
that
we're
going,
we
might
need
to
be
thinking
about
in
terms
of
resilience
the
harbor
barrier
study.
We
can't
yet
talk
about
cost.
These
are
very
broad
scenarios
that
will
be
released
fairly
soon,
but
order
of
magnitude
this
putting
8
to
15
billions
and
we
were
saying
10
to
20
billion
the
other
picture.
Q
South
Boston
could
be
a
lot
more
again.
Numbers
aren't
officially
a
report
reported,
but
it
could
be
we're
looking
closer,
perhaps
to
a
half
a
billion
on
the
high
end
downtown
Boston
again
it
could
be
quite
similar,
so
estimates
and
again
it's.
These
are
broad
scenarios
I'm
not
allow
to
say
humpers,
and
these
are
drafts,
and
so
we
have
to
be
careful
with
what
we
say,
but
somewhere
in
this
sort
of
one
to
two
and
a
half
billion
range.
You
know
where
we
talk
about
phasing
over.
Q
How
many
decades
is
a
little
unclear,
but
these
are
very
significant
numbers
and
Boston
won't
be
able
to
support
all
of
this
itself,
with
its
current
tax
base
a
little
hard
to
see
this,
but
this
is
a
just
a
diagram
of
the
phasing
of
different
specific
investments
needed
in
East
Boston.
When
you
look
around
the
East
Boston
perimeter,
this
isn't
going
backwards.
Yeah.
When
you
look
around
the
East
Boston
perimeter,
there's
a
whole
bunch
of
parcels.
Some
of
them
are
private.
Q
Some
are
might
be
redeveloped,
so
the
financing
opportunities
for
each
of
these
are
a
little
different,
some
some
of
a
public
land
elevation
of
roads.
So
we
have
to
look
at
the
whole
perimeter
and
think
about
almost
parcel
by
parcel.
Will
it
be
redeveloped
in
the
next
five
years?
How
much
will
the
private
owners
be
able
to
put
in
how
if
it's
is
it
a
retrofit
that
might
be
more
expensive?
Is
it
public
land?
Some
of
it
is
mass
water
and
mass
waters
are
already
committed
to
to
elevate
and
protect
some
of
those
areas?
Q
So
you
know
each
area
is
complex
and
is
going
to
need
a
much
deeper
dive
into
the
parcels
and
the
perimeter
that
make
that
up
the
as
we
invest
in
this
in
these
areas.
We
have
to
acknowledge
that
climate
change
itself
is
going
to
exacerbate
vulnerabilities
of
various
neighborhoods,
the
poorer
neighborhoods,
the
vulnerable
minorities
in
some
of
these
areas
already
have
lower
insurance,
poor
financial
resources
in
terms
of
their
ability
to
recover
less
access
to
health
care
and
transportation.
Q
Fairness
in
terms
of
people
paying
in
relation
to
the
protection
that
they're
getting
that
sounds
fair,
but
might
not
always
be
equitable,
because
low-income
neighborhoods
simply
might
not
be
able
to
afford
to
pay
the
amount
of
protection.
That's
needed.
So
fairness
and
equity-
sometimes
intention
here-
and
this
don't
seem
to
be
moving
on
here
by
itself.
Q
There
some
key
recommend
recommendations
from
the
report
too
many
to
go
through
in
the
short
time
I
have
have
available,
but
a
key
aspect
is
using
multiple
layers,
just
as
we
need
multiple
layers
of
resilience,
we
need
multiple
layers
of
funding
from
federal
sources,
from
state
City
and
from
resilience
districts,
and
the
principle
here
is
that
the
closer
you
get
to
being
very
directly
protected
in
a
resilient
district.
You
ought
to
have
to
pay
a
little
bit
more,
but
on
the
other
hand,
everybody
needs
to
pay.
Q
We
need
to
need
to
recognize
that
Boston
is
the
economic
engine
of
the
city
and
if
Airport
goes
down,
the
center
of
the
city
goes
down.
The
whole
of
Massachusetts
is
affected
and,
of
course,
that
we
have
to
tap
federal
funding
to
the
extent
that
it
is
available.
We
need
to
be
able
to
leverage
incentives.
We
talked
about
public-private
partnerships.
One
of
the
best
ways
to
mobilize
private
capital
is
to
have
risk-based
insurance
so
that
private
property
owners
do
have
the
incentive
to
upgrade
their
own
properties.
Q
As
we
have
these
district
level
neighborhood
solutions,
things
like
the
CRS
FEMA's
CRS,
that's
going
to
give
private
property
owners
discounts.
There
have
to
be
methods
of
value
capture
because
it's
going
to
be
the
city
and
state
that
are
bearing
the
costs
and
private
property
owners
who
are
bearing
the
benefits,
sometimes
in
terms
of
the
the
reduced
insurance
cost.
So
obviously
we
need
to
be
looking
at
value,
recapture
mechanisms
just
establishing
these
districts
and
at
the
building
level.
Q
We're
proposing
as
well
expect
expanding
something
like
the
mass
save
program
from
energy
efficiency
to
resilience,
so
small
charge,
small
surcharges
on
water
bills
on
perhaps
because
it's
more
infrastructure
based
than
energy
based
could
potentially
fund
an
equivalent
program
of
assessments,
audits
and
assistance
with
upgrades
they're
on
to
the
next
one.
It's
if
this.
Q
Yeah,
this
is
a
she'll
be
taken
as
a
just
a
broad
scenario
of
a
payment
with
the
feds,
maybe
paying
a
bit
less
than
they
have
in
the
past,
for
the
Big
Dig
they
paid
50%,
maybe
paying
a
little
less
in
the
future
for
reasons
that
outlined.
Who
knows
how
long
the
current
administration
will
be
there
and
what
the
financial
implications
will
be,
but
between
federal,
the
state
level,
potentially
other?
You
know
there
are
some
proposals
at
the
state
level
for
a
carbon
tax.
Q
Another
option
might
be
expanding
funding
through
Reggie
the
cap-and-trade
system,
but
taxing
carbon
one
way
or
another
does
mean
that
you
are
taxing.
Economists
like
this,
because
it's
comically
efficient
right,
it's
putting
a
price
on
carbon
in
order
to
pay
for
the
problems
that
excess
carbon
emissions
are
causing.
We're
also
suggesting
I
mean
again
this.
This
is
a
scenario
shouldn't
be
taken
as
anything
specific
or
binding,
and
we
are
not
an
official.
This
isn't
also
an
official
city
of
Boston
reports,
it's
generously
funded
by
the
Bar
Foundation,
but
between
the
city
and
the
district.
Q
Only
around
half
of
properties,
I
understand
or
maybe
60%
of
properties
in
Boston
are
subject
to
property
taxes,
whereas
water
is
more
equitable
in
terms
of
its
usage,
water
and
sewer,
and
a
lot
of
this
is
going
to
be
about
extreme
precipitation
as
well,
and
you
know
what
these
numbers
indicate
as
well.
As
that
you
know
you
can't
get
away
from
paying
for
this.
Q
That
can,
of
course,
believe
who
are
leveraged
for
resilience,
but
these
neighborhood
district
level
upgrades
are
on
top
of
that
I
think
I'll
leave
it.
There
just
want
to
end
again
there's
a
one
last
slide,
which
this
isn't
moving
on.
Just
from
the
massive
Clean
Energy
Center,
showing
you
know,
a
hundred
thousand
jobs
in
Boston
and
from
clean
energy,
nearly
eight
thousand
firms
that
this
sector
has
been
booming
by
about
ten
percent
year
for
faster
than
the
regular
economy,
even
through
the
depression,
the
recession
here.
Q
B
B
You
mentioned
the
potential
of
surcharge
on
the
water
bill
as
a
way
through
small
but
sort
of
widespread
assessments
to
a
massive
funding
source
and
from
what
I
have
heard
other
cities
in
Europe
that
do
this
very
well
also
have
a
similar
structure
where
there's
a
separate
Water
Authority.
That
kind
of
is
in
some
ways
insulated
from
political
cycles.
It's
a
quasi
independent
authority
and
has
charge
over
the
water
infrastructure
in
Massachusetts
and
in
Boston.
B
Q
Yes,
I'm
not
really
that
qualified
to
speak
about
the
governance
side
of
this
and
the
various
authorities
that
exist
mass
water,
yes,
MWRA,
there
are
models
where
a
water
authority
can
be
expanded
to
cover
both
extreme
precipitation.
You
know
flooding
from
salt,
water
and
from
extreme
precipitation.
Q
There
are
other
models
where
the
water
authority
is
about
fresh
water
supplies
as
well
as
flooding,
but
only
fresh
water
flooding.
So
there
are,
there
are
various
models:
westco's
water
off
authorities
and
in
some
areas
where
those
water
authorities
also
provide
insurance.
So
across
Europe
there
there
is
a
lot
to
learn
from
the
UK
and
elsewhere
about
the
way
that
a
Water
Authority
could
be
structured
and
whether
that
authority
is
the
same
as
the
financing
Authority
it
could.
That
can
potentially
be
a
separate
financing
Authority
at
the
Metro
regional
level.
Q
I
think
one
of
the
lessons
we
have
learned
is
that
we
have
a
bit
of
a
deficit
of
governance
right
at
the
neighborhood
level,
whether
you
know
East
Boston,
you
know.
Obviously
we
have
the
city,
but
also
at
the
metro,
regional
level,
that
eastern
Massachusetts,
you
know
somewhere
in
between
the
state
and
the
city.
The
the
region
does
has
some
coordinating
mechanisms,
but
not
really
governance
and
finance
mechanisms.
So
we've
identified
that
I
wouldn't
say
we
have
specific
solutions
and.
Q
You
know
looking
parcel
by
parcel
and
developing
a
plan
that
aligns
redevelopment
plans
with
with
a
neighborhood
plan
and
then
thinking
about
the
spread
between
federal
state
and
city
level,
funding
and
district
level
funding
and
developing
some
scenarios
and
getting
buy-in.
This
is
a
it's
significant
money
and
it's
going
to
be
reach
angel
city
for
the
for
this,
the
rest
of
the
century.
So
it's
a
big
job.
I
Echo
your
approach,
professors,
you
talk
about
regional
coordination
and
one
of
the
things
that
sort
of
struck
me
going
through
that
very
informative
slideshow
was,
you
know
a
conservative,
a
relatively
conservative
estimates
now
suggest
that
the
sea
level
could
rise
three
feet
or
more
by
the
turn
of
the
century.
I
won't
be
there,
but
a
lot
of
people
who
are
alive
today
will
be
there
then
and
I
think
Logan
Airport
will
be
underwater.
I
If
that
happens
so
to
include
I
know,
mass
port
has
done
some
good
things,
but
to
include
them
in
this
conversation
you
know
when
South
Boston
floods
chances
are
Quincy
is
gonna
flood.
When
you
know
Revere
who
an
East
Boston
floods,
chance
of
Rivera's
gonna
flood.
So
have
you
seen
any
model
of
other
states
that
maybe
look
I?
Guess
it
would
be
the
state
government
that
would
help
coordinate
sort
of
plan
than
green
and
gray
infrastructure
and
and
perhaps
building
some
sort
of
levees
or
building
some
sort
of
wall?
I
Q
I,
don't
know
about
a
gold
standard,
I
mean
Miami
is
certainly
well
advanced
on
on
this,
and
but
the
the
fragmented
nature
of
authority
in
American
governance
is
always
a
challenge.
So
it's
going
to
take
more
coordination
between
city
and
state
I
think
the
city
is
probably
going
to
be
leading
it
here,
but
you
know
somebody
mentioned
the
Charles
River
Dam
and
that
affects
Cambridge
and
other
other
cities
here
so
ways
for
to
coordinate
their
funding
and
and
planning.
Q
I
That's
helpful
that
I
would
just
say
you
know
I
wonder
if,
in
this
is
some
of
a
rhetorical
question,
a
majority
are
close
to
a
majority
of
land
in
the
city.
Is
tax
exempt
and
we
have,
as
you
know-
and
you
know,
many
of
your
associations
fall
under
it.
Pay
payment
move
taxes,
but
I
would
argue
that
the
nonprofit's,
many
of
whom
have
actually
stepped
up
in
the
healthcare
field-
Boston
Medical
Center's,
the
gold
steer
and
they're
gonna,
be
passive
by
the
air
they'll
be
zero-carbon
by
the
end
of
this
calendar
year.
I
Maybe
there's
an
opportunity
here
to
sort
of
redress
the
questions
with
these
nonprofits,
these
huge
expansive
institutions
to
make
sure
that
we
can
help
offset
some
of
the
costs
and
just
not
put
it
all
on
business
and
in
residents.
So
I
think
that's
a
tough
conversation
that
we
need
to
have
that's.
Q
Right
and
I
think
you
know
labeling.
This
is
a
resilience
fee
at
some
level
and
tying
it
into
other
metrics
like
water,
sewer,
usage,
stormwater
impervious
services
as
a
way
to
spread
it
out
and
to
and
to
potentially
get
at
that.
But
I
think
there
are
private
builders.
You
talk
to
folks
at
Boston
properties
that
the
people
who
build
and
hold
their
properties
for
a
longer
time
recognize
the
value
in
resilient
that
they
will
internalize
some
of
that
value
themselves
and
that
they
claim
to
be
renting
out
buildings
and
LEED
Platinum
buildings.
Q
I
F
L
Or
noting
the
disparities
in
race
and
in
class
and
resiliency
often
times
very
communities
that
have
not
had
infrastructure
investment
for
years,
who
are
the
first
ones
to
face?
Not
only
are
they
vulnerable
but
than
they
are
particularly
almost
in
louisville
zuv
it
it's
almost
impossible
to
bounce
back
from
being
able
to
from
having
dealt
with
flooding
or
having
dealt
with
some
climate
change
issues.
So
I
really
appreciate
you,
noting
that
in
your
financial
analysis,
I
know,
I
went
down
to
Gulfport
Mississippi
after
Hurricane
Katrina
hit
and
that
entire
area
was
basically
wiped
out.
L
No
one
had
the
flood
insurance
and
there
was
no
infrastructure
investment,
and
so
we
don't
want
that
kind
of
disparity
here
in
Boston,
so
I
think
again,
I
just
had
to
say
thank
you
for
bringing
that
up,
but
I
also,
you
are
just
ending
on
the
ROI.
The
return
on
investment
that
I
think
that
really
is
most
important
is
key
to
our
financial
analysis.
About
resiliency
we
had
I
had
the
pleasure
of
visiting
one
of
our
passive
house
or
passive
homes
here
in
Boston
and
I.
L
Think
the
owner,
or
one
of
the
residents
mentioned
at
the
ROI,
was
as
high
as
21
percent
with
using
solar
energy.
So
there's
a
certain
amount
of
not
just
responding
the
cost
to
that,
but
how
much
money
we
could
be
losing
in
terms
of
of
money
that
we
could
be
making
and
generating
just
by,
and
you
know,
investing
in
infrastructure
that
it's
going
to
pay
us
back
and
so
I
I
do
you
have?
Did
you
have
more
comments
about
that?
Or
do
you
does
your
analysis
on?
The
third
include
more
ROI
analysis.
Yes,.
Q
It
does
in
the
report,
does
have
a
section
on
return
on
investments
at
the
building
level
to
some
degree
at
the
the
district
level.
There
are
some
numbers,
but
it
does
have
to
be
said
that
the
return
on
investment
for
resilience
isn't
nearly
as
good
as
for
energy
efficiency
right.
The
case
is
very
clear
for
any
energy
efficiency
that
you
save
the
oil,
the
gas
that
you
save.
Q
Whereas
for
for
resilience,
you
might
be
saving
millions
down
the
road
if,
when,
if
and
when
the
disaster
hits
but
but
the
the
ROI
is
a
little
less
clear,
you'll
see
the
numbers
of
the
benefit.
Cost
ratios
for
the
hut
for
a
harbor
vary
proposal
are
more
marginal,
depending
on
what
interest
rates
you
use,
for
example.
So
that's
why
there
is
this
need
for
value
capture
and
for
public
money
as
well
make.
L
N
Just
two
very
quick
questions,
I
hope,
they're
they're,
quick
in
your
presentation.
You
do
talk
about
selective
investments
in
particular
neighborhoods,
but
if
we're
not
looking
at
the
whole
the
whole
coast
of
the
City
of
Boston,
obviously
the
neighboring
towns,
north
and
south,
don't
we
put
greater
pressure
on
those
neighborhoods?
We're
not
including
so
will
that
further
report
include?
You
know
the
communities
of
Dorchester
into
Hyde
Park,
which
are
also
inland
but
still
on
river
ways.
Mm-Hmm.
Q
South
Boston
is
is
well
underway.
I
know,
there's
gonna
be
a
report
on
downtown.
There
are
other
neighborhoods
that
are
at
risk.
I
think
that
the
idea
is
to
target
the
highest
priority.
Neighborhoods
bad
misses
here
and
might
be
able
to
address
that
at
some
point.
The
the
plans
for
other
neighborhoods
and
ones
exposed
to
extreme
precipitation
as
well.
But,
yes,
I,
think
people
are
well
aware
of
the
pathways
and
sometimes
indirect
and
unexpected
pathways
by
which
water
can
come
into
other
neighborhoods
and.
N
H
M
Q
You
know,
maybe
towards
the
end
of
the
century,
we'll
be
getting
there,
but
I
think
that
you
know
a
neighborhood
approaches
make
sense
right
now,
when
you
look
at
the
flood
maps,
the
flooding
is
mostly
local,
although
by
the
time
you
get
towards
the
end
of
the
century,
it
is
coming
right
into
Boston
and
High
Park,
as
you
say,
but
it
has.
We
have
to
stage
as
an
incremental
approach
here.
We
need
to
know
where
we
building
to
two
or
three
feet.
Are
we
building
to
six
or
seven
feet?
Q
Q
B
You
at
this
point,
I'm
gonna,
consolidate
so
I
want
to
ask
the
other
panelists
to
fill
in
and
we'll
do
everyone
together,
councillor
George
during
here
too
so
we're
going
to
be
joined
by
Magdalena,
Ayad,
Deanna,
Maran
and
bud
risks,
as
formerly
mentioned,
enabled
fill
in
around
J
Wickersham
and
Peter
Richardson.
So
J
and
Peter
both
affiliated
with
the
Boston
society
of
Architects
Oh.
R
B
Engineer,
sorry,
my
notes
are
wrong.
Okay,
great
wonderful,
so
we'll
give
one
minute
for
people
to
get
settled
and
then,
but
do
you
like
being
over
there?
We
can
also
squeeze
it
over
here.
If
you,
okay,
okay,
perfect,
so
either
J
or
Peter.
Why
don't
we
start
with
you
two
and
then
we'll
hear
from
everyone
else
and
then
we'll
take
questions
as
a
group.
R
Here
in
that
capacity
today
to
represent
BSEE,
we
have
approximately
4,000
members
in
Massachusetts
and
we're
one
of
the
leading
sections
of
the
American
Society
of
Civil
Engineers,
which
has
approximately
a
hundred
and
fifty
thousand
members
worldwide.
And
for
the
past
two
decades
the
American
Society
of
Civil
Engineers
has
been
issuing
a
national
infrastructure
report
card
every
four
years
to
raise
awareness
about
the
infrastructure
deficiencies
in
our
country.
R
However,
in
order
for
these,
these
plans
to
be
successful,
successful
they
need
to
be
implemented
and
to
be
implemented
will
require
increased
investment
that
will
likely
need
to
come
from
sources
other
than
the
federal
government,
at
least
for
the
near
future.
So
I
want
to
thank
you
for
this
opportunity
to
be
here
today
and
I'll.
Try
to
respond
any
questions
and
I
just
want
also
want
to
offer
that
the
Boston
society
civil
engineers
is
the
oldest
engineering
society
in
the
country
founded
in
1848,
and
we
here
as
a
resource
for
the
city.
Okay.
R
S
S
S
You
know
our
members
are
working
on
some
of
the
best
projects
around
the
country
and
around
the
world,
and
that's
experience
and
expertise
that
we're
very
interested
in
sharing
with
the
city
and
and
all
the
stakeholders
here,
I'm
going
to
actually
listening
to
the
other
other
testimony,
I'll
kind
of
modify.
What
I
was
going
to
say
because
I
think
it's
very
encouraging
to
hear
how
much
consensus
there
is
on
key
key
issues
here.
So
I'll
just
kind
of
hit
upon
a
few
key
points,
and
then
we
can
maybe
go
to
the
questions
you
know.
S
Clearly,
2018
is
going
to
be
a
year
of
enormous
information
with
the
South
Boston
study
being
completed,
the
harbor
barrier
study
and
the
and
governance
studies,
and
so
on
that
information.
The
BSA
would
like
to
make
this
a
year
of
decision
making
and
of
action.
And
what
do
we
do
with
this
information?
And
maybe
three
three
P
points
I
want
to
make.
You
know
the
first
again,
as
others
have
said,
is
the
business
case
for
investing
in
resiliency.
You
know
we've
heard
about
some
of
the
cost-benefit
ratios.
S
We
also
know
about
the
cost
of
inaction
when
New
York
City
was
hit
by
Hurricane
sandy
in
2012,
they
suffered
nineteen
billion
dollars
in
property
damage
in
the
city
alone,
and
fifty-three
people
died.
Now
those
are
the
costs
of
inaction
that
we
need
to
offset
I.
Think
also
from
the
business
perspective.
Not
only
is
Boston
the
economic
engine
of
Massachusetts,
we
are
also
an
export
economy
and
the
expertise
that
we
develop
and
that
we
can
develop
here
by
making
Boston
a
national
and
an
international
leader
in
adapting
to
sea
level.
S
Rise
and
resiliency
will
give
rise
to
skills
and
expertise
that
are
going
to
be
in
demand
worldwide,
so
so
they're
in
that
way
too.
This
is
very
much
an
investment
in
our
future.
I
think.
The
second
point
is
to
make
sure
that
resiliency
is
an
exercise
in
community
building,
as
I
think
we've
heard
very
eloquently.
You
know
we
need
to
make
sure
that
we
build
upon
what
we've
learned
in
how
to
make
a
vibrant
and
a
just
city.
S
We've
done
enormous
work
in
Boston
in
30
years
to
restore
and
reconnect
with
the
harbor
we've
we've
repaired,
the
ecological
systems
we've
made
the
harbor
swimmable
again,
and
we've
made
the
Harbor
walk
a
true
public
meeting
place,
and
so,
as
we
look
at
resiliency,
we
need
to
build
upon
that.
We
need
to
make
whatever
we
build
equally
kind
of
democratic
meeting
places
and
not
systems
that
wall
out
at
the
harbor
or
that
build
walls
between
communities
and
I.
Think
to
that
point,
NOAA's
councilor
Edwards
was
just
making
that
point.
S
Issues
of
equity
need
to
be
really
sent
roll
to
our
investments.
Government
investments
in
particular
need
to
be
targeted
for
the
communities
that
are
most
at
risk
and
most
needed
the
help
and
the
the
final
point,
and
is
that
of
the
importance
as
part
of
any
thinking
about
governance,
is
thinking
about
regulation
and
in
particular
about
our
building
codes
and
our
zoning
codes.
So
these
are
the
baseline.
S
This
is
where
government
sets
the
rules
for
how
to
protect
the
public
safety,
Health
and
Welfare
I
think
it
was
very
encouraging
to
hear
rich
McGinnis
talk
about
the
work
that's
being
done
in
the
city
with
the
zoning
code
and
that's
going
to
be
critical.
Equally
critical
is
the
State
Building
Code.
We
do
not
control
that
unilaterally,
but
there
is
a
very,
very
important
effort
and
the
city
really
can
take
a
leadership
role
along
with
everyone
else
here
in
pressuring
the
state
to
adopt.
S
You
know
the
best
standards
when
it
comes
to
looking
at
the
State
Building
Code,
looking
at
ways
that
that
too
can
build
in
knowledge
not
just
looking
backwards,
but
looking
forwards.
What
science
is
telling
us
about
what
we're
going
to
have
to
build
for
over
the
next
30
to
50
years?
So
again,
I
want
to
thank
you
for
the
chance
to
speak
or
we're
going
to
be
submitting
a
written
comments
to
the
council
and
we're
happy
to
I.
Take
questions.
Thank.
T
You
counselors
for
having
me
here
today
and
we're
holding
this
hearing
I'll
just
echo.
You
know
J
sentiments
that
it's
encouraging
that
there
seems
to
be
very
broad
consensus
that
climate
change
is
having
a
you
know,
an
enormous
impact
on
the
severe
in
frequency
of
weather
events
in
the
city,
as
demonstrated
by
the
recent
storms,
and
that
many
of
Boston's
neighborhoods
are
increasingly
vulnerable
to
flooding
at
the
city
testified
to
earlier
this
morning.
T
You
know
we
have
produced
an
enormous
amount
of
information
and
data
about
Boston's,
unique
vulnerabilities,
and
all
of
these
reports
are
telling
us
the
same
thing
that
Boston
is
at
great
risk.
The
assessments
also
tell
us
that
these
vulnerabilities
are
not
just
limited
to
infrastructure
damage.
They
include
health
safety
and
natural
risks
as
well.
Many
of
these
risks
are
and
will
continue
to
be
borne
by
the
city's
most
vulnerable
and
disadvantaged.
Despite
these
many
acknowledgments
and
the
planning
and
data
collection
efforts,
the
city
has
taken
few
steps
to
reduce
known
vulnerabilities.
T
Today
there
are
no
laws
or
regulations
that
require
adaptation
to
climate
change
impacts,
including
increasing
flood
risks.
City
Planning
functions,
including
floodplain
management,
continues
to
rely
on
historical
and
outdated
information
rather
than
forward-looking
data.
The
city
has
produced
through
climate
already
Boston
continued
failure
to
act,
lob
implications
for
us
all.
The
city
cannot
solely
rely
on
developers
and
other
private
actors
to
incorporate
adaptation
measures
voluntarily.
In
fact,
allowing
individual
sites
to
adapt
to
these
conditions
without
proper
guidance
oversight
or
a
comprehensive
citywide
framework
could
have
unintended
consequences.
T
Individual
sites
may
inadvertently
divert
floodwaters
to
adjacent
properties
or
well
prepared
sites
may
become
islands
of
resilience
surrounded
by
ill-prepared
infrastructure
adequately.
Preparing
for
these
risks
is
a
huge
undertaking,
one
that
takes
political
buy-in,
participation
by
residents
and
other
stakeholders
and
significant
funding,
but
we
can't
afford
not
to
prepare.
Boston
is
one
of
the
few
cities
in
the
nation.
That's
working
on
these
issues
proactively,
ahead
of
a
major
storm.
We
haven't
yet
experienced
a
hurricane
sandy
Katrina
or
Harvey,
but
we
could.
T
The
recent
back-to-back
Nor'easters
have
given
us
just
a
small
taste
of
what
the
damage
of
a
storm
that
size
could
cause.
We
have
an
opportunity
in
knowing
what
we
know
to
be
prepared,
but
despite
all
of
our
research
and
all
of
our
planning,
neither
the
Environment
Department
nor
the
BP
da,
both
of
whom
have
been
at
the
forefront
of
the
city's
efforts,
have
the
mandate
or
the
funding
needed
to
lead
a
multi-faceted
long
term
effort.
There
are
immediate
steps
that
we
can
take.
T
Many
of
them
have
already
been
identified
in
the
city's
own
reports,
but
we
do
face
challenges,
particularly
funding.
As
a
city,
we
have
to
identify
a
way
to
overcome
an
inherent
conflict,
our
urgent
need
to
account
for
flooding
and
other
risks,
and
planning
and
development
in
the
city's
reliance
on
property
taxes
for
general
revenue.
This
creates
enormous
pressure
for
the
city
to
increase
its
prop
through
new
development.
At
the
same
time,
because
there
are
no
legal
requirements,
climate
resiliency
remains
a
bargaining
chip
that
replaces
other
public
amenities.
T
Climate
change
is
not
always
viewed
as
an
immediate
crisis,
especially
when
it's
pitted
against
other
critical
means,
but
these
risks
are
immediate
and
addressing
them
is
one
of
the
greatest
challenges
that
we
face.
As
a
city.
We
need
action
now
to
protect
our
residents
and
neighborhoods,
especially
those
with
a
disproportionate
burden
in
need.
There
are
things
that
we
can
do
this
year.
A
few
of
them
include
updating
the
city
zoning
to
reflect
climate
already
Boston
data
on
flood
risks
and
limit
incompatible
uses
in
a
highly
vulnerable
areas.
T
We
can
supplement
the
BPD,
a
voluntary
climate,
resiliency
checklist
with
mandatory
disclosure
on
flood
risk
and
other
impacts.
We
can
incorporate
forward-looking
data
into
design
of
all
capital
funded
projects
and
provide
consistent
methodology
for
engineers,
architects,
planners
to
design
facilities
that
are
resilient
to
changing
conditions.
We
can
pass
a
wetlands
ordinance
that
includes
climate,
informed
buffer
requirements
and
performance
standards
that
will
improve
stormwater
management,
protect
coastal
resources
and
increase
our
flood
resiliency,
and
we
can
move
forward
with
Boston's
participation
in
the
community
rating
system.
Thank
you.
Thank.
B
T
F
You,
madam
chair
and
councillor
Edwards
in
cancer,
SAV
George,
my
name
is
magdalena,
yet
I'm
the
founder
and
director
of
the
harbor
keepers
were
a
new
organization.
That's
focused
solely
on
establishing
coastal
resiliency
in
east
boston
and
to
foster
environmental
advocacy.
So
thank
you
for
this
opportunity.
In
East
Boston
in
the
last
three
storms,
we
had
coastal
flooding,
where
basements
that
had
never
gotten
flooded
before
were
flooded.
We
had
inundation
in
coastal
areas
that
had
never
been
flooded
around
the
area
of
Lewes,
small
and
new
waterfront
developments.
F
We
had
ocean
water
seeping
up
from
storm
drains
in
city
parks.
We
had
flooding
behind
an
area
called
the
be
square
plaza
central
square,
where
our
supermarket
are
only
supermarket.
Nice
Boston
resides
reaching
the
food
delivery
trailers
in
the
parking
lot
which,
by
the
way,
the
supermarket
services
all
of
these
Boston.
F
You
can
see
the
numerous
videos
we
have
been
documented
for
a
couple
of
years
now
we
had
power,
outages,
downed
trees
and
powerlines
roof
collapses
from
snow
loads,
backed
up
storm
drains
flooding
in
the
streets
we
had
exploding,
manhole
covers,
and
in
Chelsea
we
had
exploding
transformers
in
Orion
Heights.
Last
year
we
actually
had
a
mudslide
from
extreme
precipitation
and
snow
melt,
and
during
the
summer
it's
really
not
uncommon
to
see
overheated
third-floor
apartments
and
old
wooden
frame,
triple-deckers
with
little
ventilation,
we're
seniors
on
a
fixed
income,
and
perhaps
lung
problems
live.
F
We
are
obviously
geographically,
as
we
know,
we're
surrounded
by
water
on
all
sides
brings
a
level
of
risk
in
our
evacuation
and
emergency
planning
that
we
actually
get
to
see
play
out
every
day
with
higher
wait
times
for
even
just
an
ambulance.
Eight
minutes
on
average
is
higher
than
the
other
neighborhoods.
F
We
know
this
because
we've
done
participatory
surveys
at
Harbor
keepers,
where
we
have
discovered
that
ninety
percent
of
the
people
who
participated
do
not
know
where
the
designated
evacuation
shelters
are
so
we've
seen
reports
on
this
lack
of
equitable
planning.
A
lot
of
our
colleagues
have
mentioned.
This
were
indeed
a
world-class
city
with
incredible
talent,
rich
financial,
that's
unmatched,
historical
significance
in
the
state-of-the-art
port.
We're
incredibly
diverse,
but
we
as
a
city
like
many
other
cities
around
the
globe,
can't
seem
to
get
up
to
speed
on
mitigating
the
climate
impacts.
F
We
aren't
short
the
research
and
reporting.
Indeed,
the
city
of
Boston
has
a
bold
climate
action
plan.
We've
paid
millions
of
dollars
in
technical
and
scientific
research,
so
we
know
the
projections
we've
seen
it
play
out
recently.
We
also
know
pretty
much
the
areas
that
we'll
see
increased
flooding
and
other
climate
impacts,
but
we
also
know
which
are
the
communities
and
I'd
like
to
talk
more
about
the
people.
Of
course
we
need
to
talk
about
infrastructure
and
buildings,
but
I
think
our
focus
is
more
on
people
that
will
be
stranded
or
I
hate.
F
To
say
this.
If
we
get
hit
with
a
hurricane
sandy,
people
will
perish
and
as
Deanna
mentioned
and
others,
you
know,
we've
been
lucky
for
many
sports,
Tony's
or
even
Bostonians.
There
really
is
no
plan
B
if
we
get
hit
with
a
hurricane
sandy
or
Harvey
tomorrow,
millions
of
gallons
of
oil
and
fuels
stored
along
the
Chelsea
Creek
and
some
of
those
the
most
vulnerable
communities
which
are
labeled
and
designated
as
environmental
justice
communities
will
cause
toxic
spills
into
nearby
neighborhoods
has
happened
in
Houston
this
past
summer.
F
It
just
takes
time
and
trust,
building
we're,
building
we're
literally
building
a
movement
of
engaged
communities
that
is
taking
action,
whether
it's
on
a
household
or
individual
level
or
through
advocacy
but
and
I've
heard
this
say
a
lot
that
communities
need
to
be
included
in
the
planning.
But
we
take
this
a
step.
Further
community
should
be
driving
this
kind
of
planning
because
we
live
work
and
play
in
these
neighborhoods.
We
know
our
neighborhoods,
so
we
have
a
lot
of
valuable
local
expertise
that
can
be
tapped
into
and
is
currently
not
tapped
into
right.
F
Now,
we're
really
modeling
community
engagement
process
that
could
set
the
course
for
achieving
more
resilient.
Neighborhoods
I
urge
the
City
Council
here
today
to
really
take
a
look
at
how
much
money
we're
spending
on
resiliency
planning
now
and
model
other
cities
across
the
world,
or
even
in
the
states
in
Hoboken
New
Jersey,
for
example,
they
have
three
separate
director
positions
and
including
a
community
engagement
director
for
resiliency
planning
in
the
Netherlands
residents,
actually
pay
1/3
water
bill
that
covers
municipal
spending
on
climate
and
flooding.
F
Resiliency
were
four
years
into
the
2014
version
of
climate
action
plan.
In
two
years
into
climate,
ready
Boston,
which
is
a
bold
and
comprehensive
set
of
initiatives
that
I
had
the
privilege
to
participate
in
that,
if
implemented,
could
take
us
to
a
level
of
resiliency
that
could
protect
us
to
some
extent.
But
we
need
to
be
bold
and
building
capacity
at
the
local
level
working
in
funding
organizations
on
the
ground
on
flooding
and
resiliency
initiatives.
F
We
need
to
leverage
and
uplift
local
community
expertise
in
leadership
and
and
actually
implement
a
structure
so
that
climate
and
resiliency
budgets
could
fund
positions
at
the
local
level
in
each
neighborhood
to
employ
local
residents
on
these
initiatives,
and
we
value
our
consulting
partners.
But
I
think
the
priority
should
really
be
to
employ
local
people
so
that
you
have
sustainable
investment
in
capacity
and
skills.
F
So
I
think
we
could
all
agree
here
that
we're
on
the
same
page,
with
a
sense
of
urgency,
achieving
the
necessary
level
of
climate
resiliency
is
going
to
take
a
real
giant
leap
of
faith
for
all
of
us.
An
investment
in
resiliency
planning
that
we
haven't
done
yet
and
a
lot
of
hard
work,
planning
together
side
by
side
with
communities
incorporating
their
valuable
expertise
in
helping
Bostonians
check
off
action
item
after
action
item
from
emergency
planning
to
climb
an
education
to
sustainable
development,
to
finding
additional
sources
of
funding
for
all
of
these
initiatives.
Thank
you.
M
You
counselors
for
having
me
here
today,
I'm
either
last
because
I'm,
the
oldest
guy
in
the
room
I've
been
working
on
climate
more
than
anybody
else
or
I'm
smarter
than
everyone
else.
So
take
your
take
your
pick.
We've
heard
a
lot
so
look
and
I
provided
a
written
statement,
but
let
me
just
sort
of
sum
up
a
few
points
that
maybe
that
would
be
helpful
and
and
give
sort
of
my
own
take
on
lessons
learned.
I
am
a
senior
adviser
to
the
green
ribbon.
M
Commission
I've
been
very
actively
involved
since
the
start
of
the
climate
ready
Boston
project
I
helped
to
design
it
and
I
sit
on
a
number
of
the
steering
committees
in
partnership
with
the
city
or
we're
seeing
many
of
the
projects
that
you've
heard
about
today.
I
think
the
good
news
is
the
climate
rady
Boston
project
has
given
us
a
very
strong
technical
foundation
upon
which
to
take
actions.
So
there
was
very
good
science
done
by
the
Boston
research
advisory
group.
M
That
I
was
when
we
first
started
this
project
a
number
of
years
ago,
thanks
to
the
planning
work,
that's
been
done
in
detail
now
in
East,
Boston,
Charlestown
and
the
Seaport,
and
hopefully
will
soon
fall
out
downtown
and
that
confidence
in
my
mind
as
I
think
we
have
the
ability
I
think
it's
feasible
to
protect
those
areas
within
the
range
of
3
to
5
feet
of
sea-level
rise.
You
know
which
are
on
the
on
the
sort
of
middle
range
of
projections
going
forward.
M
Money
is
a
different
problem
and
I'll
come
back
to
that
in
a
second,
the
city
did
a
very
nice
job
of
outlining
a
five-year
program
of
actions
called
the
outline
of
actions,
and,
if
you
haven't
looked
at
that,
I
would
encourage
you
to
do
so.
It's
a
pretty
clear
path
forward,
obviously,
will
change
over
the
next
several
years,
but
I
think
they've
done
a
good
job
of
outlining
the
tasks
ahead.
M
M
We've
seen
one
inch
of
sea-level
rise
in
Boston
per
decade,
I
believe
now
that
word
2
inches
per
decade
over
the
last
20
years,
and
it's
probably
the
five
or
six
inches
of
sea-level
rise
that
occurred
from
1978
when
we
had
the
big
blizzard
of
78.
That
is
a
storm
of
record
that
caused
the
recent
storms
this
winter
to
cause
the
same
level
of
flooding
that
five
or
six
inches
of
sea-level
rise.
M
The
number
you
often
hear
of
seven
to
ten
feet
probably
has
maybe
a
one
in
a
thousand
chance
of
occurring
and
if
you
think
about
that,
we'd
have
to
have
a
foot
of
sea
level
rise
every
decade
for
the
next
eight
decades
to
reach
those
numbers
compared
to
the
one
or
two
inches
that
we've
had
so
I.
Think
it's
important
just
to
keep
that
frame
in
mind.
M
There's
no
single
silver
bullet
to
this
problem,
particularly
I,
think
you've
heard
that
today,
but
in
addition
to
whatever
we
do
structurally,
whether
it's
green
or
gray
along
the
waterfront
zoning
is
really
really
important,
and
you
heard
rich
McGinnis
start
the
day
off
by
suggesting
that
they
are
thinking
about
developing
a
sea-level
rise.
Overlay
district
I
think
we
need
to
get
moving
on
that
much
more
briskly
and
particularly
as
we
as
I
want
to
effect
any
new
development
that
hasn't
yet
been
built.
M
In
these
areas,
along
the
waterfront,
J
and
others
talked
about
the
building
code,
that
is
a
state
jurisdiction
problem,
but
it's
really
really
important.
It's
the
building
code
that
sets
the
base
flood
elevation
for
all
of
the
development
in
our
city
to
date
that
process
at
the
state
level
has
only
looked
backward
and
not
forward
so
I
think
we
could
really
use
the
help
of
the
City
Council
and
encouraging
the
state
to
have
a
different
approach.
M
Fairness
and
equity
issues
are
very,
very
large
issues,
but
I
think
they're
more
complicated
and
we've
had
this
conversation
than
just
where
do
people
live
and
are
their
residences
vulnerable?
Absolutely
and
absolutely.
We
have
to
focus
in
some
of
those
areas
such
as
East,
Boston
and
Charlestown,
where
the
lower
income
populations
live,
but
it's
also
important
focus
on
where
they
work.
People's
livelihoods
are
as
important
as
where
they
live.
I.
Remember
some
of
the
early
meetings
in
East
Boston,
where
we
were
focused
on
their
residential
areas
and
many
of
their
residents
said.
M
You
know
if
Logan
shuts
down
for
four
weeks
and
I,
don't
have
any
income
or,
if
I
can't
get
through
in
the
subway
to
get
to
my
job
over
in
South
Boston
I
have
a
bigger
problem
than
whether
my
basement
floods,
so
thinking
about
where
they
work,
as
well
as
where
they
live.
I
think
is
really
important
and
then
just
a
few
more
points.
Nobody
has
here
really
put
the
number
on
the
table,
so
I'm
gonna
do
it.
M
You
know
it's
hard
for
the
city
to
come
up
with
more
than
20
or
30
million
dollars
of
new
funding
for
almost
anything
in
any
given
year.
But
if
we're
talking
about
it
being
a
two
and
a
half
billion
dollars,
how
are
we
gonna?
Do
that
and
I
don't
think,
there's
gonna
be
any
panacea
from
the
federal
government.
Who's
gonna
coordinate
it.
Who
has
the
engineering
expertise
to
oversee
it?
M
Finally,
we
have
to
enlist
the
the
private
sector
I
think
in
a
very
very
big
way,
particularly
because
there
isn't
going
to
be
enough
public
funding
to
resolve
this
problem
and
I
think
there
are
many
ways
to
do
that.
But
if
we
look
at
what's
happened
with
Green
greening
of
our
our
buildings
in
Boston
and
the
fact
I
think
it's
David
Levy
and
others
were
saying
earlier
that
they
now
have
greater
market
value
because
they're
more
desirable
properties
we
have
to
think
about.
M
How
can
we
get
to
the
point
where
properties
that
are
more
resilient,
have
more
market
value
and
therefore
encourage
their
owners
to
upgrade
over
time?
They're
likely
won't
be
enough
public
money
to
do
that.
So
I
think
it's
important
to
sort
of
reframe
it
in
that
way,
and
then
finally,
one
I
think
one
of
the
biggest
challenges
is
going
to
be
low
income
and
affordable
housing.
You
know
a
major
fraction
of
the
structures
that
are
now
in
these
vulnerable
zones
are
double
triple
Decker's,
some
of
them
seventy.
M
That's
not
going
to
be
an
easy
problem
and
I
think
we
have
to
look
at
what
was
done
in
the
in
the
renewable
and
energy
efficiency
area,
where
measures
were
provided
to
do
audits
of
homes
and
then
math
save
comes
in
with
some
sort
of
incentive
and
programs.
Some
of
that
works.
Some
of
it
doesn't
work
and
there's
some
lessons
there
that
we
should
follow,
but
I
think
a
focus
on
housing
would
be
a
nice
area
for
you
all
to
look
at
I
know.
Many
of
you
are
very
interested
in.
M
It
is
certainly
a
port,
an
important
passion
of
a
mayor
Walsh,
so
we
need
to
look
for
some
common
ground
there
and
how
to
build,
affordable
housing
and
make
it
resilient
at
the
same
time.
So
let
me
stop
there
just
to
let
you
know
that
green
ribbon.
Commission
has
been
delighted
to
be
working
on
this
very
great
problem
in
the
last
several
years
and
we
look
forward
to
continuing
to
do
so
in
partnership
with
the
city.
Thank
you.
B
M
David
Levy
hit
right
following
through
on
these
resilience
plans
that
are
being
developed
for
each
of
the
waterfront
neighborhoods,
but
the
really
important
moments
going
to
come
about
a
year
from
now.
Once
we
finished
the
downtown
once
the
city
finishes,
the
downtown
piece
we'll
know
what's
needed,
you
know
along
the
entire
waterfront.
That's
when
we're
gonna
have
to
really
prioritize
what
to
focus
on
first
yeah.
F
I
mean
I
think
reiterating
what
I
said
earlier
is
in
terms
of
the
coordination
with
the
community
is
doing
some
really.
You
know
grassroots
work
and
not
just
engaging
the
communities
but
allowing
them
to
do
to
drive
some
of
the
planning
and
building
networks
at
the
local
level
with
the
neighborhoods
and
then
continue
to
find
resources.
We
do
have
some
resources
from
the
different
agencies
and
departments
I.
Think
it's
a
matter
of
coordinating
and
leveraging
those
resources,
whether
it's
Boston,
Water
and
Sewer,
programming
or
working.
F
So
coordination,
you
know
making
sure
showing
those
communities
and
the
people
who
are
working
within
each
neighborhood
are
included
in
that
process
and
leveraged
and
uplifted
and
then
also
fostering
environmental
advocacy
will
will
teach
skills
to
people
at
the
local
level
so
that
they
in
turn
can
continue
to
advocate
as
things
get
moving.
I
would.
R
Say
anything:
that's
low
hanging
fruit:
you
should
go
after
right
away.
I
think
I
saw
in
the
in
the
plan
for
the
Greenway
there
was
a
hundred
thousand
dollar
flood
wall
will
have
a
seventeen
million
dollar
benefit.
So
anything
like
that
I
think
that's
within
the
city's
capability,
a
funding
nation.
You
should
do
right
away.
R
It
was
alluded
to
a
little
bit,
I
think
with
David
other
cities,
huge
storm
water
utilities,
so
maybe
there's
you
set
up
and
whether
that
would
be
through
the
Boston
Water
and
Sewer
Commission,
MWRA
or
even
a
separate
type
of
agency.
But
a
lot
of
cities
will
use
that
to
fun.
You
know
we
have
water
and
sewer,
but
this
is
kind
of
a
different
way
of
coming
up
with
a
funding,
source
and
I
think
with
any
doing
any
kind
of
public-private
partnership.
There
has
to
be
some
incentive
there.
So
how?
R
How
that's
gonna
work-
I,
don't
know,
maybe
the
the
money
that's
saved
from
from
once
you
put
this
mitigation
in
place-
is
some
kind
of
there's
some
kind
of
payback
on
return.
So
they
had
something
like
that,
but
it
would
seem
that
has
to
be
an
incentive,
but
once
that's
in
place
I
would
think
you
would
get
a
lot
of
interest.
R
Mostly
I
think
around
the
nation.
It's
been
much
more
in
transportation,
because
this
because
there's
a
revenue
source
cuz,
you
give
that
well
the
finances
that
has
the
ability
to
collect
tolls
right
so
I
mean
well.
If
you
that,
in
order
for
those
partnerships
to
work,
there
has
to
be
some
kind
of
revenue,
swass
or
some
way
of
for
them
to
get
a
return
on
investment.
R
S
So
I'd
say
sort
of
two
recommendations.
The
first
would
have
to
do
with
codes
with
the
zoning
code
and
the
end
of
the
building
code,
because
those
really
are
the
baseline
and
those
also
then
become
incentives
for
how
public
money
how
private
money
is
spent
as
projects
are
built,
developed
or
re
or
redeveloped.
That's
you
know
you
want
to
help
make
sure
those
codes
are
incentivizing.
The
best
practices,
the
other
which
I
think
it's
been
alluded
to.
A
number
of
times
is
finding
mechanisms
for
funding
and
governance
at
a
kind
of
district
scale.
S
You
know
we're
good
at
we.
You
know,
we've
done
a
big
solution
with
MWRA,
you
know,
and
we
may
need
that
kind
of
regional
scale
solution,
but
within
the
city
we
tend
to
focus
on
the
leveraging
the
individual
develop
development
project
and
what
kinds
of
public
benefits
can
it
provide?
We
don't
have
the
models
we
need
for
taking
a
collection
of
projects
and
property
owners
identifying.
What
are
the
key
improvements
you
need
to
make
in
this
area,
and
how
do
you
share
the
costs
fairly?
B
T
I
will
echo
J
and
say
that
I
think
zoning
and
codes
are,
you
know,
should
be
top
priority
over.
You
know
this
year
in
the
next
couple
of
years.
Zoning
in
particular
I
think
we
can
move
a
little
bit
quicker
on
as
far
as
the
building
code
goes,
as
others
have
recognized.
It's
a
little
bit
more
difficult
because
it's
not
in
our
immediate
control.
T
I
think
there'll
be
a
more
incentive
for
developers
to
listen
to
their
design
professionals,
who
are
urging
them
to
take
more
steps.
It's
unfortunate
that
that
liability
right
now,
you
know,
for
the
most
part,
sits
with
the
design
professional,
because
in
many
cases
they
are
not
the
ultimate
decision-maker,
so
that
definitely
couldn't
could
make
a
difference
in
Boston
and
elsewhere
as
we
wait
for
the
codes
to
be.
You
know,
to
catch
up
to
science.
I
would
also
just
echo
Peters
comments
about
stormwater
utilities.
T
T
There
are
a
lot
of
other
cities
who
have
done
this
Philadelphia
many
cities
and
towns
in
Vermont-
and
you
know,
investment
in
stormwater
infrastructure
and
retrofits
is
very
attractive
to
private
investors
depending
on
the
payback
schedule,
and
it's
something
that
I
think
could
definitely
be
done
in
Boston.
I
think
we'd
want
to.
You
know,
do
it
at
the
regional
scale,
perhaps
something
that
MWRA
could
think
about
being
the
house
for,
and
particularly
storm
water
utility
being
established.
B
B
B
U
I
second
and
everything
I
want
to
bring
out
an
example,
and
we
talked
a
little
bit
about
the
speed
with
which
we
need
to
be
working
because
of
the
changes
that
are
going
on
and
the
need
for
some
of
the
zoning
and
funding
mechanisms
for
these
things
to
be
in
place.
While
we're
you
know
we're
sitting
here.
U
Waiting
things
are
happening
as
we've
seen
this
winter
and
in
particular,
I
want
to
draw
attention
to
one
particular
project
without
getting
too
much
in
the
weeds
of
it,
so
that
it's
applicable
to
other
neighborhoods
but
I'm
talking
about
a
project
to
put
in
an
electrical
substation
along
the
banks
of
the
Chelsea
Creek,
which
has
gone
through
the
energy
facility,
siting
board
and
I
was
a
limited
participant
in
that
process.
So
I'm
pretty
up
on
the
details
of
it.
It
was
mentioned
earlier,
I
think
rich
McGinnis
may
have
addressed.
It
was
the
electrical
substation.
U
That's
over
in
South
Boston
is
an
example
of
some
infrastructure,
critical
infrastructure,
that's
been
put
in
a
flood
zone
and
they
raised
it.
They
implemented
some
measures
to
try
to
prevent
any
sort
of
flooding
of
that
area
of
that
infrastructure
and,
in
the
case
of
this
one
to
date
at
least
public.
U
We
can't
do
anything
about
it
now,
it's
a
done
deal
just
accept
it,
and
what
we're
talking
about
is
an
electrical
substation
in
an
area
that's
already
getting
flooded
and
will
most
likely
be
flooded
in
the
near
future.
That's
across
the
street
within
a
hundred
feet
of
a
playground
and
within
on
the
other
side,
within
a
little
over
100
feet
of
an
8
million
gallon
tank
of
jet
fuel.
U
U
So
we
have
the
way
that
things
get
done
in
the
city
is
going
on
as
it
has
been,
and
the
way
that
we're
talking
about
planning
is
definitely
going
in
the
right
direction.
Everything
has
been
discussed
here
is
great.
We
need
to
make
sure
that
that
it's
hitting
where
the
rubber
hits
the
road
and
in
like
right
here
and
now,
and
not
two
years
from
now,
when
the
next
report
comes
out
or
further
on
down
the
road
and
just
to
close
out
relative
to
the
community.
U
V
U
V
Silly
jar
Acedo
esta
casa,
para
para:
practicar,
el
deporte,
sabemos
de
la
difficulte,
odd
es
que
haya
aurita
y
NOS
cuesta
encontrar
ezra
creo
que
es
la
mejor
for
mais
de
ser,
o
Mara
crayon
para
la
para,
la
gente
in
personal
loss.
Immigrant,
a
Panos
que
su
models
in
cuenta
por
ciento
que
vivimos
in
his
Boston.
So.
V
Try
go
esto
es
por
que
sabemos
que
es
esta
creando
una
planta
electrical
'equal,
Qo'nos
problemas
que
se
stand
and
oh
yeah
la
sin.
Un
a
Sione's
que
es
muy
peligroso
para
nosotros,
nuestra,
familias,
no
estas
mess
quotas,
creo
que
trae
Irma's
peligro,
a
nuestra
comunidad,
a
no
estrosi
hos,
a
nuestra
mess;
Cotto's
presses,
T&O
estrus
flag,
Torre's
creo
que
no
creo
que
hacer
una
when
I
their
parametric
una
de
and.
U
V
U
B
W
Thank
You
counselors,
my
name
is
Gannon
I
live
in
East,
Boston
and
I.
Had
the
pleasure
of
working
with
the
city
Environment
Department
on
climate
ready,
East
Boston
as
part
of
the
nonprofit
in
East
Boston
neighborhood
of
affordable
housing,
I
learned
a
lot
from
that
project
and
I'm
also
doing
some
work
for
the
East
Boston
Greenway
currently
and
I
run
a
small
urban
farm
called
easy
farm
in
East
Boston,
it's
among
other
purposes.
It's
there
to
show
young
people
how
to
be
resilient.
W
How
to
do
waste
management,
how
to
do
rain
water
conservation
things
like
that,
so
a
fuse
that
starts
to
share
it
surprised
me
how
many
people
don't
know
this
Boston
is
number
eight
or
was
number
eight
in
the
list
of
most
vulnerable
cities
to
sea-level
rise
in
the
world
number
eight
in
the
world.
People
may
not
know
this.
It
is
in
terms
of
the
property
that
is
vulnerable
to
sea-level
rise
and
when
that
is
the
case
to
be
adding
more
property
to
the
same
vulnerable
space
appears
to
be
like.
W
We
want
to
move
up
that
list.
We
should
be
moving
down
on
that
list
and
climate
ready,
East
Boston
report.
If
you
read
that
you
know
that
it's
not
about
all
of
his
Boston,
nor
is
it
about
all
impacts
of
climate
change.
It
is
climate
change
impacts
include
coastal
flooding
include
extreme
precipitation
from
storm,
as
well
as
urban
heat
island
effect.
However,
the
climate
rady
East
Boston
project
had
a
limited
scope
that
was
only
about
coastal
flooding
and
only
about
a
specific
part
of
East
Boston
granted.
W
That
was
the
most
vulnerable
part,
but
it's
about
only
that
part.
It's
not
about
all
of
East
Boston
and
it
does
not
include
storm
water.
Flooding
I
mentioned
that,
because
omitting
parts
of
the
effects
of
climate
change
could
have
effects
that
we
were
not
prepared
for
and
therefore
unable
to
handle.
It
could
also
be
that
solving
part
of
the
problem,
while
not
addressing
the
other,
could
have
counter
effects.
W
How
are
worse
and
I'm
not
sure
we
prepared
for
a
storm
like
what
happened
on
the
January
for
the
fourth
of
January.
If
there
were
one
foot
more
water,
two
feet:
more
water,
I'm,
not
sure
what
our
plan
is
currently
I,
don't
know:
I
go
on
the
city
of
Boston
website.
I,
try
to
look
up,
look
for
a
plan;
I,
don't
see
it
if
an
evacuation
plan,
for
example,
I
mean
speaking
of
evacuation.
W
I-
think
we
wouldn't
be
evacuating
because,
as
you've
heard
before
in
the
north,
we've
got
all
kinds
of
vulnerable
situations
like
petrochemical
products
and
the
south
east
west
we've
got
only
water.
So
one
of
the
evacuation
sites
is
the
Amana
barn
school,
which
itself
is
in
the
floodplain,
so
that
doesn't
make
much
sense.
We
need
to
have
a
new
plan
and
I.
Have
a
few
suggestions
cut
me
off
whenever
the
Boston
watt
water
sewer
commission
could
prevent
the
backflow
in
some
of
these
drains.
We
see
every
time
there
is
an
astronomical
high
tide.
W
We
see
that
the
water
from
the
harbor,
as
it
rises,
flows
backwards
through
the
drain
and
then
up
into
the
streets,
and
that
causes
a
lot
of
flooding
by
salt
water,
which
is
corrosive
and
I'm,
not
sure
what
the
plan
is
to
prevent
that
backflow.
You
would
have
thought
that
there's
already
a
preventer,
but
there
isn't,
and
in
some
parts
of
East
Boston,
which
are
extremely
low-lying,
the
water
comes
up
with
very
high
pressure.
It
feels
like
a
geyser
and
every
every
one
of
these
crisis
is
an
opportunity.
So
we
could
be.
W
We
put
in
a
lot
of
money
in
developing
these
models,
but
we
should
also
be
looking
at
these
floods
when
they
actually
happen
to
measure
how
far
they
get,
how
deep
they
get
and
how
much
the
impact
is.
So
we
can
compare
that
to
the
models
and
know
for
sure
how
well
our
models
are
faring
and
I'm,
not
sure
that
measure
is
being
taken
as
to
every
time.
We
know
some
amount
of
notice.
When
these
floods
happen,
we
should
be
deploying
people,
whoever
willing,
where
is
willing,
and
it
can
be
done
very
safely.
W
When
this
happens,
because
the
city
may
find
it
difficult
to
get
the
East
Boston,
for
example,
because
the
tunnel
is
closed
or
whatever
aquarium
station
was
out
of
commission
for
a
while,
so
we
can
prepare
and
we
should
prepare
people
arm
them
with
whatever
they
need
and
I.
Let
them
go
to
work
and
there
are
many
people
who
are
willing
to
do
this.
Like
my
Glen
I
was
saying
earlier,
we
should
be
leveraging
the
passion
that's
already
there.
W
In
doing
this
work
and
I
think
we
should
be
engaging
the
students
that,
and
it
should
be
em.
We
should
be
talking
about
mitigation
very
seriously.
It
should
be
part
of
the
curriculum
in
the
schools
and
bps
can
be
contacted
by
the
mayor.
Told
it-
and
this
is
this-
has
to
be
part
of
it.
Currently,
it's
not
climate
change.
W
Education
is
not
part
of
school
education
and
it
should
very
much
be
there
at
all
levels,
and
there
are
many
people
willing
to
help
with
that,
and
the
harbor
keepers
and
easy
form
currently
already
involved
in
some
schools
in
East
Boston
doing
exactly
that.
I
think
we
should
build
on
work
like
that
and
when
the
kids
learn
they
go
to,
they
go
home
and
talk
to
the
adults
and
the
adults
don't
have
time
to
come
to
climate
change,
meetings
and
whatnot.
But
when
your
kid
is
talking
to
you,
you
can't
ignore
that.
W
So
that's
one
way
we
can
reach
more
of
those.
So
I
really
think
the
education
part
is
crucial
here,
because
we
should
be
thinking
long-term.
And
yes,
it
is
an
immediate
issue,
but
it
is
also
a
much
bigger
issue
in
the
longer
term,
so
the
kids
should
be
involved
and
I
mean
some
things
are
very
perplexing:
we're
doing
zero
carbon
planning
and
zero
waste
planning
at
the
same
time
allowing
the
fossil
fuel
new
fossil
fuel
investments
to
happen.
It
just
doesn't
make
any
sense.
W
If
we're
allowing
somebody
to
do
that,
maybe
put
up
a
big
building
or
dig
a
hole
to
put
a
pipeline,
we
should
be
asking
them:
hey
we're
trying
to
reduce
carbon
you're,
adding
carbon.
So
what
is
your
solution
for
helping
us
reach
our
carbon
goal?
How
are
you
gonna?
Do
that
question?
We
should
be
asking
anybody
who
wants
to
propose
any
kind
of
carbon
positive
project,
we're
looking
for
Carbon
negativity
right,
so
we
should
be
encouraging
carbon
negative
projects
and
if
developers
show
up,
they
say
we
want
to
build
something.
W
Yes,
they're
gonna
create
housing,
but
we
should
be
pushing
them
to
say:
how
are
you
going
to
make
it
a
carbon
neutral
building,
make
it
their
job
to
go.
Do
the
research
about
how
to
do
a
large-scale
passive
house
and
unless
there's
a
force,
some
sort
of
compulsion
from
the
government?
Why
would
they
do
it
so
also
I
keep
hearing
that
the
federal
government
as
an
excuse
like?
Oh,
we
don't
have
funding
and
what
are
we
gonna
do
never
mind
them
know
we
have
to
lead.
W
So
we
just
find
ways
to
do
what
we
can
and
I
think
someone
else
alluded
to
the
idea
of
low-hanging
fruit.
There
are
many
low-hanging
fruits
we
should
be
going
after
that
with
everything
we've
got
and
we
should
get
creative.
The
CPA
is
their
Community
Preservation
Act
right
that
can
provide
funding
anybody
and
everybody
is
allowed
to
apply
for
that
funding,
and
that
is
exactly
there
to
counter
some
of
the
effects
that
are
going
on
with
economic
improvement,
which
have
had
the
side
effect
of
too
much
development
in
vulnerable
areas.
W
That
CPA
is
there
to
create
more
open
spaces,
be
more
sensitive
to
community
needs.
It
stands
for
Community
Preservation
right,
so
we
should
be
using
that
and
and
add
the
additional
layer
of
resiliency
on
top
and
apply
and
city
agencies
are
welcome
to
apply
to
that.
So
I
think
those
are
some
of
my
thoughts
and
I
will
send
my
comments
in
writing
as
well.
Thank
you
thank.
B
B
X
The
four
point:
neighborhood
is
one
of
the
highest-risk
neighborhoods
for
climate
change
and
flooding,
and
this
impact
reaches
from
the
breaching
the
four
point
channel
seawall
into
our
neighborhood
streets
and
into
many
of
our
historic
basements
via
the
storm
drain
back
those
they're
over
a
hundred
and
thirty
outflows
into
the
four
point
channel
fifty
are
owned
by
the
Boston,
Water
and
Sewer.
The
rest
are
privately
owned
and
unidentified
and
storm
surge
is
black
flooding
through
those
drains
and
the
manholes
into
our
neighborhood.
X
And
while
resiliency
ideas
are
being
explored
about
raising
the
harbor,
walk
constructing
ground
over
the
water
sheet
and
incorporating
open
green
space.
There
are
no
zoning
requirements
or
modifications
to
plan
development
areas
to
implement
these
solutions,
such
as
abiding
providing
greater
open
green
space
to
protect
the
neighborhood
at
large
and,
in
fact,
in
the
adjoining
Seaport.
The
remaining
undeveloped
12.5
acres
received
approval
last
year.
X
For
an
amended
plan
with
reduced
green
space,
an
increase
of
a
million
square
buildable
feet,
adding
great
density,
and
if
we
keep
allowing
greater
density
and
hard
scape
to
replace
our
open
green
space,
where
is
the
water
to
go?
We
also
await
adaptive
redesign
guidelines
for
our
historic
buildings
and
for
our
newer
construction
develop
before
climate
change
considerations.
There
is
great
concern
regarding
funding
and
financing
for
retrofitting
or
multi-family
residential
buildings
and
climate
changes.
A
complex
issue
and
residents
deserve
a
better
opportunity
to
be
involved
and
to
provide
informed
input.
X
The
recent
outreach
in
South
Boston
has
focused
on
open
house
formats,
which
don't
allow
residents
to
the
opportunity
to
ask
and
get
answers
as
a
group
and
to
provide
solutions
together.
It's
an
approach
that
limits
residential
voice.
We
live
here
and
we
want
to
be
part
of
the
solutions
that
preserve
our
quality
of
life
and
will
allow
future
generations
to
access
and
enjoy
the
waterfront.
Thank
you
for
your
consideration
and
I'll
also
supply
based
electronically
to
the
council.
Thank.
B
You
Sara
and
I
know
that
councillor
Flynn
is
here
again
councillor
clarity
here
as
well.
We
also
had
received
a
number
of
other
pieces
of
testimony
that
I'll
make
sure
all
the
committee
members
and
my
colleagues
get
Nicolas
Gunkel
with
a
great
idea
of
how
we
could
use
3-1-1
data
to
track
the
already
occurring
effects
of
damages
caused
by
storm
water
and
coastal
riverine
flooding
by
looking
at
reports
of
mold
and
other
things.
B
Rebecca
and
Paul
chef
Kozak
from
the
mystic
East,
Eagle,
Chelsea,
reliability,
project
and
I
believe
bill
Norman
had
been
here
earlier,
had
to
step
out
talking
about
the
239
causeway
street
98
North,
Washington,
Street
and
100
North,
Washington
Street,
and
the
tremendous
damage
that
happened
with
the
Boston
Development
Group.
And
finally,
we
had
a
statement
sent
over
from
a
group
of
faith
leaders
from
diverse
religious
traditions
who
wanted
to
share
with
the
councilors
that
they
support
this
work
on
climate
change,
particularly
rabbi,
Katie
Allen
from
the
Jewish
Climate
Action
Network,
and
the
Reverend
dr.
E
G
You
Council
for
hosting
my
apologies
but
slight
delay,
but
is
watching
from
the
office
with
in
and
out
of
meetings,
but
I
actually
live
in
the
flood
zone
and
at
one
point,
I
thought
it
was
actually
gonna
take
a
tsunami
to
have
an
impact
and
just
the
most
recent
northeast
storms
and
seeing
dumpsters
floating
down
a
street
and
and
just
seeing
the
damage
and
devastation
along.
The
waterfront
makes
this
more
than
timely.
G
So
I
appreciate
your
leadership
on
it
in
your
efforts
on
you
know
between
council,
lady
redwoods,
who
represents
these
Boston
Charlestown
North
End
and
Council
Flynn,
who
also
represents
South
Boston
and
you
and
I
both
that
Lodge,
that
this
is
gonna,
be
an
issue
that
we're
gonna
continue
to
deal
with.
So
look
forward
to
learning
more
about
this,
but
also
working
with
you
as
we
move
forward.
B
Okay,
so
this
concludes
the
hearing
I'm
going
to
leave.
We
will
have
further
working
sessions,
particularly
noted.
We
need
to
have
the
office
of
emergency
management
here
at
Boston,
Water
and
Sewer,
thinking
about
housing
and
older
buildings,
teeth
for
regulations,
and
particularly
the
community
outrage
piece,
but
for
now
this
concludes
the
City
Council's
hearing
on
dock
at
zero
to
nine
one.