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City, community leaders outline Resilient Bayview plan to strengthen neighborhood preparedness
Summary
City and community speakers described Resilient Bayview, a community-driven resilience program that brings agencies, nonprofits and residents together to write neighborhood resilience action plans and build local capacity for disasters and climate impacts.
City officials and Bayview leaders on Dec. 3 described Resilient Bayview, a bottom-up planning effort to strengthen neighborhood preparedness for disasters and long-term climate impacts.
Daniel Homsey, director of neighborhood resilience in the city administrator’s office, told the commission the program is an asset-based, community-led model that received initial CDC funding and piloted in Diamond Heights. Homsey said the Bayview effort convenes more than 125 agencies and established steering committees focused on seniors, small businesses, immigrants and families.
G. L. Hodge of Providence Baptist Church described local preparedness work, noted savings from church solar installations and urged continued neighborhood-first planning. ‘‘When the big one hits, nobody's coming to the Bayview,’’ Hodge said, arguing local preparedness will be essential in the first 72 hours and beyond.
Department staff said Resilient Bayview will post materials publicly at resilientbayview.org, operate monthly neighborhood meetings and coordinate with the department’s other climate and outreach programs. Commissioners encouraged literature distribution and additional community meetings to sign up neighbors for participation.
