RESILIENT CEDAR KEY PROJECT
SOUGHT INPUT
2022 December 16
2022 December 16
On Thursday, December 8, 2022, some fifty individuals met at the Cedar Key Community Center to offer input to the team charged with the tasks of creating both a Vulnerability Assessment and an Adaption Plan in anticipation of climate change phenomena currently and potentially affecting Cedar Key.
THE TEAM
Partnering with the City of Cedar Key, Florida Sea Grant, and the University of Florida’s Institute for Built Environment Resilience (FIBER), Center for Landscape Conservation Planning (CLCP), and Shimberg Center for Housing Studies representatives, led by the Nature Coast Biological Station’s Savanna Barry, comprise the team and undertook the mission of producing the Assessment and the Plan.
Partnering with the City of Cedar Key, Florida Sea Grant, and the University of Florida’s Institute for Built Environment Resilience (FIBER), Center for Landscape Conservation Planning (CLCP), and Shimberg Center for Housing Studies representatives, led by the Nature Coast Biological Station’s Savanna Barry, comprise the team and undertook the mission of producing the Assessment and the Plan.
GRANT GETTING
With a completed Vulnerability Assessment and an Adaption Plan, Cedar Key will be eligible for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s Resilient Florida Grant Program. Without the Vulnerability Assessment and its consequent Adaption Plan, no eligibility for resilience funding is possible.
With a completed Vulnerability Assessment and an Adaption Plan, Cedar Key will be eligible for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s Resilient Florida Grant Program. Without the Vulnerability Assessment and its consequent Adaption Plan, no eligibility for resilience funding is possible.
ASSETS IDENTIFIED
Much preparatory work had already been done by the team and was presented this evening in the form of maps which identify extant Cedar Key “assets.” The UF Community Mapping Tool identifies critical community and emergency facilities, or “assets”: critical water and wastewater infrastructure, natural, historical, cultural resources, and transportation. Each asset, be it a water plant, a park, or a museum, is located on these maps.
Much preparatory work had already been done by the team and was presented this evening in the form of maps which identify extant Cedar Key “assets.” The UF Community Mapping Tool identifies critical community and emergency facilities, or “assets”: critical water and wastewater infrastructure, natural, historical, cultural resources, and transportation. Each asset, be it a water plant, a park, or a museum, is located on these maps.
'COMMUNITY-DRIVEN"
Foundational to the State of Florida Resiliency Grant getting is community input and “community-driven adaption designs.” Thus, tonight’s team sought input from the community in identifying additional assets to further complete the current data set.
Foundational to the State of Florida Resiliency Grant getting is community input and “community-driven adaption designs.” Thus, tonight’s team sought input from the community in identifying additional assets to further complete the current data set.
MORE ASSETS IDENTIFIED
After Barry’s introduction, and UF School of Architecture’s Jeff Carney spoke to slides a series of slides that detailed the project’s scope. Then, with hunger abated with hot pizza from the Market at Cedar Key, Barry and Carney set the participants to work.
After Barry’s introduction, and UF School of Architecture’s Jeff Carney spoke to slides a series of slides that detailed the project’s scope. Then, with hunger abated with hot pizza from the Market at Cedar Key, Barry and Carney set the participants to work.
Four breakout groups were formed, each with a specific focus: infrastructure, aquaculture, tourism, and the environment. Each group attempted to: identify missing assets; explain why those assets are critical; identify threats and opportunities to these assets. Each group’s UF facilitator reported briefly newly revealed assets.
CONTINUED MEANINGFUL ENGAGEMENT
Barry closed the evening offering a QR code, included below this article, and urging further public input on unidentified assets.
Barry closed the evening offering a QR code, included below this article, and urging further public input on unidentified assets.
WHAT NEXT
The team will return to the community several more times in the next year and a half with their project accomplishments.
The team will return to the community several more times in the next year and a half with their project accomplishments.
IN ATTENDANCE
Present, providing input, and representing the City of Cedar Key were Mayor Heath Davis, Vice-Mayor Sue Colson, and Commissioner Nancy Sera. Present, providing input, and representing the Cedar Key Water and Sewer District were Joe Hand, Tabitha Lauer, and Leslie Sturmer.
Present, providing input, and representing the City of Cedar Key were Mayor Heath Davis, Vice-Mayor Sue Colson, and Commissioner Nancy Sera. Present, providing input, and representing the Cedar Key Water and Sewer District were Joe Hand, Tabitha Lauer, and Leslie Sturmer.
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