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قسمتي از متن فيلم: Mode hi everyone my name is brittany kavinsky and i want to welcome you all it is now 1 pm so we will begin our presentation shortly today on friday july 27th we will have our presentation on a tale of three waterfronts given by david white rick tayner and bill needleman

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This webcast is available for one and a half cm credit we are recording today’s webcasts and it will be available along with a six slide per page pdf of the presentation at www.utah.apa.org webcast archive great thank you ben and at this time i’m going to introduce ben frost who is

Going to introduce our speakers for today david white rick taynor and bill needleman thank you brittany i’m the professional development officer of the northern england chapter and i’m delighted to be helping with this panel today a tale of three waterfronts for decades the waterfronts of our port cities were the drivers of regional

Economic development but as markets changed in the mid 20th century these areas in many cities became derelict eyesores economic black holes that sucked the energy out of these once thriving urban centers over the past few decades however new approaches to the function and utility of urban waterfronts have given these

These districts a new vitality and vibrancy this webinar will present the waterfront redevelopment stories of three small cities portland maine portsmouth new hampshire and burlington vermont it’ll highlight the economic social and environmental forces at play as these cities work to redefine themselves these are three cities from the three states

Of northern new england this is one of two multi-step multi-state apa chapters west central being the other perhaps the central message that you hear today is that waterfronts evolve but not necessarily in a predictable or formulaic fashion some important points to take away are that policy process and infrastructure

May need to be uniquely tailored to these important parts of our cities our panelists today are all aicp members and i’ll introduce them in reverse order starting with david white david is a native vermonter and has worked for the city of burlington since 1995 currently serving as its director

Of planning and zoning he has a degree in geography from the university of vermont and a master’s degree from duke university’s nicholas school of the environment and earth sciences welcome david next is rick painter planning director from the city of portsmouth new hampshire since 2009. he has more than

۳۰ years experience as a professional planner including time spent in one of my favorite places newburyport massachusetts rick is a graduate of harvard university and has a master’s degree in resource economics from the university of maine hello rick our first speaker will be bill needleman who is a lifelong resident of

The city of portland maine bill is a senior planner in the city’s planning division where he’s worked for the past 12 years focusing on waterfront and transportation issues he has a degree in geology from boston college and a master’s degree from the muskie school at the university of southern maine bill

Welcome and take it away thank you very much ben and it’s great to be here i really appreciate the opportunity to talk about portland’s waterfront planning and some of the learning we’ve done over the the several decades and especially the last uh 13 years that i’ve been working with waterfront issues

For with portland i would uh leave it to folks to let me know if you’re looking at something other than my presentation and so um yeah so people are looking at my screen right now this just look to confirm that and i’m going to launch in right here we’ve got a fair

Amount of ground to cover um and there we go i’m going to give a brief introduction to portland uh maine not oregon for since this is a national uh presentation i’m going to give a chronology of some of the waterfront planning initiatives that we’ve undertaken in portland um talk about our policy framework

Which is really about balancing working waterfront uses with other uses the geographic application of these policies through zoning and the differentiation between the different zones based on historic uses infrastructure and water depth and then a case study and some examples of applying these policies through zoning and development standards we’re really looking to

Establish functional use relationships between marine and non-marine infrastructure and uses as well as mixed-use infrastructure we do this through performance-based zoning and straight-up site planning the city of portland is maine’s largest municipality with a population of about 66 000 within a metro region of 250 000. portland is our financial transportation

And service center for much of northern new england the port of portland is divided between two cities portland and south portland located at the mouth of the four river and the southerly end of casco bay the south portland side of the river it contains some significant liquid bulk freight and petroleum

Docks recreational birthing and on the portland side it’s dominated by commercial fishing bulk and break bulk freight as well as passenger services looking at a an aerial view of downtown portland you can see that portland is a peninsula and we are highly defined by our waterfront geography

The waterfront itself as we speak of in terms of the functional waterfront is really the harbor where we have dredged water and enough water depths to undertake commercial marine activity and that’s about two and a half to three miles of waterfront that is located along that southeasterly side of our peninsula

Portland has a deep history and commitment to its waterfront and maritime industries that is not entirely defined by fishing which is the emblematic industry that we think of and certainly fishing plays an important part of our history but it’s really shipping and rail manufacturing along the waterfront passenger transportation and

Largely military that define our history as a waterfront community and it’s important to note that virtually all of these traditional uses have undergone significant decline and in the case of military literally a disappearance so what’s left well back in the 1980s there were attempts to revitalize our waterfront through non-marine development such as

The condominiums that you see in the background of this photograph the foreground is dominated by the lobstering industry which is one of the big industries that are left in our working waterfront and these early these 1980s attempts to revitalize the waterfront were displacing working waterfront uses which led to an important

Period and an important event in the city’s history back in 1987 there was a referendum to create a moratorium on all non-marine development opportunities this was a citizen-led referendum and it passed by overwhelming margins the citizens of the city of portland did not want to see moving back

More condominiums and they wanted to retain the traditional maritime uses that we see in this photograph following the five-year moratorium it was important to then step back and look at what can we do to encourage some degree of investment in this area and the waterfront alliance was a group of property owners

Planners and citizen activists who came together to find out what is the appropriate balance and it was through that 2000 that not excuse me 1992 to 1994 process that we established the policies that we currently work with but since that time it’s been a constantly evolving set of policies and i’m going

To spend a fair amount of my conversation talking about the latest round of that evolution which is our central waterfront in general the policy basis for waterfront planning in portland is based on a priority of uses where water dependent uses those uses that need to be on the water the

Birthing the lobster pounds the processors who actually take cargo from the water to the land those water dependent uses are the highest priority use marine related uses are those uses that don’t necessarily need to be on the water but are related to the waterfront economies and gain value from location

On the waterfront and then there is an allowance for compatible non-marine uses we set this up as a pyramid both to emphasize the priority but to also to emphasize the relative revenue potential of these uses the non-rin uses often and usually have the greatest revenue potential compared to the higher priority uses

In this situation those non-marine uses must respect the functional needs of higher priority uses but they also provide needed revenue to invest in marine infrastructure we apply these policies through zoning and there’s largely three sub-areas on portland’s waterfront the western portion of the waterfront located over

To the left of the screen is a large it’s a deep water facility largely dedicated to freight both containerized freight and bulk freight the easterly side of the waterfront is largely dedicated to passenger passenger uses both local ferry cruise ships and hopefully we’ll be looking at international ferry again in the future

The eastern waterfront also has additional mixed uses in that complement and provide services for that passenger industry and then we’re going to concentrate on the central waterfront which is lighter marine industry mostly fishing but other uses as well mixed with non-marine uses we want to promote marine industry and infrastructure while allowing compatible

And supportive non-marine uses we hope to also to achieve functional use relationships between the marine and the non-marine we know that some of these uses actually support each other very strongly these complementary uses such as having our ferry services approximate to our tourists and shopping up localities these are uses that are

Complementary and support each other strongly other uses or may not be related but can be compatible the photograph that we’re looking at here is located on the city’s fish pier there’s literally an office building located on the city’s fish pier the office uses located on these upper floors

Are compatible with first floor marine support services which support and are necessary for the highest priority uses which are the birth vessels here in this case ground fishing vessels this system of having non-marine upper floor uses supporting the infrastructure for marine uses works in the circumstances because it’s designed to work

The infrastructure is robust the circulation has enough capacity there are safe alternatives for marine and non-marine pedestrians to keep to to to work together without getting in each other’s way and then there are incompatible use relationships we are not looking to reproduce 1980 style residential condominiums in this industrial environment

Especially with these industries such as a bait shack which has a lot of external impacts including hours of operations and odors it’s we have found that this is not a reduced relationship that we look to foster when we try waterfront planning activities in the city of portland we

Always have to ask what we’re doing are we doing a waterfront plan or are we doing a land use plan that happens to be next to the water they’re fundamentally different things because the image on the left of maintenance of fishing nets and environmental response these vessels and services require different infrastructure than

The mixed use infrastructure and commercial infrastructure that we see on the right commercial vessels have specific needs and in portland we are talking about the commercial waterfront you’re looking at a collection of different types of boats but a boat yard and fishing vessels located in a pure environment

The infrastructure that we see here requires its own very specific type of planning and every commercial vessel is a business this is one of things that we look at the upper right hand image of lobster boats in casco bay it’s a pretty image and it’s an image that promotes

Our city as a tourist as a tourist destination but every vessel is a family business each each vessel supports a number of employees as well as the owner and it’s in this concept of vessels as businesses is scalable the seven story structure and the low and the main photograph is

Just a portion of a freight vessel that employs many people and is a vital part of our larger economy so these economies play out at largely different scales in our central waterfront which was the pro which was the focus of a recent process and here we’re looking at the central

Waterfront uh circled in this photograph we’ve played this out in the most finest scale part of our waterfront the central waterfront is comprised of about 14 privately held finger peers that are bracketed and anchored by some public infrastructure the international marine terminal and the main state pier are publicly owned

Deep water facilities with passenger services being concentrated in the east and freight to the west the quasi-municipal fish pier anchors the central portion of the central waterfront the central waterfront is a mixed-use district that’s highly integrated with our downtown these are 19th century piers that are literally roads into the

Water and the street grid of the city and the pier infrastructure are tightly integrated and it’s often difficult to know when you’ve entered the peers and when you’ve entered the city because of this integration you can see our downtown literally sitting on top of and right in back of

These 19th century and very small-scale peers unfortunately while it is a it’s a wonderful geography there’s aging infrastructure there’s limited revenue opportunities and there are a great deal of challenges in the fishing economy specifically this has resulted in building obsolescence and code compliance issues for many of these buildings making them

Very difficult to reuse which de-emphasizes the opportunities for investment there’s also water depth and dredging needs harbors tend to be depositional environments filting of the harbor bottom diminishes the value of and the usefulness of birthing opportunities which is the fun which is the fundamental anchor of our marine economy in order to

Address some of these issues 12 of our commercial peer property owners came forward and said they needed a rezoning and these are competitors these are folks who don’t necessarily always get along with each other but for them to come forward as basically covering the entire of our privately held waterfront coming forward

Together with a common set of proposals and needs really spoke of revolution in the air it wasn’t the same as 1987 but had a similar feel where we knew that as a city something serious needed to be done we engaged in a typical but robust planning process using our planning

Board and our city council as the major review authorities and um undertook the rezoning uh evaluation and process i’m not going to go into detail of this process but be happy to answer any questions about it but we did look at our building and uses down there we inventoried the birthing

And public access areas we inventoried parking we inventoried businesses and employment uh we got fairly far into the weeds with many of with much of this uh letting but it was important for us to understand that there were you know what was going on before we started to work with the

Policies that should support the marine economy we engaged in our public and we learned a number of things and we learned that this portion of the city was still a major employment area and that these jobs were important that there wasn’t all bad news that there was

Some strong there was some strength in the marine economy and that they were still ongoing concerns occupying large portions of the properties and what we also realized that looking at the non-marine businesses that were in the area that the mix and diversity of activity in the waterfront central

Zone was probably its greatest asset and should be supported by and enforced by the policies and zoning in place we took this information and drafted it into a vision statement which is then incorporated into a comprehensive plan and this is just a very brief excerpt but the vision statement for our central

Waterfront is based around the idea of achieving a balance with the economic benefits of non-marine activity support marine activity which supports the waterfront and supports the city taking that vision and paw and set of policies we put it into new zoning again i’m like with the process i’m not going to

Go into detail as to what’s in our zoning because that’s a difficult thing for a friday afternoon for you folks to sit through but i’ll give a very brief overview of what’s included in our zoning i put the little pyramid up in the corner to remind us that this is still based on

The priority of uses that was established back in 1992 all of this has been finding the appropriate balance for the specific portion of the waterfront that we’re working with right now the central waterfront and in this area we just we discovered that there were opportunities on that waterfront where we could have

Non-marine development without any marine requirements these are areas that were far enough away from the water’s edge or otherwise occupied by non-marine uses where the marine economy had already left or was probably never going to come into those areas so we created a non-marine use overlay in other areas

Majority of area of those areas were preserved for marine use allowing for some degree of non-marine use to again to encourage investment there’s a marketing requirement for marine tenants in those areas so that even when a non-marine use is allowed the space first needs to be provided and

Made available to the to marine users the marine infrastructure is required for investment larger scale projects are needed to put a percentage of their of their investment back into the peers and if they don’t have a peer to invest in if they happen to be one of those off

The water activities then they can contribute to a city fund there are performance standards and i emphasize these in the slide because that they are important and we’re going to talk about them in a little bit but these performance standards encourage pure functionality compatibility with marine uses between non-marine uses and marine uses

Standards for parking and standards for view protection there’s also a requirement that we inventory and monitor the zone on an annual basis to understand understand what’s happening and if there are any unintended consequences of the zoning what didn’t change is that there is still protected commercial birthing there’s no new

Opportunities for recreational birthing in the area and there’s no new opportunities for residential use if anybody’s interested in the zoning please let me know or my email is included at the end and i’d be happy to email it to you in a case study and how does this apply

We’re going to look at merrell’s wharf and this the cumberland cold storage building a remnant of this wonderful 1980s industrial complex shown in this this graphic back in 2010 there was still a significant portion of that complex still around in the form of a hundred thousand square foot building

That was used for self storage located right in the heart of portland’s working waterfront looking at the red rectangle that’s the cumberland storage building there’s the hundred thousand square feet adjacent to the city’s fish pier complex adjacent to a net repair facility which is a critical component for the for the

City’s fishing fleet and the property itself owned by cumberland storage was home to its own fleet of lobster vessels two years ago there was a proposal to convert the upper floors into class a office space housing the largest law firm in the state of maine this is allowable under city’s zoning

Ordinance but there was a simultaneous lease of adjacent fish peer property including that net yard to a lobster cooperative for a regional scale bait distribution business this was a perfect storm for testing the limits here’s the bait facility here’s the largest law firm in the state the solution was to simply apply the

Standards that were in place and make sure that those standards were reflected in the site plan that was in front of the planning board so again the red rectangle is the cumberland storage building and the lobster boats are located right along this edge of the of the property which is in the water

There was a requirement and a dedicated for dedicated marine birthing space that would support the lobster vessels there was improvements to the decking and to the fendering system for those lobster vessels there was adequate circulation and turn around for trailers that would also again support the loading and offloading of lobster vessels

But likewise the legal office needed its own infrastructure the brick sidewalk adjacent to the building provides a safe accessible way for the patrons of that building to enter the building and circulate without getting in the way of or putting themselves at risk in this marine industrial environment

There was also through movement to the net yard to facilitate traffic moves and truck moves between properties looking at it in construction there’s also additional environmental and storm water infrastructure that was put in place but here we see the improved pier edge we see opportunities for marine storage loading and offloading of commercial

Vessels here with the with the building under construction and not for renovation we start to take these the things that we’ve learned in studying and applying these rules and think about the language of site planning for marine environments and here’s just a a look at one of these

Side loading peers where if there’s going to be non-marine development what do you need on the first floor what do you need in terms of pedestrian circulation and lighting to make it safe how does the circulation relate to the loading of commercial vessels putting things together in the right

Order and the right in the right components will help make functional infrastructure that is safe and usable for everybody and again there we’re starting to learn what are the what are the dimensional requirements that are necessary to make functional mixed used infrastructure first floors need to have sufficient floor to ceiling heights to

Facilitate marine industrial activity pedestrian active pedestrian circulation needs to be wide enough as does vehicle circulation as do the working aprons for the loading and unloading of vessels and not all peers are the same so we need to think about this in terms of different horizontal and vertical alignments and layouts

You know this this slide just gives an example of how if you have a constrained peer where there may not be room for dedicated pedestrian circulation it may need to go into the building in order again to keep it separate from and safe in what is potentially a hazardous industrial environment

All of this is asking the question is can portland avoid the assumed dichotomy we had always assumed people had always told us that you have to make a choice between here we have the 1980s condominiums again high value infrastructure high value development or employment widgetry’s wharf shown off

Here to the left is low value development but it also employs about 60 people and provides the homes for upwards of 25 businesses counting each boat as a business the condominiums on the left employ probably three or four people full time so that those are the goals that we’re

Looking for is to avoid having to make the choice between jobs and value and the policies that are in place are looking to strike that balance happy to answer any questions and i’m looking forward to you know hearing questions at the end of the presentation and then i’m going to have to keep

Turn it over to the next person and maybe the staff support you can give me a hand and take back the ball and this is rick chander from portsmouth new hampshire very impressed with your presentation bill we’ll try to have a equally interesting presentation here i’ve been the planning director in

Portsmouth for about three years now so a lot of what i am going to be showing you is more research than personal experience just to give you a context portsmouth is on the seacoast of new hampshire about halfway between boston and portland portsmouth is a very different community than portland

It’s a much smaller community we’re about 22 000 people so about a third of the size of portland about half the size of burlington um we have uh we’re on the piscataqua river here uh just a just a short distance from the mouth of the river uh 15 square

Miles 22 000 people about 34 000 employees in the city uh largely uh were a regional uh service center and employment center you can see here on the map the pease international trade port which used to be an air force base until the early to mid 1990s at which point it was

Closed through the brac process and has been redeveloped as a major office park we have relatively relatively strong in terms of retail uses business services health services a very low unemployment rate of 4.2 percent uh peas itself has about four million square feet of um office industrial r d

Uh and uh warehousing and transportation is responsible for about 7 000 of the 34 000 employees in the city another major employment center just outside the city actually in kittery maine but it’s called the portsmouth naval shipyard has another 4 300 employees on see the island our waterfront

Is as i said along the piscataqua river just a couple of miles from its mouth it’s a natural deepwater harbor the waterfront also extends around the east side of the downtown through little harbor and up sagamore creek but we’re really focusing on the the central waterfront area of the city right along

The river along the waterfront and this gives you a kind of an overview of the waterfront see if i can get this out of my way here okay um at the upstream end of the river we have public service new hampshire’s shoulder station power plant and some

Sway corporations oil tanks you can see i-95 us-1 bypass and us-1 go right through the waterfront in sequence there’s some waterfront industrial right by i-95 the state port state pier the port of new hampshire is just outside the downtown just at the entrance to the downtown the central waterfront

Runs along the center from the from roughly the uh the port to pierce island and pierce island is just outside the downtown it’s recreational and also has our primary sewer plant on it this entire waterfront in this area is just short of four miles in length

This gives you a sense of the zoning the same area um the kind of plum colored in terms of my computer screen anyway as is the waterfront industrial district uh really geared for these uses that are marine dependent uses term marine terminals and so forth the red areas are our central business

District the central business b is in the dark red has heights up to 60 feet maximum height along the waterfront itself is our central business a which has a maximum height of 50 feet then we’ve got prescott park in green is a municipal zoned area and pierce island as i mentioned before

Another municipal zoned area back in the in the 1800s early 1800s along with portland and newburyport and other cities along the coast here there was a series of disastrous fires uh that led to the um enactment of brick laws that required brick building in in the in the

Downtowns and that resulted in the kind of uh context and physical environment that you see today the um this is the the central waterfront i’ve got marked as a star the the market square which is the current center of our downtown and with an arrow is the intersection of bow street and ceres

Street along the waterfront which is really the initial core of the of the downtown the initial city’s initial marketplace was along series street a little bit to the right of this arrow in this area here was established in the mid 1700s and then the the center kind of moved to this area which

Is called spring hill at the intersection of bow and series street this is uh what it’s like today same two locations you can see a lot of the um the physical structure of the area has changed have been some some new developments like the federal office building over here on the

Left and our parking garage on the right but generally the historic character of that of that downtown waterfront area has been maintained and this is the view toward the waterfront from market square again the same uh connection so you can see that the the waterfront is very closely related to our our small

Downtown area focusing a little bit closer on the downtown um this is the the real central waterfront is less than a mile in length starts from what is well known to anybody in portsmouth is assault piles right across from the sheraton uh hotels we’ve got the industrial right next to

The hospitality industry here and that’s really a characteristic of our downtown is the close interrelationship of the tourist and uh and residential uses with the working waterfront a small working waterfront much less extensive than you see in in portland we also have some open space areas strawberry bank is sort of a

Miniature sturbridge village it’s an open air museum with homes from a variety of areas that have been restored in places as a museum prescott park is a beautiful park along the waterfront and then pierce island is a recreational park uh boat launch uh swimming pool and so forth so it’s in

That tight mix of uses there’s another view showing how all these pieces work together and just take a quick little tour we’re starting at the outside of the downtown here with the the port of new hampshire um on the in the distance is a pile of scrap metal which is another um

Well-known vista in as you enter the city of portsmouth and then we have here the the port for the isle of shoals ferries the uh the steamship company that is a major tourist draw this is the uh the steamship heading out to the isle of shoals next to the salt

Pile and the salt pile in front of the hotel so again all of these uses are in very close proximity the cars in the front of the parking for the steamship company as you move into the downtown you have historic gardens for historic house house museums uh there’s a serious

Street in front and the beginnings of our outdoor dining decks which line the waterfront we have really lost uh over time a lot of the working waterfront in the very core and it’s really become a center for uh residences dining and lately for office uses as well

Here we’re looking across the river to badgers island and kittery maine and off to the distant right of the photograph you can just see the portsmouth naval shipyard on cv island moving down ceres street toward the federal office building we have here that tugboat’s an active tugboat company that is with again with

The hotel in the background and this is that core that central uh uh intersection of series street and bow street uh it’s spring hill where the you can see the uh intersection of the residences restaurants uh the restaurant decks on the left the tugboats uh all different aspects of the city’s

Uses recently we’ve we’ve created a small park in this area which i’ll talk about a little bit later dining and then these are old industrial buildings in this case a power plant that has been converted to originally to office uses and more recently reconverted to residential uses then getting outside the downtown we

Have uh the beginnings of prescott park and and pierce island in the distance in the front is an old commercial use an old former restaurant former peers this is pier 2 which is in the process of being converted to uh condominiums this economy and project about to be uh you

Can see the footings just on the right there it’s underway we have our state fish pier in front of the park another view of the fish pier with the bridge to pierce island and then looking back at the downtown with a fish pier in the front and

Some some of the historic buildings just outside the downtown on mechanic street and some small waterfront uses some small fishing boat docks and see a few lobster men as you get outside of downtown but really that is not the characteristic of portsmouth as it is of portland it’s really become much more a

Mix of hotel hospitality residential retail uses with some commercial fishing on the on the easterly edge of the downstream edge of the downtown and marine industrial uses just upstream the the transformation of portsmouth really began in the late 60s and early 70s with some um uses you we hear a lot about the

Cultural capital and and the creative class and so forth and here we have the fear by the sea which moved into some old warehouse space on series street back in the 60s and generally a lot of the upper floors tended to be vacant at that time there was not much focus from

As far as i can tell from city government on this area it tended to be from private individual investors taking advantage of these available spaces back beginning in the 70s i believe a few landlords started looking at converting their upper floors into residences and that really uh helped

Transform the downtown and some of the there was a series street merchants association and a bow street merchant’s association which really uh kind of spearheaded the development so this is back in in 1969 this photograph by 2006 you can see that the entire street has been converted to

To residential uses upstairs and a really dense mix of commercial uses downstairs including many restaurants and this picture was taken before some some more recent city improvements and the city has gone in and has recently widened sidewalks and made them more accessible so that so to really build on what we have and

I think the city city strategy has really been to see what what the natural evolution has been and to really accommodate it and support it rather than try to fight it this is on the the land side of bow street the construction redevelopment of a former wharf area into a

Mixed-use building primarily retail and office uses that’s the old martingale wharf building and then this is what it looked like just about the time it was being completed and occupied and on the other side uh this is the the uh we have is the resource there and the the 50 foot

Height limit here has been massaged because we look at average grade so in this case the building is four to five stories in the front and seven stories in the rear and it’s got uh restaurants on two levels the wharf level and then two levels above that and then office uses and all

The other levels the uh the downtown area is well known for its the decks uh the restaurant decks which stretch out along the waterfront we don’t have finger peers sticking out of the water so much anymore but we have warps that run along parallel to the water water

And these are very actively used for for outdoor dining when we did the master plan in our most recent master plan in 2005 we had a number of areas where we uh where we talked about the waterfront and its importance to the downtown and people in in the um in the city

Really value the waterfront as a place to be but also as a as a connection to the to the downtown’s history so the one of the key land use uh objectives in the master plan was to strengthen the visual and functional functional connections to the waterfront uh because of its importance to

Downtown’s history and character and i should mention also that in addition to the various zoning districts i showed an earlier slide the entire waterfront is within our historic district which gives us a great degree of control over the design of buildings and to some extent helps us influence how buildings are

Used in the downtown area the various uses we don’t strictly control uh users we’ve got a wide range of uses that are allowed we’re more we’re more concerned with with form perhaps than with function but we do uh get at that through the historic district review also and our economic development element

A key goal was to actively support all areas that comprise the water dependent working waterfront we wanted to increase access to the downtown waterfront we had a riverwalk project that had been two decades in planning and had still not got off the ground and we wanted to

Improve series street and i showed you a photograph of those improvements a little bit a little while ago and we also wanted to support the new hampshire port authority’s effort to promote the use of the port as a working seaport the the salt piles the scrap metal piles um

They may not be the most attractive aspects of our downtown but they are really valued by people as a as a connection to to the waterfront to keep those areas open they certainly don’t want to have those areas uh turned into condominiums or retail uses we have a number of city projects going

On i should say that the the city’s approach to the to the water waterfront uh development has evolved over time it’s been adaptive it’s been somewhat opportunistic as as as opportunities arise we try to make incremental improvements uh one of the earliest things we did was at pierce island pierce island had been

Really a backwater uh we had our sewer plant at the at the far end of it but the rest of it was really uh just open open land with no development and um in the 1980s uh and and getting into the 1990s the city adopted and then started implementing a master plan for

Pierce island creating a new park at fort tree island stabilizing the shoreline so that it could be better used for access to the water improving building and improving an outdoor swimming pool building a number of trails on the far end of the island and managing a boat launch in the summer time

As i mentioned there was a there was a 20-year project for the for a riverwalk which i’ll talk about in a little bit along the along the water that evolved into a public private project on siri street kind of pulled back a small park a mini river walk a smaller version of

The riverwalk street and sidewalk improvements and even the simplest things such as a shared trash enclosure to help uh the many restaurants in there manage the uh the quality of the waterfront there are five five property owners who were involved in a project that was uh involved land swaps easements uh scaling

Back the riverwalk from around 800 feet to around 400 feet and uh and so forth we also try to enhance and maintain visual access to the waterfront whenever possible and in connection with a state a two-state project actually the reconstruction replacement of the memorial bridge we’ve been looking at the planning of a

Riverwalk and park on the on the new hampshire side this was the original piscataqua riverwalk project back in around 2003 2004 something like that and you can see the area in red was meant to connect um existing walkways and existing wharf that harbor place and to try to link all those together

With a with a walkway along along a new and reconstructed wharf parallel to the river what ultimately happened was a much smaller project as i mentioned with a about a 400 foot walkway connecting between restaurants along the along the waterfront a miniature park here um this is the unit down here at the

Lower center of the screen is the intersection of siri street and bow street and then the uh the shared trash container to keep the area more visually appealing and sanitary this is the park that we created it’s a very small park we just were able to to

Create it out of some existing city land along the waterfront um and some some land exchanges and easements with abutting property owners this is our the trash area that we’re so proud of that really does keep the area much more visually attractive and sanitary for all the restaurant uses in that area and

We’ve also you can see some of the sidewalk improvements along sirius street this is from the park looking out toward the the restaurant decks and this is the uh the this is the riverwalk itself this is the connection uh with restaurants on both sides of it heading down is an open area beyond

Where we where we’re looking right now but it takes you down and gives you access to the entire length of the waterfront behind bow street at the end of the riverwalk there are private developments that have created stairs down to the waterfront so that’s this is not part of the public

Project but it’s something that links to our project and when we reviewed the the building on the right you can’t see just beyond this brick wall there’s another parallel staircase there it’s part of keeping good access down to the waterfront from bow street so that we can so we have continuous pedestrian movement

Through that area and really build on on what we have and we also look to enhance visual access to the water wherever possible this is a view of a development that was converted from industrial use to a residential commercial mixed juice site and in this area we’ve negotiated a public access easement so

The the white fence that you see there is actually a marking the edge of a deck that sticks out over the embankment looking down with with panoramic views to the upstream and downstream on the river this really gives us the opportunity at various places even though the the waterfront is is largely

Privatized by these buildings that are parallel to the water gives us an opportunity to get periodic access visual access to the waterfront and maintain the continuity of pedestrian movement that’s one of our our major goals is to maintain continuous pedestrian uh paths through the downtown and along the river and providing these intermittent

Visual access points as part of that in connection with the um the replacement of the memorial bridge which carries route 1 across the piscataqua river the city’s working on a concept plan right now for a park on the new hampshire side of the bridge along with the small

Platforms shown here is memorial harbor walk that is adjacent to a private walkway here that again provides more connection to the waterfront generally our challenges that we see in portsmouth have been how do we maintain and enhance public access to the waterfront in the context of all of these

The demand for residential and commercial uses and maintaining the small amount of water dependent businesses we have a waterfront business district which i haven’t really talked about to deal with some of those small lobstering businesses to the east of the downtown but really looking at accommodating restaurant and residential

Demand along the waterfront recognizing that that is the transformation that has been made in portsmouth and we’re not going to get the the industrial waterfront back and but maintaining that maintaining the public access to that as part of that process and that is the conclusion of my

Presentation and i will now turn it over to david hello david white here from the city of burlington vermont i hope that uh you’re able to see my screen um so burlington vermont uh like portland and portsmouth burlington has a very rich maritime history however our history and our waterfront has evolved

Very differently and our story is really about the evolution into more of a public waterfront for water-based recreation and community events first a little bit of context burlington is one of about 30 different burlingtons in north america so this is the one in burlington vermont we’re not on the ocean but we’re close

We are on almost a great lake lake champlain is the seventh largest water body in the united states and we’re about two hours south of montreal three and a half hours from boston and about six hours from new york city we’re the largest city in vermont and in the lake champlain basin and

Mostly known as a college town home of the university of vermont but a number of uh great national business chains that you’ve probably heard of like ben and jerry’s and bruger’s bagels and the name a couple a little more context for our relationship to the water

As you can see in the slide almost 80 percent of our boundary is water based both along the linuskey river to the east and lake champlain to the west no point in the city is more than a mile and three quarters from either of these bodies of water so you have a

Tremendous amount of water if you will but but the focus of my presentation really is in burlington’s inner harbor which is about 120 acres with about 3 000 feet of lake champlain shoreline commercial use of our inland waterways really began back in the early 19th century

And is what put us on the map in 1823 the completion of the 46 miles of champlain canal provided access to markets to the south and to the west principally the mohawk and erie canals towards buffalo and the hudson river to new york city and in 1843 the 12-mile shembly canal in

Quebec around the rishloo rapids provided access to the north and the saint lawrence seaway um this permitted american entrepreneurs to import large quantities of cheap canadian timber and lake champlain became a major commercial artery in burlington its primary port in about 1850 the burlington and rutland railroad reached the area allowing us to

Become a very important multimodal center the creation of a breakwater in 1836 provided protection for our harbor from wind and waves across the broad lake lay champlain’s about 10 miles across at its greatest width and this was a very important public investment in order to for our waterfront to function

The breakwater is timber cribbing filled and faced with stone it was later expanded in 1867 and is a little over four thousand feet in length it was rehabilitated by the u.s army corps of engineers about five years ago and is listed on the national register of historic places closely following the

Construction of the breakwaters saw the beginning of filling of portions of burlington’s harbor to make room for waterfront commerce and the railroad itself to accomplish this thousands of yards of stone and fill were placed in wooden cribbings behind the banks you can see in this slide here demarcation of what was the original

Shoreline and the filling of the shoreline took place in a couple of different phases this early phase was in the 1850s in the later phase in the 1870s so like any commercial waterfront uh watercraft there’s the essential element of what makes everything work uh in these images uh these are sailing canal schooners

Um that these boats were originally built around 1823 as an experiment uh to sail from distant lake ports into the canal on power of the wind and once they reached the canal the mass were lowered and the center board raised and transform the vessel into something that could uh navigate the canal system

By 1862 the expansion of the canal system allowed for an expansion in the design of these boats which are really a critical element to uh the commercial trade on the lake um the the new vessel and uh called the 1862 class was about 88 feet in length

And 14 feet in beam many of these selling sailing canal schooners were built here in burlington including this replica on the left of the lois mcclure she was launched here in burlington in 2004 and she sails under the flag of the lake champlain maritime museum all throughout the canal system and beyond

We also have several shipwrecks in our harbor including two that are listed on the national register in 1826 the lake champlain transportation company was founded they provide ferry service across the lake today three different locations uh including burlington um in the late 1800s to early 1900s tourism via a

Variety of lake steamers you see in the slide reached its heyday and at the height of the boom there were over a thousand steamers ships and canal boats operating on lake champlain in 1906 the steamer ticonderoga the most prominent immature was launched at the shelburne shipyard she’s currently on exhibit at the

Shelburne museum south of burlington and also is listed on the national register so i mentioned the access to the canadian markets through the champlain canal that really led burlington uh to become a major lumber port and eventually the third largest lumber port in the united states by 1873

Receiving something on the order of 170 million board feet of timber from canada that timber was then processed on our waterfront into dimension lumber and then transported further down through the canal system the 1800s also saw the rise of the western timber industry however and that

Began that was kind of the beginning of the end of our boom these images are from 1875 showing stacks of lumber on the waterfront and you can see the break water in the background which even had a a keeper’s house that house actually exists today not on the break water was

Relocated into one of our residential neighborhoods by 1897 however burlington’s uh domination of the of um the timber trade um came to an abrupt end with the um passage of the dingley tariff which imposed the attacks on all timber imported from canada burlington’s waterfront is also the site

Of one of the nation’s first municipal power plants constructed in 2009 1905 shown here on the left this 1940s image shows some both petroleum uh in the tanks in the upper right and area of the lake that has still had yet to be filled in 1954 the marine generating plant was built uh

It was decommissioned in 1986 and we’ll talk a little bit more about that property uh as we go forward um i mentioned bulk petroleum that was the next phase of burlington’s industrial history during the 1900s our waterfront really transitioned from a lumber port into a rail yard and eventually a bulk petroleum facility

By the 1950s gasoline jet jet fuel home heating oil were all being stored on our waterfront frequent by by rail by barge in by trucks we also served as an an alternate fuel site uh for storage of uh jet fuel during the cold war for the plattsburgh

Air force base which is uh on the other side of the lake and this was really burlington’s waterfront until the early 1990s or so there was up to that point hundreds of thousands of gallons of petroleum products delivered each year by barge and train and then distributed throughout the countryside

In our prime waterfront plant lands were virtually inaccessible to the public but in the late 1960s we saw a transition again beginning to happen and our waterfront began what i guess i would hope would be its uh last downturn this image is from 1978

And this is uh kind of the heart of the waterfront area from here so really this turning point in 1960 uh to today perhaps um really influenced by uh the domination of rail on highways for moving freight so no longer were was uh waterborne transportation uh in favor that

Infrastructure then began to fall into this repair and we saw a rising interest for water-based recreational opportunities and i’ll talk a little bit more about some of those options and opportunities as they presented themselves here in burlington in the mix of both public and private initiatives that came along but but ultimately the

Story is as ben pointed out in the beginning um is one about that evolution and uh and change and really struggling to find a consensus uh and ultimately achieve complete results of what’s the future of our waterfront so back in the 1960s during urban renewal the city began to turn its focus on

The water and kind of what was happening down here uh some of those improvements included some changes that would be completely unacceptable today like many other cities across the country burlington came very close to having a four lane limited access highway across our waterfront you know as many you probably appreciate

Where these projects did go forward large stretches of cities were destroyed and the waterfronts were completely cut off from the public fortunately however by 1968 the waterfront highway proposal was off the table in favor of a plan to use existing streets but the city kept its eye on the

Waterfront as the urban renewal plans on the upland side began to progress with a new hotel and high rises planned for the urban renewal site the waterfront decaying wharfs and oil tanks and rail yards was looking increasingly unattractive and seen as a deterrent to the proposed upland and upscale redevelopment proposals

In 1973 the city adopted a zoning requirement that would phase out the oil storage tanks and other industrial uses within the core of the waterfront this was our first concrete step towards physical improvements of the waterfront and soon after citizens became became agitating uh for more public access

Including a bike path uh through the central core so that really began the the activism uh for public access and public use of the waterfront in 1978 the first waterfront plan was created by the waterfront board of the planning commission this plan developed a series of guidelines around redevelopment it focused on

Access and circulation and important visual core corridors define sub-areas within this within the waterfront for different types of development activity and a range of performance standards several of these both the performance standards and the framework that was established by this plan are things that we uh still employ today

At the same time the city was seeing interest from private development on the waterfront in the late 1970s where a proposal referred to as triad that included more than 100 condominium units expanded break water 100 boat marina and 70 000 square feet of commercial space this was a project that the city has

Supported was uh permitted by the city but uh but uh financing fell through uh and was never completed um the the project on the screen uh dates back to 1980 a 35 million dollar project with 150 room hotel retail space another 100 slip marina and 240 condominiums uh and and

An 18-story building that’s not seen on the slide this proposal did not go well and was eventually withdrawn in the face of opposition from the city and citizens the last major public project was referred to as the alvin alden plan in 1984. this was put together by the alden waterfront

Corp corporation who was able to assemble about 25 acres of property uh on our waterfront and uh working with boston architects ben and jane thompson noted for their work in sandal hall this very complex and comprehensive redevelopment plan eventually died in december of 1985 when the public vote for tax

Increment financing failed to receive a two-thirds majority required for its approval and once again that the citizens reacting to large wholesale private redevelopment of the waterfront so a similar redevelopment proposal came from the railroad itself who owned a tremendous amount of land on the waterfront their proposal for massive redevelopment

Raised the specter of public trust as i mentioned earlier in the presentation a lot of this land was originally late it was filled in the question of who really has the right to determine the use of these lands when it was formerly laid in a landmark vermont’s supreme court decision

The city won a major victory that led to a successful negotiations with the railroad for the city to purchase the property for public use and as a result plans were drawn up for a waterfront park that park was eventually developed and you can see it here in this slide

In 1990 and again in 1998 um the the city and the citizens adopted uh an urban renewal plan this is an urban renewal district uh of the city um that this plan really outlined uh essential guiding principles for how future waterfront development would take place really emphasizing public access

Uh and public enjoyment of the lake and minimizing intrusion of vehicles there were 13 major project elements described in that plan and when it was re-adopted in 1998 some of these have been accomplished some of them hadn’t and it was a total of 22 individual proposals that were part of that project

Uh it wasn’t until 2000 that the city had prepared a plan for the harbor itself although several past studies have been accomplished this comprehensive water use and harbor management plan focused on the entire 3000 acres of burlington harbor which is part of defined under the city charter

Today our waterfront is a very vibrant very active mixed use area this slide coming into focus shows the zoning patterns just looking at the traditional colors here red is commercial and mixed use the yellows are residential all on upland green is public property and the purple is industrial

Where you see the uh the cross-hatched areas uh these are areas that are subject uh private privately owned land publicly on land but subject to public trust law where uses permitted on public trust lands are defined by the vermont supreme court decision i mentioned earlier as well as the vermont legislature so so

We simply implement the types of land uses that are allowed here and they’re extremely limited to public uses and those uses related to railroading and warfarin so as we look forward to continued evolution of our waterfront um we have we struggled with the balance of various challenges and priorities and

The the industrial legacy um left uh a lot of brownfield contamination um virtually every spot of land you’re going to want to dig up in our city and on our waterfront is a potentially ground field site mentioned a lot of the waterfront land is public trust so it has limitations

As to the uses that can take place in those limitations certainly impose great limitations on the economic potential of that property and finally historic resources both land and water i mentioned again that land was filled back in the 1870s and it’s all it’s all a historic resource the number

Of a handful of historic buildings down here not much has been defined and registered as a district but they’re all kinds of resources down here that are eligible for listing as well as resources that are in the water but the priorities of the public are really quite clear um again around uh centering

On public assets economic inclusion so that it’s a place where anybody can go and anybody can feel comfortable it’s not just very high end and particularly as we think about this in more modern context a mixture of uses in year round activity and we’ll talk about those things a

Little bit more as we go forward we’ve used a variety of different tools and made many many different public investments and we’ll talk about some of these in some of these later slides so one of these public investments had to do with um the removal of the or the

Oil storage tanks and i mentioned that began in 1970s with his zoning requirement and by the early 1990s the fuel storage facilities had been completely abandoned about 20 tanks in all were removed from the city’s waterfront many of them by the city itself 1988 was the first public access the first public land

On burlington’s waterfront with the development of the burlington community boathouse this was uh modeled after uh a similar boathouse that uh was on the shore uh going back into the uh early 19th century but was really the first physical presence and because we didn’t own any land

Uh it is a barge that’s floating in the lake and we obtained access to it and that was kind of the first public presence 1992 the city of burlington purchased 45 acres from the central vermont railway and established the urban reserve uh this area of land north of the marine generating plant

Has shown here where my pointer is um is uh land that uh by intention was purchased and set aside uh for a future generation to determine what its use should be as part of the funding to purchase that property were required that at least 40 percent of the land is protected from development

Under a floating conservation easement and one of the ongoing conversations we have here in burlington is uh are we there yet so in 1992 the land was purchased you know what constitutes a future generation um we have a new mayor uh i was just elected in march and

He’s indicated that he thinks the time has come for us to begin having that public conversation about the future of this particular piece of property has a number of limitations it is public trust um it has limited infrastructure it has even more limited access uh but there has long been an interest in

In both private and public development at this site number of other public development activities have gone on over the years from a new coast guard station to the redevelopment of lake street a skate park and a surface parking lot that includes uh pervious pavement and very important storm water management system

As well as public information and restrooms you know one thing i almost forgot to mention that most people think of when they think of burlington is our nine mile bike path the bike path is a rail trail conservation a conversion done back in the early 1990s and

Runs the entire western length of the city including through the middle of our downtown waterfront i’ve also seen a fair amount of private development on our waterfront is shown in these images uh including hotel and condominiums just upland of the waterfront itself off of battery street and a major non-profit investment

This project is the leahy center for lake champlain a 2.2 acre campus on college street recognizing senator patrick leahy’s lifelong dedication to the stewardship of the lake champlain basin it is a lake aquarium and science center it’s also home to the university of vermont rubenstein ecosystem science laboratory as well as

A variety of both water and historical conservation initiatives there’s a navy memorial here ubm has its research vessel here it’s really a tremendous year-round traction on our waterfront and i emphasize the year-round part as being particularly of interest also been non-profit housing development on the waterfront this particular project

Referred to as the depot street housing is um was developed by the champlain housing trust and it kind of falling apart here in my slides but it’s a 40 unit apartment complex 28 apartments or for renters earning up to 60 percent of the median income with six apartments for households at 100

Percent of the median income it’s a leed certified building and uh award winner for a variety of different both energy conservation and sustainable development awards so affordable housing built right on our waterfront and i mentioned the moran center earlier in the presentation this is the former uh electric generating station

Coal fire power generating station and this project is one that the city’s been working looking to see redevelopment of for decades it goes back to the original urban renewal plan and this is the most current iteration of the plans for this site but actual use and program of the building

Remains uncertain in the city’s undertaking another round of seeking proposals so our waterfront today is a major site for community events and festivals from the vermont city marathon usa national triathlon vermont brewers festival lake champagne plain maritime festival discover jazz um in 2009 we celebrated the quadricentennial of the the

Exploration of lake champlain by samuel dishon plane this was really an international celebration with our partners in quebec 13 days of world class performances on our waterfront and boosted 10 to 15 million dollars into our regional economy at a time when we all really needed it so what’s next um burlington was very

Fortunate about a year and a half ago to receive one of hud’s sustainable community challenge grants um and we are currently in the process of developing a comprehensive master plan for both the downtown and the waterfront the project just released a couple of weeks ago it’s a

Draft plan for public discussion and if you’re interested you can see it and download and comment on it through our website but the project really highlights a variety of different redevelopment opportunities on our waterfront seaming together many of these past planning initiatives that have been done over the years but making sure that

They all integrate well one to another uh this image just illustrates the most of the uh the core of our waterfront from uh the ferry terminal um currently this is this area i’m pointing to here is the site of the lake champlain transportation ferry and that moran generating station is up here

That’s really the the core of our urban waterfront area we make a number of different recommendations for redevelopment opportunities both public and private throughout the waterfront specifically one of the issues that we’re challenged with is access to the water between battery street and lake street there’s a major

Embankment and you have to go pretty long way to get from from college street on one end or depot street on the other to get down there if you happen to be up here in waterfront park so we we show a number of different opportunities for stairway streets and

Other mechanisms to get you over the over the embankment and down into the waterfront area in this slide we one of the major recommendations of this proposal is a relocation of the ferry terminal currently located here at the foot of king street we’re proposing to relocate

It down here to the foot of maple street what this allows us to do is to consolidate the mixed use sorry about that allows us to consolidate a variety of mixed-use public and private development uh in this part of the waterfront as well as then industrial and and other public uses

Down here this is the city’s main wastewater treatment plant we show expansion of marina services addition of something on the order of 300 slips potentially in our waterfront aided by the new breakwater and then upland marina support services to support those both transient and seasonal voters we have a tremendous demand for waterfront

Access by the lake there’s something like an eight to ten year waiting list uh to get uh one of our seasonal slips um and if you want to get a transient slim you need to be here early because we’re sold out most nights throughout the summer

The last area here in this very southern end of the waterfront adjacent to the wastewater treatment plant we show an expansion of the city street network relocation of our existing rail yards that are can continue to be an active rail yard for uh fuels uh distribution as well as salt and uh

And cement and other products but it has redevelopment potential um that we want to try to take advantage of while maintaining the rail activity and embracing the access to the lake so that’s the end of my portion of the presentation up here on the screen you see the contact information for all

Three of us uh happy to talk to you uh offline or or otherwise so i’ll see how to hand the ball back all right david thanks so much uh this has been a i think a terrific series of presentations that um reflect different philosophies on waterfront deep redevelopments and and

Preservation um you know from um portsmouth’s uh focus on letting things evolve as well as as rick called the the natural evolution bill talking about balancing the marine and non-marine um interests and david when you were making your presentation i i early on called this the waterfront of broken development dreams

But what you’re talking about now as burlington is is coming up with new plans is looking back at the the old development plans some of which failed but had some good ideas in them and you’re not abandoning those so that’s uh congratulations to you all we have a lot of questions and um

Several uh listeners have asked about sea level rise and that has obvious implications for portland and portsmouth but we also have someone who’s asking about the impact of climate change on lake champlain so i want to ask each of you to quickly address how you’re addressing uh addressing

Climate change particular sea level rise and as climate change impacts upon lake champlain for you david and david could you go ahead and show your screen again sorry um can you put your contact slide back up um i think you need to show your screen again you see my screen now

Yep great thank you yes we see it okay so uh i’ll i’ll speak quickly because i probably have the least amount to say when it comes to uh sea level rise and and the impact on lake champlain from for us the biggest issue is storm water and storm water management

We see uh certainly an increase in the amount and the frequency of of severe storms and when it rains really hard and our wastewater treatment system gets overwhelmed we dump sewage right into the lake and that’s a major issue so part of our waterfront downtown waterfront master plan is really looking

Comprehensively at stormwater management uh to augment uh the system that we currently have in place when it comes to sea level rise um it’s uh it’s a much more complicated factor to understand how does a rise in the sea level influence uh lake champlain that’s another 100 feet higher and

And disconnected through uh system of laws uh this is rick um in portsmouth we’re just beginning his metric this week we just started our first meeting on a uh an adaptation and resilience plan to look at the impacts of sea level rise on the city it’s not not simply the area

That i was talking about in the central waterfront but some of the other areas that are more residential or institutional we have a couple of tidal mill ponds um that are on both the north side and the south side of our downtown and then some creeks that are

Coming in from a little bit further south of the downtown where we already have some significant flooding issues at uh at the very high tides and in northeasters and so we’re starting the process of looking at that and trying to identify where the impacts are both on on public

Public facilities and on private development things we’ll be looking at things like sea walls or existing sea walls or any places we need to be looking at modifying those sewer infrastructure also we’ve been we’ve been in the middle of a we’re in the middle of a long term um

Project to separate storm water and and sanitary sewers and we have a we’re under a epa consent degree decree to update our wastewater treatment facilities and as i mentioned one of those is on pierce island right at the edge of the downtown so we’re about to begin that process and should have a

Preliminary study done in a couple months uh this is bill needleman and i think you know we’re probably in a similar situation to both burlington and portsmouth we too are struggling with storm water issues um we are in addition to trying to to deal with our combined sewer overflows

Like with burlington we’re also uh looking at the quality of the storm water that doesn’t go through the sanitary system and are having to address some major retention facilities that were going to be some subsurface retention facilities and balancing that with you know what happens when those retention facilities

May be underwater and we have worked with the state of maine and the new england environmental finance center to try to understand at least in a first stage how might we approach the policy and infrastructure decisions that higher sea levels will will present us we took the first step working with

Those other two entities to do some scenario-based evaluations on a portion of our city our back cove so we didn’t look at the working waterfront and our inner harbor first because that’s probably going to be the most complicated area so we looked at a portion of the city which is still complicated

And then just try to understand what are the what are the potential costs of doing nothing versus the cost of some predictable implementation an adaptation strategy such as a sea wall or a berm as not as a as a recommendation but as an example of how might you start to weigh the different

Adaptive strategies and you know it’s become very clear we’re either going to have to fill more uh we’re going to have to barricade or we’re going to have to retreat and there’s and there are some areas that we also we want to make sure that we allow estuarian and beach environments to be

Able to migrate which made me have certainly have a uh upland impact so uh it’s it’s a thorny question for which we don’t have answers and we’re just starting to have the conversation okay brittany i believe we are out of time now is that right yeah we are so um

If we didn’t get to know the questions encourage people to contact the speakers individually for answers yes okay well um yeah thank you uh ben and um will uh bill and rick and david for the presentation today um i’m going to switch it over to my screen now and

I’m going to go over just a couple reminders on how the attendees can log their cm credits thanks again thank you thank you thank you all right so first um to log your student credits pretend for attending today’s webcast please go to www.planning.org cm and select today’s date which is

Friday july 27th and then select today’s webcast which is a tale of three waterfronts and this webcast is available for one and a half cm credits and also we are recording today’s session so you will be able to find that along with the pdf of the presentations at www.utah.apa.org webcast

Archive so this does conclude today’s session i want to thank everyone again for attending

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