Browsing by Author "Gannett, Sadie"

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    2526 Downtown West
    (Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2014) Fischer, Thomas; Lee, Haimeng; Gannett, Sadie
    This project was completed as part of the 2013-2014 Resilient Communities Project (rcp.umn.edu) partnership with the City of North St. Paul. As part of a Redevelopment Master Plan, the City of St. Paul identified live/work housing as a priority. The goal of the project was to determine the feasibility of this type of development in the City. Project lead Paul Ammerman worked with students in HSG 4461: Housing Development and Management, taught by Becky Yust and Lyn Bruin, to create a development proposal for a potential live/work development in the City. The students' final report and poster are available.
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    Metropolitan Council Climate Vulnerability Assessment: Narrative Report
    (2017) Ferguson, Vincent; Gannett, Sadie; Hitch, Emilie; Strain, Sarah
    Thrive MSP 2040 prescribes policy goals for the Metropolitan Council. Namely, the document lists Sustainability as one of five desired outcomes that comprise a shared regional vision and identifies “Building in Resilience” as one of seven core land use policies. To address these two items and align with Thrive, the Metropolitan Council must respond to the effects of climate change in its planning and operational activities, identify and address potential vulnerabilities in regional infrastructure, and provide related information and assistance to local communities. To fulfill these tasks, the Metropolitan Council is conducting a vulnerability assessment of assets as they relate to extreme heat events and surface flooding, which can be due to a combination of low elevations and topography as well as extreme rainfall events (intense or prolonged rainfall). As part of this larger vulnerability assessment, the Metropolitan Council asked a team of graduate students from the Humphrey School of Public Affairs to consider human vulnerability. For this report, the team has identified specific human vulnerability indicators as they relate to extreme heat, surface flooding, and the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area context and geography.