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Available for Public Comment until January 19, 2026
The draft Ivy City Climate Resilience Strategy is available for review and public comment for a sixty (60) day comment period beginning November 19, 2025. See Attachments below to download the document.
- To submit comments, please send an email with your written comments to [email protected].
What is the Ivy City Climate Resilience Strategy?
DOEE has workedis working 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 will 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 flood and heat mitigation network plan, including concept design for streets, open space, and parking lots.
- Create conceptual designs for improvements to Lewis Crowe Park.
- Create a funding and implementation strategy for the recommended resilience actions.
- Conduct inclusive, accessible, and equitable community engagement throughout the planning process.
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The Urban Heat Island Effect occurs when natural land cover is replaced with dense concentrations of pavement, buildings, and other surfaces that absorb heat. By increasing natural surfaces like vegetation, green infrastructure can mitigate the heat island effect. |
Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) is a type of stormwater management that connects the water cycle (blue) with vegetation (green) and community priorities. BGI helps to mitigate the impacts of flooding and extreme heat, while also reducing the need for traditional gray infrastructure. |
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
2026: Final Climate Resilience Strategy published
