Matt Fulda - MetroCOG WG Co-Chair

Joanna Wozniak-Brown - CT Office of Policy & Management

Mary Rickel Pelletier, Park Watershed

Emily Pysh, CTDOT - WG Co-Chair

Erik Mas - Fuss & O'Neill

Amy Blaymore Paterson - CT Land Conservation Council

Chris Kelly - Save the Sound

John Truscinski, UConn/CIRCA

Denise Savageau - CT Council on Soil and Water Conservation

Alicea Charamut, Rivers Alliance of Connecticut

Kelsey Sudol - Northwest Conservation District and Lake Waramaug Task Force

Susmitha Attota, Town of Stratford Office of Planning & Zoning

Todd Berman - Avangrid

Megan Raymond, Principal Scientist, Wetlands & Waterways Lead, SLR Consulting

Beth Bernard - CT Forest & Park Association

Nicole Govert, Sustainable CT

George Bradner CT Dept of Ins

Jonathan Kinney - Connecticut State Historic Preservation Office

Working group members: please introduce yourself in the chat.

Yaprak Onat - Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation

GC3 Website: https://portal.ct.gov/DEEP/Climate-Change/GC3/Governors-Council-on-Climate-Change

Mark Urban - UConn Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Wayne Cobleigh at GZA and CT Green Building Council

GC3 Annual Report Slides: https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/DEEP/climatechange/GC3/GC3-2022-agendas-and-minutes/GC3-Annual-Progress-Report-060822.pdf

David Murphy, CIRCA today but sometimes Resilient Land And Water LLC

Hi all - Tyler Archer from Shipman

Sam Alexander, SCCOG

Equity and Environmental Justice 2020 Report: https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/DEEP/climatechange/GC3/GC3-working-group-reports/GC3_Equity_EJ_Final_Report_111320.pdf

Public Participation Guidance: https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/DEEP/climatechange/GC3/GC3-2022-agendas-and-minutes/EEJ-Public-Guidance-Excerpt.pdf

What time on Oct 18th?

Next meeting of this working group is October 18, 11-12:30

Register in advance for this meeting:https://ctdeep.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvcu-rqj4rHtY8Kkg8Uxr5-Z-HJ8VuXmzL

If you have any clarifying questions for New Haven, please put them in the chat.

New Haven is also protecting a new Hotel Marcel at former abandoned Armstrong/Pirelli Tire Building that is pursuing net zero energy, LEED Platinum and first Passive House hotel in the US.

BCEGS is 20 points

What conditions determined the area in New Haven would need this type of resilience planning? Is this the lowest area of the city, or is the infrastructure in that area the most in need, how do vulnerable populations accounted for in these resilience plans? This looks mostly like downtown and Yale's campus... maybe I am wrong. How are you all ranking infrastructure and community vulnerability in the selection?

Are you expecting increasing flooding in Fair Haven? Any plans?

Are you looking at Green roof tops

Lots of parking areas. Would permeable paving help?

Are all storm drains being directed to the new pipeline and outfall so it is a closed system and won't be compromised by storm surge coming up the drainage system? And what design criteria for outfall so that surge can't go up?

@denise drains have backflow prevention, and all improvement will have it as well.

@Gene yes, permeable paving would help. Also our redevelopment standards require on-site stormwater detention and encourage green stormwater infrastructure

Hotel Marcel has solar rooftop and battery storage and needs no fossil fuel to operate. Also has EV chargers and air source heat pumps. CTGBC, CT Passive House and Conscious Capitalism CT Chapter recently organized a building tour for their members.

@Huan, more info on current work CIRCA and New Haven are partnering on for Fair Haven can be found here: https://resilientconnecticut.uconn.edu/resilient-fair-haven/

@George green roofs are a potential solution, although tend to be expensive and situational. Our regulations on private development are more performance-based, and can be a strategy to meet them

@wayne hotel marcel is a shining example of what could be. We are proud to have them in New Haven!

My apologies for having to leave early - I had a pre-determined meeting before this was scheduled. Thank you, Brian, Dawn & Giovanni for your presentations today.

If you have clarifying questions for Brian, please put them in the chat.

Brian - any opportunities upstream to protect land from further development.

Very interesting presentation - I need to drop off for a different call Thanks

Info on some innovative storm water utility work in Milwaukee protecting upstream from City as part of flood control.https://www.mmsd.com/what-we-do/flood-management/greenseams

what is the size of the Harbor Brook watershed, upstream of the project area +

Also, what is the % of development of the upstream watershed?

Are we meant to join a breakout group, or will we be assigned to one?

If you would like to sign up for public comment, please send me a DM

My comment as a "novice" in this space of resilience and NBS is that the NH and Meriden examples were fascinating. What caught my attention was the micro projects like bioswales that Giovanni showed. The analogy that I had was small solar projects - lots of them all over the place, help the whole. How can people be incented to support those sorts of small projects?

And I apologize to my break-out group for forging ahead with a follow-up question, but I didn't want my first comment to be misinterpreted! Thanks for indulging me!

Good comments in the breakout room Tyler.

On the idea of private land owners to act on green roofs, municipalities could create land use permitting incentives.

Bryan Garcia is CEO of the CT Green Bank and member of the Gov. Council on Climate Change

Thanks Rebecca - sorry! I was so excited - cool stuff!

Want to make sure that we expand the definition of green infrastructure to include natural and working lands including forests, wetlands, riparian buffers.

Number 7 nationally

and farmlands too!

https://portal.ct.gov/connecticutclimateaction/executive-order/deep-climate-resilience-fund

Like the idea of incentives for private landowners, review of IWC regulations and allowable conditions, and the important point about engaging the wider community in the planning and implementation of these projects.

Just one note: green roofs are challenging as retrofits because of the weight. Roofs were likely not engineered/designed to support that potential weight. Not a no, just can be expensive to make that determination. Adds another wrinkle and challenge to consider.

Second Denise's comment (and Tyler's add-on!)

Great presentations, thank you!! And I liked the break-out structure!