Event Details — 2011 Coastal Resiliency Workshop

You’re invited to a unique visioning exercise May 26th at the 2011 Coastal Resiliency Workshop. The workshop will look to the year 2035 to ask:

1. Can your community house its share of 410,000 new residents?
2. How will growth impact disaster preparation and response? What difference will your choices make?
3. What will this mean for municipal services and public safety?

To get answers, please join us at the 2011 Coastal Resiliency Workshop, a unique visioning exercise with limited seating for local officials and citizens. Coastal resiliency is about adapting to the new reality of coastal hazards- planning for growth and recovering from storms quicker, safer, and better. This year, we are inviting local officials, municipal staff, and citizens to a hands-on workshop to explore the implications of the next 25 years of growth along the western shores of Galveston Bay. The Workshop will facilitate a discussion on development and growth using the latest visioning technology and new interactive mapping tools. The Workshop will take a birds-eye view of the next 25-years and examine through different growth scenarios what policies we can put in place today for creating tomorrow’s resilient communities. In an age of sea level rise and intense coastal storms, resilient communities will have to take stock of where and how development takes place along our shores.

Get ready to peer into the future as you join us May 26 at the Texas A&M University Galveston Campus.

Please see the attached 2011 Coastal Resiliency Workshop flier (PDF). Seating is limited. You will be joined by local experts on coastal planning, development, and hazard mitigation. RSVP to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)