{"id":66761,"date":"2018-05-08T11:00:02","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66761"},"modified":"2018-05-06T21:31:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T02:31:59","slug":"resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66761","title":{"rendered":"Resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I hear city governments talking about hiring “resilience directors” – like Minneapolis and Saint Paul<\/a> – the job usually involves…<\/p>\n

…well, let’s let the City of Minneapolis explain it:<\/p>\n

…expanding access to affordable housing, and the impact that would have on our other goals, including building an inclusive economy and strengthening police-community relations,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, it’s a non-profit executive being paid for directly by the taxpayer.<\/p>\n

Of course, when I originally heard the term “resiliency officer”, I\u00a0thought\u00a0<\/em>they meant something like this<\/a>\u00a0– actually working to make their cities more, y’know, resilient:<\/p>\n

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In the wake of Harvey, Houston has become a prominent test case for resilient rebuilding. Last month, the Houston City Council\u00a0approved regulations<\/u><\/a>\u00a0requiring new buildings in the 100- and 500-year floodplains be built 2 feet above ground level or above the projected water level of a 500-year flood. The city previously mandated a 1-foot height for homeowners in the 100-year floodplain, and\u00a0a report<\/u><\/a>\u00a0earlier this year found that\u00a084 percent<\/u><\/a>\u00a0of Harvey-damaged homes in the area’s floodplains could have been spared with the higher height standard.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, who originally proposed the new height rule, also is seeking funding to build a\u00a0third reservoir<\/u><\/a>\u00a0for the city, though such a project would take\u00a0years to complete<\/u><\/a>.This year’s hurricane season, which begins June 1, is\u00a0forecast<\/u><\/a>\u00a0to be “slightly above average.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Leave it to the DFL to pervert the term “Resilience” beyond all recognition.<\/p>\n

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When I hear city governments talking about hiring “resilience directors” – like Minneapolis and Saint Paul – the job usually involves… …well, let’s let the City of Minneapolis explain it: …expanding access to affordable housing, and the impact that would have on our other goals, including building an inclusive economy and strengthening police-community relations, In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,28,255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minneapolis","category-st-paul","category-the-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66762,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66761\/revisions\/66762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}