An official website of the POLICY 27: Mitigate climate impacts
This policy states:
Identify and implement activities and investments that will mitigate current or anticipated climate or weather-related impacts.
Actions
- Investment Priority (IP): Actions tagged with (IP) provide direction to regional investment processes directed by the plan. This includes the Regional Solicitation, which will complete an evaluation to determine the appropriate framework and application of these actions to the Regional Solicitation. Actions could be applied in the Regional Solicitation in a variety of ways including qualifying requirements, application categories, or scoring measures. These actions can also apply to other regional highway and transit funding programs. Investment priorities targeted exclusively at local governments are tagged as local planning (see below).
- Local Planning (LP): Actions tagged with (LP) are requirements or guidance for agencies to incorporate into the transportation element of their Comprehensive Plans, corridor plans, transit provider plans, and other plans that are not regional or statewide. Major items are noted but this is not intended to be a comprehensive list. Local planning tag may also indicate actions with potential local investment priorities that would help support regional goals and objectives that are not tied to regional or statewide investment programs.
- Technical Capacity Building (CB): Actions tagged with (CB) are technical assistance and support activities to provide guidance and best practices to agencies that builds regional technical capacity.
- Partner (P): Actions tagged with (P) are activities that support the regional goals and transportation objectives where the plan is directing partners to take a direct lead. This tag applies primarily to regional or state partners; the local planning tag provides direction to local partners.
- Work Program (WP): Actions tagged with (WP) are work program activities, including staff time and consultant studies, to be worked on until the next scheduled update of the plan in five years. These items are necessary to further research and policy guidance to support the region in achieving its goals and transportation objectives. Work program items are listed at the end of each policy. More complete descriptions of work program items are provided in the Imagine 2050 TPP Work Program.
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Met Council | MnDOT | Counties | Cities | Transit | Other |
| 27A. Identify areas prone to weather- and climate-related issues to mitigate climate and weather-related impacts. Preserve or expand tree cover within transportation rights-of-way. Use tools like the localized flooding map, extreme heat map, and the Growing Shade tool to understand areas of need. Action type: Local Planning |
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| 27B. Design public transportation facilities to maintain user comfort as climate impacts increase (for example, shade, cooling, shelters). When retrofitting facilities, prioritize those in historically disadvantaged communities. Action types: Investment Priority Partner |
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| 27C. Explore plans, programs, and policies that will reduce overall impervious surface, like concrete or asphalt in parking lots, to limit the impacts of extreme heat, urban heat island effects, and stormwater runoff. (See 32B and 32D for related actions.) Action type: Local Planning |
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| 27D. Prioritize and invest in elevation and stormwater systems that reduce the frequency and duration of flooding of transportation assets due to major storm events. Determine an acceptable level of interruption due to flood events. Action types: Local Planning Investment Priority |
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| 27E. Evaluate pavement materials and techniques to support resilience and minimize impacts from more frequent freeze-thaw cycles and flooding events. Action types: Technical Capacity Building Partner |
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| 27F. Develop and provide drainage manual guidance and technical assistance to transportation partners, including green stormwater infrastructure. Action types: Technical Capacity Building Partner |
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| 27G. Prioritize projects that include sustainable and resilient designs or harden infrastructure against extreme weather events. Action type: Investment Priority |
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| 27H. Identify resilience needs and activities for the most common system issues, share best practices, convene partners, and provide technical assistance. Action types: Technical Capacity Building Partner |
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| 27I. Complete and maintain a resilience improvement plan and associated mapping applications. Consider ways to customize to the metro area’s needs. Action types: Investment Priority Partner Technical Capacity Building Work Program |
UMN is the University of Minnesota. MPCA is the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.
