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Resiliency Immediate Strategies and Ideas

Recovery from economic, natural, and health-related disasters is a long-term process that must start from immediate community action. This section explores strategies and ideas for recovery from disasters.

Many disasters, such as a pandemic, are disasters that ignore political boundaries and regional collaborative approaches are necessary. Yet the changes needed to move toward recovery happen fastest at the local level.  

When communities take the time to formalizing the current recovery efforts into plans, policies, and partnerships, a community becomes more economically resilient to future shocks and stresses. Resilience strategies are a mixture of proven best practices and creative improvisation. RRC will expand these strategies and ideas with additional precedents, particularly as the COVID-19 crisis evolves in Michigan.

These immediate strategies and ideas are organized by RRC’s Six Best Practices. We’ve broadened the Best Practice categories to include ideas outside of redevelopment.

Resiliency Guide

Resilience is broad and our path forward must be collaborative. No one agency, field or program can or should claim ownership of this space. As such, RRC has created a guide to help communities better understand - and act on - issues applicable to their community.

Each chapter in this toolkit provides an overview of a theme, then breaks down a set of suggested values, goals, metrics and actions you can use in your master plans, capital improvement plans or resilient climate action plans. Look for when a recommendation ties directly to an RRC Best Practice expectation. These resilient strategies are meant to supplement the RRC Best Practices and provide RRC communities a set of resources that go beyond the RRC expectations.

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RRC Resiliency Toolkit Webinar

Michigan Economic Development Corporation’s Redevelopment Ready Communities team, along with experts from SmithGroup and Michigan’s state and local government, utilities and universities facilitated panel discussion designed to educate and enable communities to implement resiliency best practices.

Strategies by Best Practice

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Plans & Public Outreach

Plans and Public Outreach (RRC Best Practice 1) evaluates community planning and how a community’s redevelopment vision is embedded in the master plan, capital improvements plan, downtown plan and corridor plan.

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Zoning

Zoning (RRC Best Practice 2) considers a community’s zoning ordinance and its other police powers, and how the community utilizes the right-of-way.

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Development Review

Development Review (RRC Best Practice 3) evaluates the community’s development review policies and procedures, project tracking and internal/external communication.

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Boards & Commissions

Boards and Commissions (RRC Best Practice 4) evaluates how a community conducts recruitment and orientation for newly appointed or elected officials and board members. It also evaluates the community's approach to training and communication between key boards and staff.

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Economic Development & Marketing

Economic Development & Marketing (RRC Best Practice 5) assesses what goals and actions a community has identified to assist in strengthening its overall economic health. This best practice also includes an assessment of a community's marketing strategy and website. For this site, we have expanded the Best Practice to include municipal programming.

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Priority Redevelopment Sites

Priority Redevelopment Sites (RRC Best Practice 6) assesses how a community identifies, visions for and markets priority redevelopment sites. A redevelopment ready site is a site targeted by the community and ready for investment. For this site, we have expanded the Best Practice to include municipal investment in infrastructure.

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Reopen Main Street

We’re taking a look ahead at “new reality” possibilities and working to compile potential reopening strategies, ideas, hints and tips for businesses, business districts and organizations as we enter the COVID-19 recovery phase.

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