Greg Braswell from the Hydraulic Engineering section of the San Francisco Public Works, Calvin Gee from the Sustainable Streets division of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, and Greg Riessen from Treduction will join Julie Christensen, the Executive Director of the Green Benefit District to review WSU Adaptive Water Urbanism Initiative’s design progress after the Climate-Proofing Dogpatch and Potrero Hill workshops. The focus of the discussion will be on synergizing water management with transportation planning for the Green Benefit District and reviewing sea level rise adaptation alternatives for the Central Waterfront area between the Islais Creek and Mission Creek outlets.
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With the help from the GBD, the initiative will host five community workshops in San Francisco from January 26 through January 29. The workshop will be focused on the impacts of climate change on the Dogpatch and Potrero Hill area, and how we can prepare for these changes. To sign up for the workshop(s), go to www.GreenBenefit.org/workshop.
These workshops are an opportunity for an intergenerational mix of high school and college students, neighbors and stakeholders and experts to look specifically at the challenges the Dogpatch and NW Potrero Hill Green Benefit District (GBD) will face in the years to come. Together, we hope to conceive solutions that will help the GBD cope with and adapt to those changes while responding to the impacts of other sea-level-rise-adaptive measures being proposed for the adjacent waterfront properties. Most importantly, we will brainstorm how the GBD can begin taking steps now to be more resilient down the line.
The workshops will provide a hands-on adaptation educational experience focused on the GBD as a test case to think about how to use ecodistrict design principles to help mitigate the impacts of climate change, like water shortages, and sea level rise. The workshops are being organized with the help of the GBD. We expect to have expert presence from the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, the City of San Francisco’s Public Works and Planning departments, the San Francisco Municipal Transit Authority, the Port of San Francisco, SPUR, and environmental design and engineering firms.
Five workshops will be held between January 27 and 29, each lasting approximately 3 hours. Each will follow the same format, but different guest experts may attend each workshop. You may attend one or more workshops. The workshops will be held in the Slovenian Progressive Home located at 2101 Mariposa Street at the following times:
Workshop 1: January 27 (Friday) from 3 pm to 6 pm
Workshop 2: January 28 (Saturday) from 9 am to 12 pm
Workshop 3: January 28 (Saturday) from 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Workshop 4: January 29 (Sunday) from 9 am to 12 pm
Workshop 5: January 29 (Sunday) from 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm
There will be no costs to you for taking part in the workshop. You will not receive money or any other from of compensation for taking part in the workshop(s). Your participation in the workshop is free and voluntary and you can withdraw at any time. The only requirement is that you read the following notification memorandum before attending the workshops and indicate your preference to be or not to be photographed, voice-recorded, and video-recorded when you provide your signature on a sign-in sheet at the workshop(s). The memo can be downloaded after you sign up at www.GreenBenefit.org/workshop. Email hope.rising@wsu.edu or call 503-962-0220 if you have questions or need more information prior to the workshops.
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Bimayendra Shrestha from the San Francisco Public Works will give a training session on using EPA’s Storm Water Managment Model (SWWM) to perform water balance modeling for community-owned utility planning. We will learn how to use SWMM to size water urbanism prototypes to mitigate flooding and sewage backup and maximize water retention and detention.
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Rosey Jencks from the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission will give a talk and discussion session on ecodistrct-making principles using net-zero water reuse case studies from San Francisco. She will also discuss community-owned utilities as building blocks for transforming the Green Benefit District into an ecodistrict.
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Nicholas Birth, Bumayendra Shrestha, and Julio Maravilla from the San Francisco Public Works will give a presentation on the synergistic flood resiliency projects they had undertaken. They will also demonstrate how to use flood risk analyses to size a polder park, a below-sea-level open space designed to be isolated from the water level in the adjacent water bodies. The polder park is being discussed as a potential coastal resiliency measure to protect the Central Waterfront neighborhoods from the impacts of sea level rise and storm surges.
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Location: 312 Carpenter, Washington State University
Forest City’s Development Director, Kelly Pretzer, will give a talk on Pier 70’s Sea Level Rise Adaptation Strategies. Kelly focuses on all phases of the entitlement process for Pier 70, including environmental review, design review and project approvals. She has worked closely to help manage the design, engineering and planning teams. Ms. Pretzer joined Forest City in 2013. Prior to Forest City, she worked at the San Francisco Mayor’s Office as the Deputy Director of Legislative and Government Affairs. Ms. Pretzer also worked at the Office of Economic and Workforce Development where she managed numerous multi-phase projects, including: Treasure Island/Yerba Buena Island Redevelopment, Parkmerced, Octavia Boulevard/Central Freeway, and the America’s Cup.
Credit: San Francisco Public Press
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Join us for a discussion on San Francisco’s Water History with Joel Pomerantz, the Author of The Seep City Water Log Book.
Time: 6 p.m. on January 27 (Fri.)
Location: The Progressive Slovenian Hall
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Join us for a tour of the Green Benefit District and its adjacent areas. You will be accompanied by Julie Christensen and Kat Sawyer from the Green Benefit District, Greg Braswell from the San Francisco Department of Public Works, Professor Hope Hui Rising, and seven students from the Washington State University. We will look for potential intervention sites for implementing adaptive water urbanism strategies and discuss the potential of these sites’ natural and man-made water systems in adapting the Green Benefit District to the impacts of sea level rise, drought, and flooding.
Credit: The Dogpatch and NW Potrero Hill Green Benefit District
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Location: 312 Carpenter, Washington State University
Ryan Jackson from the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s (SFPUC) Urban Watershed Management Program will be speaking about green infrastructure opportunities for the Dogpatch and NW Potrero Hill Green Benefit District. The presentation will cover SFPUC’s approach to green infrastructure, including regulation, grants, and capital projects in addition to infiltration constraints, opportunities, and resources available for implementing green infrastructure opportunities in the Green Benefit District.
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Hope Hui Rising, assistant professor of Landscape Architecture with Washington State University’s School of Design + Construction, moderated and presented in a panel entitled “Water Urbanism: Water as a Driver for Urban Design and Landscape Architecture,” at the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Annual Conference, Oct. 21-24 in New Orleans.
Her panelists included Dennis Carmichael, an ASLA Fellow and a former president for the society, and Prisca Weem, Stormwater Manager from New Orleans’ Office of Mayor.
“Delta cities will continue to be vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and sea level rise even after having maximized their water retention capacity,” said Rising. “Promoting upstream water retention through implementing water urbanism in upstream cities is a more cost-effective way to mitigate floods in delta cities.”
The panel was attended by more than 200 landscape architecture practitioners, educators, researchers, and students. Licensed landscape architects and certified urban planners in attendance received continuing education credits. The content of the panel will be offered by ASLA as an online continuing education course for a broader audience interested in better addressing the compounding effects of coastal, riverine, and inland flooding to better adapt delta cities to the impacts of climate change and sea level rise.
Prototype water system used in urban design, from the 2016 Water Urbanism panel.
Rising discussed the use of controlled flooding, room for the river, and multiple lines of defense to address inland flooding, riverine flooding, and coastal flooding through water urbanism. Water urbanism is a water-coherent approach to urban design that redefines Low-Impact Development as a stormwater management approach by addressing the impacts from not only developments but also climate change and sea level rise.
Due to the lack of proactive funding, climate adaptation has been largely funded indirectly by taxpayers nation-wide through the Federal Emergency Management Agency as an after-thought in post-disaster cities like New Orleans, says Rising. However, research shows that upstream water retention is more cost-effective than downstream. Most upstream water retention has been provided through reservoirs within river channels. Delta cities will continue to sink due to sediment trapping by upstream reservoirs.
Rising urged upstream cities to make the shift towards incorporating an intelligent amphibious transportation system into their right-of-ways to help delta cities, such as New Orleans, mitigate flooding. Such amphibious right-of-ways, she said, could be designed to provide ecosystem services, such as energy generation, to help both upstream and delta cities finance long-term climate adaptation strategies.
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