Infrastructure and Resilience

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Strategic Plan Goals

The City's Press Play Fort Lauderdale 2029 Strategic Plan articulates Infrastructure and Reslience as a focus area for the next five years with goals to:

Be a sustainable and reslient community.
As growth continues and threats from climate change increase, the City is focused on expanding capacity and increasing the reliability of its water, wastewater, and stormwater systems. Several projects are already underway such as a new water treatment plant and stormwater system improvements. The City is focused over the next five-years on implementing these projects and ensuring maintenance efforts and processes are in place to sustain these systems for the future. Through these efforts, the City will also emphasize resilience and adaptation to sea level rise so that the City will continue to be a dynamic and thriving metropolitan area well into the future.

Facilitate an efficient, multimodal transportation network.
Each day the City sees a large number of neighbors, commuters, and visitors travel within its municipal limits. While it is encouraging to see the number of people that choose to live, work, or play in Fort Lauderdale, the need for increased transportation options and minimized traffic congestion has become a concern for neighbors. To resolve this challenge, the City is looking to implement micro mobility solutions and leverage investments being made in Fort Lauderdale through the Tri-Rail, Brightline, port, and regional airports. With an attractive variety of transportation options, the car will no longer be the only option to travel from place to place within the City. Additional focus will also be placed on maintaining bridges, roads, and sidewalks as well as installing additional sidewalks for safe and accessible travel.

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FY 2025 City Commission Priorities

These goals were further emphasized with the selection of Infrastructure and Resilience and Transportaiton and Traffic as priorities for FY 2025 during the City Commission's Annual Prioritization Workshop on January 19, 2024.

Infrastructure and Reslience
The focus of this priority is to identify and implement improvements that will address infrastructure needs relating to water, wastewater, stormwater, and the public right-of-way as well as resilience needs relating to extreme weather events and sea level rise.

Key Themes for FY 2025 include:

  • Plan for the future capacity requirement at the George T. Lohmeyere Wastewater Treatment Plant
  • Enhance waterway quality (e.g., create a Chief Waterways Officer)
  • Stormwater drainage cleaning
  • Address flooding from upstream water sources
  • Expand the Utility Undergrounding Program
  • Encourage commercial recycling and enhance the Green Your Routine program
  • Explore funding opportunities for dredging City canals
  • Expedite ordinance creation
    • Tree Canopy
    • Trash Ordinance (i.e., addressing medical waste)

Transportation and Traffic
The focus of this priority is to develop programs and implement strategies to improve traffic flow and evaluate new solutions that will alleviate traffic congestion within the City.

Key Themes for FY 2025 include:

  • Enhance bike lanes (e.g., Laudertrail)
  • Strategic trafic management and calming (e.g., seek partnerships with developers)
  • Continue and enhance Microtransit initiatives
  • Focus on pedestrian safety and walkability
  • Enhance multimodal transportation options (i.e., ways to reduce traffic congestion and move people efficiently)
  • Address failed roadways (e.g., Bayview Drive roadway condition)
  • Complete sidewalk gap assessment and explore fundign sources for additional sidewalks
  • Explore options to ensure sufficient parking
  • Continue to explore New River cross options
  • Traffic enforcement

Watch the full workshop here.



Strategic Plan Goals

The City's Press Play Fort Lauderdale 2029 Strategic Plan articulates Infrastructure and Reslience as a focus area for the next five years with goals to:

Be a sustainable and reslient community.
As growth continues and threats from climate change increase, the City is focused on expanding capacity and increasing the reliability of its water, wastewater, and stormwater systems. Several projects are already underway such as a new water treatment plant and stormwater system improvements. The City is focused over the next five-years on implementing these projects and ensuring maintenance efforts and processes are in place to sustain these systems for the future. Through these efforts, the City will also emphasize resilience and adaptation to sea level rise so that the City will continue to be a dynamic and thriving metropolitan area well into the future.

Facilitate an efficient, multimodal transportation network.
Each day the City sees a large number of neighbors, commuters, and visitors travel within its municipal limits. While it is encouraging to see the number of people that choose to live, work, or play in Fort Lauderdale, the need for increased transportation options and minimized traffic congestion has become a concern for neighbors. To resolve this challenge, the City is looking to implement micro mobility solutions and leverage investments being made in Fort Lauderdale through the Tri-Rail, Brightline, port, and regional airports. With an attractive variety of transportation options, the car will no longer be the only option to travel from place to place within the City. Additional focus will also be placed on maintaining bridges, roads, and sidewalks as well as installing additional sidewalks for safe and accessible travel.

View the City's Progress Toward this Goal

FY 2025 City Commission Priorities

These goals were further emphasized with the selection of Infrastructure and Resilience and Transportaiton and Traffic as priorities for FY 2025 during the City Commission's Annual Prioritization Workshop on January 19, 2024.

Infrastructure and Reslience
The focus of this priority is to identify and implement improvements that will address infrastructure needs relating to water, wastewater, stormwater, and the public right-of-way as well as resilience needs relating to extreme weather events and sea level rise.

Key Themes for FY 2025 include:

  • Plan for the future capacity requirement at the George T. Lohmeyere Wastewater Treatment Plant
  • Enhance waterway quality (e.g., create a Chief Waterways Officer)
  • Stormwater drainage cleaning
  • Address flooding from upstream water sources
  • Expand the Utility Undergrounding Program
  • Encourage commercial recycling and enhance the Green Your Routine program
  • Explore funding opportunities for dredging City canals
  • Expedite ordinance creation
    • Tree Canopy
    • Trash Ordinance (i.e., addressing medical waste)

Transportation and Traffic
The focus of this priority is to develop programs and implement strategies to improve traffic flow and evaluate new solutions that will alleviate traffic congestion within the City.

Key Themes for FY 2025 include:

  • Enhance bike lanes (e.g., Laudertrail)
  • Strategic trafic management and calming (e.g., seek partnerships with developers)
  • Continue and enhance Microtransit initiatives
  • Focus on pedestrian safety and walkability
  • Enhance multimodal transportation options (i.e., ways to reduce traffic congestion and move people efficiently)
  • Address failed roadways (e.g., Bayview Drive roadway condition)
  • Complete sidewalk gap assessment and explore fundign sources for additional sidewalks
  • Explore options to ensure sufficient parking
  • Continue to explore New River cross options
  • Traffic enforcement

Watch the full workshop here.