Resiliency & Climate Response Meeting

The Resiliency & Climate Response committee helps mitigate, adapt, and prepare for the ongoing and future impacts of climate change. We strive to identify practical solutions, build awareness, educate, and advocate for urgency in climate resilience activities.

JULY AGENDA

TRACKING ISSUES

• DEC (Design Excellence Conference): Water focus

  • Three courses submitted and approved (share info)

  • Schedule planning check-ins with speakers

• AEGB Input – follow up items

  • Carbon sequestration – Caroline -> Samira

  • Share DEC info with AE staff as requested

  • Share data resources for water projections (drought risk assessment) – Caroline -> David Venheizen

PRIORITY ITEMS

• Capture presenters who can’t feed into DEC/post DEC – keep soliciting

• Collaborate with COTE

  • Water Tour ideas: Hornsby Bend, UT, Apple HQ, One Water Elementary, ADS, Central Library – ?

  • Coalesce idea for resilience demo integrated into new Design Center (feedback)

CROSS-ADVOCACY COLLABORATION

• Mobility

  • Barton Springs Rd. Bridge resolution -AIA letter supporting historic landmark process

  • Streetscape design standards (* tree shade) – track and support GI, Great Streets & Urban Design Guidelines updates, I-35 frontage and cap/stitch

    • Kickoff meeting 6/15 (Lauren on this)

• Housing

  • Promote ACU to integrate small scale distributed retail/commercial

  • “Ten-minute Walkability”

• COTE
  • PDC Tour 7/29/26

We typically meet the third Thursday of the month at 10:30 a.m. Join our email list to hear about upcoming events.