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Designate adaptation action areas, restoration areas and growth areas as a priority-setting tool for vulnerable areas. Designating these areas can guide people and commerce to less vulnerable places in
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Design and construct additional Capital Improvements - Green & Gray Infrastructure to provide a reliable water supply to 1.7 million customers.
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Design of built environment, tree canopy, transportation (how to move). Opening community centers, education, water, building social/community plans, how elders work within community neighbor networks.
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Designing a Communications Handout About Sea Level Rise
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Designate ecologically important areas as “permanent natural features.”
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Designate a full-time position for floodplain management. The position would manage Community Rating System activities, outreach and education, coordinating with surrounding jurisdictions and working
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Designate an individual to regularly report to the Climate Resiliency Task Force on forest health, in order to assist with early identification of wildfire risk, changes to wildlife patterns, dangers
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Design policies and incentives for private landowners, businesses and landlords to plant native species and reduce the use of fossil fuel derived fertilizers and pesticides.
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Design program incentives for landlords to install rain-capturing devices (e.g., rain barrels, cisterns) for onsite irrigation and to promote groundwater recharge at public facilities.
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Design program policies to promote stream and wetland restoration. Ensure adequate retention, drainage and diversion of stormwater. Such policies could also encourage green infrastructure such as grassy
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Designate public cooling shelters for extreme heat events within municipal and county facilities (e.g., library, community centers) and with partners (e.g., non-profits, faith-based organizations).
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Designate public cooling shelters for extreme heat events
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Design roadways, bridges and utilities with protective measures (e.g., elevate bridges, build protective berms) to account for future flooding projections.
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Designate the flood zone as green space that can be used for trails and recreation or to augment small scale agriculture or flood water retention.
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Determine if alternative, acute-drought solutions, such as trucking potable water to rural users, are adequate given the projected frequency of severe drought events.