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What is the Ivy City Climate Resilience Strategy?

DOEE worked with the Ivy City community to create a Climate Resilience Strategy to reduce the risk of flooding and extreme heat in the neighborhood. The Strategy includes the design of a network of blue-green infrastructure, stormwater management, and heat mitigation projects to reduce flooding and extreme heat while also providing additional benefits for the community, such as improved park space, more shade and greenery, safer streets, and better air quality.

Key Outcomes

• Create a resilience vision and goals based on community input.
• Assess flooding, extreme heat, and social vulnerability in Ivy City.
• Develop a network of concepts design for streets, open space, and parking lots.
• Create conceptual designs for improvements to Lewis Crowe Park.
• Create an implementation strategy.
• Conduct inclusive, accessible, and equitable community engagement throughout the planning process.

Project Timeline

 Fall 2024: 
 Existing Conditions & Analysis of Flooding, Extreme Heat, and Social Vulnerability

 December 15, 2024: 
 Public Workshop #1, Resilience Vision and Goals & Vulnerability Assessment

 April 12, 2025: 
 Public Workshop #2, Climate Resilience Network Plan, Lewis Crowe Park Conceptual Design

 June 14, 2025: 
 Public Workshop #3, Family Day in Lewis Crowe Park, Review Lewis Crowe Park and ROW Concepts

 July 12, 2025: 
 “Beat the Heat” Event

 Winter 2025: 
 Funding and Implementation Strategy, Draft Climate Resilience Strategy

 Fall 2026: 
Ivy City Climate Resilience Strategy published