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incentive programs, and the development of
disaster-specific structure design to better prepare
for likely shocks.
e. Create financing opportunities for resilient
infrastructure and have a coordinated public
private investment.
f. Create public private partnerships to pilot
innovative resilience solutions including dedicated
funding pools.
g. Collaborate with nonprofits and academic
institutions to commercialize research on
resiliency.
POTENTIAL IMPLEMENTATION PARTNERS INCLUDE,
BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:
SFRPC CEDS Committee; Broward, Miami–Dade, and Monroe counties and municipalities; local planning and
utilities departments; Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact; Academic Research Institutions, Florida
Department of Environmental Protection; South Florida Water Management District; Florida Housing Coalition;
Industry Associations; Community Foundations; Florida Advisory Council on Climate and Energy; Economic
Development Organizations; Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
c. Encourage zoning changes of commercial areas to
include multifamily residential development.
d. Support new and current financial incentives for
affordable and workforce housing.
e. Advocate for legislative changes and solutions to
curb skyrocketing homeowner and flood insurance
policy premiums.
3.3. Sustainable Land Development Patterns
a. Support programs and investments that match
public and private land use and development
decisions with existing and planned infrastructure
investments.
b. Educate governments, citizens, and developers on
the importance of investing in green and climateresilient infrastructure.
c. Inventory available properties that need
restoration and/or preservation, including
brownfields and historic districts and resources.
3.4. Proactively Plan for Natural Disasters / Economic
Shocks
a. Align regional planning efforts with local Pre-Disaster
Mitigation Plans, Local Emergency Planning
Committee, South Florida Water Management
District, Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change
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POTENTIAL IMPLEMENTATION PARTNERS INCLUDE,
BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO,
SFRPC CEDS Committee; Broward, Miami–Dade, and Monroe counties and
municipalities, Academic & Research Institutions; Industry Associations;
Community Foundations; Economic Development Organizations; South
Florida Business Council; Broward Workshop and other private-sector
business leaders, elected officials, county and city administrators &
managers; Ports/Airports; Non-Profit Organizations; Small Business
Administration
4.1. Strengthen partnerships with existing regional organizations and explore opportunities for joint projects
a. Using the SFRPC as a liaison and communicator, enhance understanding of regional issues and areas of partners expertise among the
region’s public, private, non-profit, and philanthropic sectors.
b. Host and engage regional roundtables around topics of mutual interest and prioritization and growth of regional economic clusters.
c. Encourage widespread use of design charrettes and other venues for public input into project development.
d. Improve internal communications among all government agencies and stakeholders and support external communications processes
through partners.
e. Engage the business community (including major employers), nonprofit sector, academic institutions, elected officials, and
government staff (city managers, county administrators, ports/airports) to implement the CEDS.
f. Encourage coordination with the South Florida Regional Planning Council to increase focus on regional resilience and attract critical
investment to the seven-county Southeast Florida Region.
PRIORITY GOAL 4: PROMOTE REGIONAL COLLABORATION OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL, PUBLIC-PRIVATE,
INTERAGENCY, AND NON-PROFITES TO ADDRESS SOUTH FLORIDA’S ECONOMIC CHALLENGES
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ECONOMIC RESILIENCE
The creation of a resilient economy is a long-standing priority of the
South Florida EDD and U.S. EDA. Resiliency has many facets with a
wide range of contributing factors including literacy, educational
attainment, transportation, housing, a wide range of infrastructure,
general affordability (insurance, utilities, child-care, etc.), health, and
family, social, and community influences. In South Florida climate
resilience is recognized as an integral component of economic
resilience and has been an area of significant effort and investment for
more than a decade. In recent years the state of Florida has undertaken
significant planning and investment to augment local efforts in South
Florida and other areas of the state to advance resilient communities
and economy initiatives.
Economic resilience refers to the ability of local economies to “bounce
back” to normal conditions after losing function because of an
uncontrollable event. Resilient economies have the capacity to quickly
respond to, withstand, and recover from adverse situations such as a
public health crisis or high intensity storm events. As a coastal region
bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, the Everglades and
wetlands on the western edge of Miami-Dade and Broward counties,
and the Gulf of Mexico on the western side of Monroe County, South
Florida is an environmentally vulnerable region susceptible to intense
flooding and other damage from tropical weather systems and
hurricanes. As demonstrated by Hurricane Andrew (1992), Hurricane
Katrina and Hurricane Wilma (2005), and most recently Hurricane
Irma (2017), the region faces potentially devastating physical,
economic, and community damage when a powerful hurricane makes
landfall in South Florida.
“Resilience” became an increasingly important concept with the onset
of COVID-19 pandemic in South Florida in March 2020. The COVID-19
pandemic dramatically exposed the region’s economic inequality and
the underlying weaknesses of the economy. While all economic sectors
in South Florida were affected, the Leisure & Hospitality industry, a
major employer of low-income workers, was the hardest hit sector in