The Resilient Living Shoreline Micro Smart Park

Convert a lot or bay front park into a pilot site for a resilient living shoreline micro smart park.

The idea is small with huge implications. Convert a lot adjacent to the bay in North Coconut Grove into a pilot site for a resilient living shoreline micro smart park. It would make the park and neighborhood more resilient to storm surges, while testing out living shoreline methodologies, new infrastructure innovations, such as bio-active concrete and innovative stepped sea walls with integrated mangrove planters, along with landscape designs that help bring wildlife and promote a more robust shoreline, while increasing amenities at the park through integration of a small solar canopy to support sensing arrays that support water/air quality monitoring, remote mosquito monitoring and lighting. This small park can show case big solutions.

My neighborhood has a lot that is adjacent to the water. It was originally zoned as a street. The deeds were offered up to the city residents. The two owners adjacent to the park, did not want to take ownership of the property, as the local residents use it for their dogs and to sit and enjoy the bay view. Hurricane Irma did significant damage to the sea wall, as in so many other sea walls in the city. This idea would change the topography of the park to a more native living shoreline, while allowing people easy access to the water and improving resiliency during storm surge events. The small footprint of the park allows to test out resilient design methodologies in a controlled budget environment, allowing for future proofing and scaling.

The idea implements a host of new technologies. It makes parks and neighborhoods more resilient to storm surges, while testing out new living shoreline methodologies, new infrastructure innovations; Such as, bio-active concrete and innovative biomimicry inspired stepped sea wall designs with integrated mangrove planters, along with landscape designs that help support wildlife and promote biology, enable wave attenuation during storm surges, while increasing amenities at the park through integration of a small solar canopy to support sensing arrays that enable water/air quality monitoring, remote mosquito monitoring, lighting and general park surveillance.

Miami's threats and vulnerabilities are converging to negatively affect overall resiliency across the city.  Standard construction exasperate the issues we face today, such as marine debris, tidal pollution exchange with storm water systems, natural habitat destruction, and large die offs within the coastal ecosystems.  Our resilient technology looks to resolve the fractured relationship between the watershed, human, their pollution, grey infrastructure and our coastal ecology.  Our hybrid build/natural environment solutions with integrated off grid resilient sensing technologies increase livability standards within our city, heal our biome and increase sense making.

Our resilient technology integration looks to resolve the fractured relationship of the watershed, human, their pollution, grey infrastructure and our coastal ecology.  By addressing these problems with hybrid build/natural environment solutions with integrated off grid resilient sensing technologies, we hope to increase livability standards within our city and while healing our biome and increase sense making.  We also aim to collect meta data via continuous loop monitoring to help advance water quality and pollution standards in Biscayne Bay, which is currently threatened by mass sea grass die offs due to pollution inputs and human activity.

City of Miami is implementing a $400 million G.O. bond to support resilient solutions to the coastal marine infrastructure and the storm water system within our city.  Our smart park solution fits all coastal parks and open spaces, while innovating coastal marine infrastructure and sensing technologies across bay front communities. This will help up adapt to future and current threats of sea level rise and storm surges, which our only getting worse and more frequent in South Florida.

Retention will be achieved through community activation via community engagement events and serious games that drive community aggregation and advance action teams focused on mission critical functions and geo-spatial designation.  This will help develop a neighborhood centric advocacy network, while developing community around the solution.  This will also advance scaling through proof of pilot, while developing traceability of community benefits.

We are still at concept stage moving to our first pilot via the Biscayne Bay Marine Health Summit.  This summit enable federal, state and local stakeholders to come together to bring new policy and pilot solutions to bear for advancement of bay health.  We are on our second summit. This year it is called the Action summit where pilots and policies will be implemented with government officials, academia and regulatory bodies, along side the community and advocacy community.

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Technology, Manufacturing and Resilience Specialist.

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I need to scale our concept and pilots and with the Biscayne Bay Marine Health Summit forthcoming, we could garner maximum impact by bringing more dollars to the table for realizing this solutions approach.

Money and solutions proofing.