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Newport News Interim Local Resilience Plan
City Resilience Planning and Implementation
Introduction
Newport News continues to incorporate resilience into
its numerous planning, program, and project initiatives.
With prior CFPF funding, the City is in the midst of a
Planing three-year, multi-million-dollar effort to integrate its
Documents global resilience efforts, including stormwater
management, floodplain management, and resilience
and climate change, with the most up-to-date data and
information to form a comprehensive stand-alone City-
Resources specific resilience plan. Concurrently, it continues to
press forward in addressing known chronic flooding
issues to protect life and property. This document
Implementation serves as an Interim Local Resilience Plan to describe
Tools the current means, methods, and mechanisms for
addressing resilience as it pertains to citywide flooding
and how the City's current process satisfies the CFPF
Local Resilience Plan elements so we can apply for
and obtain CFPF grant money for ongoing projects
concurrent with our larger integration project.
Figure 3. The City Implements Resilience in Projects
Through the Integrated Use of Resources, Planning
The City's Interim Local Resilience Plan is a series of
Documents, and Implementation Tools
33 distinct living resources, planning documents, and
implementation tools that are applied in conjunction
with one another to ensure the most appropriate solutions are selected and employed, thus ensuring long-term
resilience (Figure 3). The resources, planning documents, and implementation tools identified in Figure 4 are based
on the best data available at the time of their development. They are reviewed and updated as part of the ongoing
master planning effort. The joint application of these resources, planning documents, and implementation tools
ensures that the City's Interim Local Resilience Plan is consistent with the CFPF Local Resilience Plan required
elements:
The City's Interim Local Resilience Plan is project-based as it has already invested significant resources in
the identification of flood reduction and resilience improvement projects. The City has already designed and
constructed many of these projects, including flood relief, infrastructure retrofit, and stream restoration, while
others remain on the City's prioritization list for completion as funding is secured.
The Newport News Interim Local Resilience Plan prioritizes nature-based and green solutions. The City's
multifaceted approach to minimizing impacts associated with flooding incorporates regulatory oversight to
preserve the natural benefits associated with its low-lying riparian areas and floodplains through the
implementation of its floodplain management and Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act programs. Solutions to
flooding issues that emphasize nature-based designs and conservation score higher in the City's
prioritization matrices as they also provide the City with Chesapeake Bay pollutant reduction credits.
Newport News has an obligation to all neighborhoods when addressing flooding issues. The City's Interim
Local Resilience Plan incorporates studies and associated plans to address existing conditions in the City's
socially vulnerable and low-income neighborhoods and identify specific flood relief projects aimed at the
long-term viability of these neighborhoods.
The Interim Local Resilience Plan documents how the City identifies neighborhoods inside and outside of
the mapped SFHA that have experienced repetitive loss and uses the acquired information to further
determine the appropriate long-term flood management solution.
The Interim Local Resilience Plan documents the City's guidelines for property acquisition and relocation,
employing equitable acquisition strategies, and ensuring that acquired properties are either returned to
an undeveloped open space or retrofitted as part of a flood control project.
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