The City of Palm Beach Gardens contracted with WGI to create a Comprehensive Vulnerability Assessment to understand how climate changes will affect the City. The study follows the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) Resilient Florida Program framework for vulnerability assessments. The WGI project team conducted a kickoff meeting with City staff and led the direction of the study within the parameters of the state statutes and the FDEP framework.

The Comprehensive Vulnerability Assessment (CVA) met the criteria under the State of Florida’s Resilient Florida program per Section 389.093, Florida Statutes. The methodology follows the process developed and published in the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit Steps to Resilience and applied to the City of Palm Beach Gardens, reviewing threats in the following categories: tidal flooding, sea level rise, and storm surge. Planning year horizons of 2050 and 2080 were included as required by the Resilient Florida Program.

Project Highlights:

• Comprehensive Vulnerability Assessment
• Data Collection
• Climate Change Planning