Best Practice 6 Resiliency Strategies

Best Practice 6 (Redevelopment Ready Sites) 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.

Key Focus for Recovery + Resilience: Redevelopment Ready Sites, Virtual developer forums, streetscape.

Maintain a current inventory of Redevelopment Ready Sites and other opportunity sites

Update and maintain a current inventory of properties and spaces available for sale or lease. Work with existing property owners to make available space ready for investment and ensure space gets filled with the highest and best use.
Make the inventory available online and promote opportunities via social media, networking opportunities, tours, etc.

Hold virtual developer forums

Continue to promote Redevelopment Ready Sites through online meeting platforms. Reach a regional or national audience of potential developers.

Provide business access to streetscape lamppost electrical outlets

Provide public hand-washing stations

Retrofit public drinking fountains. Portable hand-washing stations are typically available from the same vendors who supply porta-potties for events.
Attach custom-fabricated hand-washing stations to existing fire hydrants.
Consider how to extend hand-washing stations throughout the winter.

Continue and expand streetscape decorations

Add vibrancy to important districts with street banners, outdoor art installations (in partnership with local non-profit artist and arts-based partners), and flower donor programs.

Explore Tactical Urbanism and placemaking in important districts

City residents and business owners are likely to be more forgiving of experimentation during disaster recovery.
Use the time to experiment and try new things, new treatments, new features, and new ways to enhance the livability of the city and its neighborhoods.

Provide additional seating in public parks, especially parks within walking distance of restaurants

Expand Wi-Fi and Broadband throughout your community to address the digital divide

Check current Wi-Fi coverage on statewide Wi-Fi hotspot map
Extend Wi-Fi hotspots to:
- Parking lots and parks for remote students, working-from-home workers, and other residents without home internet connections
- Exterior dining and shopping areas