Historic Triangle RAFT Project

The RAFT project in the Historic Triangle of Virginia has just concluded its assessment phase. This included a qualitative assessment—interviews, focus groups, and surveys with 52 residents representing 25+ organizations, agencies, or departments—and a quantitative assessment, featuring a review of planning documents in comparison to RAFT’s scorecard. The final scorecards were then turned into Opportunity Lists, a list of suggested activities that corresponds to each place where the local government scored “0” on the scorecard. These materials are available for download below.

The Opportunity Lists and Scorecards for each locality will be used, in combination with the summary report from the Qualitative Assessment, to inform conversation at the August 18^th workshop at James City County Rec Center (5301 Longhill Rd, Williamsburg, VA). The goal of the workshop is to pick resilience action items for the community to implement over the following year, with the RAFT team's help. It is open to anyone who works or lives in York County, James City County, or the City of Williamsburg, and offers childcare for children ages 3+ as well as light refreshments.

Program Agenda

3:30 Workshop Opens for Participants: Feel free to join us early!
4:00 Welcome, Introductions, & Workshop Goals, Tanya Denckla Cobb
4:10 Resilience Assessment Findings

Scorecard review for all three localities, Wie Yusuf
Qualitative Report Overview for all three localities, Meredith Keppel

4:20 Predicted Flooding Vulnerabilities, Molly Mitchell
4:35 Developing Resilience Action Checklists, Elizabeth Andrews
4:45 Break – Moving to Small Groups by Locality
5:00 Resilience Action Checklist Development in Small Groups by Locality
6:00 Break and Reconvene in Large Group
6:15 Locality Priority Action Item Review, Jessica Whitehead
6:25 Implementation Teams Formation, Wendy Stout
6:50 Next Steps and Wrap Up, Tanya Denckla Cobb
7:00 Adjourn