12—Develop and adopt consistent resilient design guidelines for buildings in areas vulnerable to flooding, extreme wind, and heat.
Deadline: 2018
Complete
In 2019, the city partially completed this by developing guidelines for city buildings only.
In March 2019, the Mayor’s Office released the Climate Resiliency Design Guidelines (CRDG), which outlines strategies for how NYC will protect its infrastructure from the effects of climate change. The CRDG applies to the planning of new capital projects or substantial improvements to city facilities only, while the original OneNYC indicator was to develop a CRDG for all buildings. The CRDG requires environmental hazards resulting from extreme weather events to be considered when new projects or large improvements are taking place. These extreme events include increasing temperatures, increasing precipitation, and sea level rise.
Capital projects determined in the Climate Resiliency Design Guidelines will help reduce flooding for the city’s most vulnerable people.
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Green, resilient infrastructure will alleviate flooding, especially for neighborhoods like Rockaway Beach, Queens, which was one of the neighborhoods hardest hit by Superstorm Sandy in 2012.
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The city originally used the In-Season Commuter Cycling Index for this indicator, but has since stopped using it. However, according to the NYC Department of Transportation, cycling increased 55% between 2012 and 2017.
In April 2020, the city temporarily suspended organics collection due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Before the suspension, while some neighborhoods had the option to enroll in curbside collection, the programs did not serve all New Yorkers.