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Involving the Community_Sea Level Rise_Oct2016
- 1. Involving the Community in Planning for Sea Level Rise Sharon Pope Manager Integrated Planning October 2016
- 2. Flood Planning - a local government responsibility • Councils are responsible for flood planning and most land use planning in NSW • A recent national review of barriers to effective adaptation states (Productivity Commission 2012, p18) “…local governments will be responsible for implementing the majority of adaptation measures…” • Local Government is well positioned to discuss the issue of flooding with local communities
- 3. Lake flooding now and with sea level rise
- 4. Will consider options for managing flood and permanent inundation risks : • Planned retreat • Accommodate • Defend Local Adaptation Plans No two areas are the same, so options will vary by place Will identify how and when decisions will be made, and who will make them Identify appropriate triggers and thresholds to ensure that actions are taken only when needed Identify who is responsible for specific actions
- 5. Aerial photo Belmont Swansea Belmont South Marks Point 1,200 households Mix of land uses
- 8. Step 1 – With staff, Councillors and the community… Share the dilemma Create a decision-making framework How to solve a complex problem?
- 10. Community concerns • Property values & finance • Being able to stay • Insurance premiums • Lifestyle • Drainage issue
- 11. Step 2 – With staff, Councillors and the community… Work through the dilemma
- 12. Getting it right – insurance information night – March 2014 Community drop-in days Walking tour – July 2014 Drains, Rains and Tides – January 2014 Community Working Group Sub-committee of the Community Working Group Community workshops Community workshops and information sessions
- 14. Step 3 – With staff, Councillors and the community… Identify the options that best fit the location and community
- 15. Are the environmental effects manageable? Will it work to reduce the risk from flooding and inundation? Will it help maintain community lifestyle? Do the benefits outweigh the costs? ‘Showstopper’ criteria for assessing hazard management options
- 17. Lesson: Building community trust takes time and effort and doesn’t stop Keep things simple
- 18. Lakelevelrise(metres) 0.2m Plan for the worst – act when necessary
- 20. Lesson: Identifying options to manage hazards is easy. Challenge comes with assessment. Keep it simple, but work through analysis with the community. The process needs to be flexible enough for community but firm enough to progress.
- 21. Result: A Plan that will stay current beyond political cycles, and that the Community actively uses to seek decisions and funding from all tiers of government.
Notas do Editor
- Councils prepare land use strategies, planning controls and policies (such as Local Environmental Plans and Development Control Plans), and making decisions on development proposals. Councils, and Councillors as individuals, have a duty of care and legal obligations to make reasonable decisions, which include consideration of climate change, flooding, coastal processes and sea level rise. Councils in NSW also prepare Community Strategic Plans and Resourcing Strategies to prioritise how revenue from rates and grants are spent in each local government area. These plans are prepared with input from the community, and reflect concerns and aspirations of the community. For example, in the Lake Macquarie local government area, we have many people living in low lying, flood prone locations. Those communities expect Council to do flood planning and have policies on acceptable forms of new development in flood prone locations, to build infrastructure to protect areas from tidal inundation, foreshore erosion and to reduce the impacts of poor local drainage on roads and private property. In local government areas where coastal erosion threatens infrastructure and private property, those local communities would also expect their councils to be planning for these risks.
- Flood study updated to include 400mm and 900mm SLR benchmarks – adopted by Council in 2012.
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- Use to explain the location and geomorphology. Show covered by the study
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- From ‘Decision Support for Coastal Adaptation’ by Marsden Jacob for HCCREMS Hunter Councils (2012) Useful, but complex for community - Climate change and sea level rise are new paradigms for local government – they are hazards or problems which lots of uncertainty. We don’t have complete knowledge of what the impacts will be, when they will occur, and what future technology and societal norms will exist to help manage the impacts and hazards. We call this a complex problem, and we know that complex problems don’t have simple solutions. Local government usually deals with problems that are relatively easy to resolve, where we prepare draft plans or concepts to address a problem, then consult the community to check that we have the right solution to the problem. For a complex problem we need to collaborate rather than consult (See http://www.iap2.org for more detail). As the tier of government that is closest to people in the community, the most accessible and potentially the most transparent, local government is best placed to undertake real community collaboration to plan for climate change, flooding, coastal processes and sea level rise.
- Apply and revise framework
- Apply and revise framework
- Example of simplifying the process, but crucial to maintain usefulness. Community and Council will be tempted to rule some options in or out based on subjective preference or past experience, before they are tested against the agreed objectives and criteria.
- Summary of the Plan Need to keep some information simple and short, as the majority of people in the community are not interested in reading wordy documents (this was feedback from the community).
- Uncertainty of the future makes the community fearful, and alarmist media messages fuels their fears, which affects relationships with the community and the ability to build trust. Community representatives value third party, independent knowledge and analytical tools that produce favourable outcomes. Trust is built through regular, constructive, transparent dialogue and learning, facilitated by visual aids and regular contact between Council staff and the community. Time and resources spent on issues over which Council has little or no control, such as the climate science, legislative frameworks and planning beyond 2100, needs to be limited, while still satisfying community doubts and concerns.
- How the community can help simplify things.
- Using pictures, photos and diagrams to illustrate concepts helps the community. They still don’t get how drains in low lying areas work/don’t work. We installed flood flaps on two pipes as part of implementation plan. These drains had previously only underperformed in large rain events, east coast lows, and king tides. Once installed they failed for even small rain events. Community asked for them to be removed. Some acknowledged that previous issues must not have been ‘blocked drains’.
- Experience from the pilot process shows there may need to be some movement back-and-forth between phases subject to the needs of the community and their willingness to move on. There may be a need to bring in external experts from other agencies to delivery expert knowledge and assistance, before the project can progress successfully to the next stage. Ongoing ‘hot button’ issues (for example, nuisance drainage issues) may continue to frustrate the community but these should not prevent the planning process from progressing. Ensure sufficient time spent on helping people understand basic planning concepts, in order to move onto more complex problems. Presenting information in ‘info-graphic’ format assisted learning.