Infrastructure and Resilience

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Strategic Plan Goals

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

Be a sustainable and resilient 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 2026 City Commission Priorities

These goals were further emphasized with the selection of Infrastructure and Resilience as a priority for FY 2026 during the City Commission's Annual Prioritization Workshop on January 13, 2026.

Infrastructure and Resilience
The focus of this priority is to identify and implement improvements that will address infrastructure needs relating to water, wastewater, stormwater, transportation as well as ensuring hte City is resilient in its preparation for extreme weather events.

Key Themes for FY 2026 include:

Transportation Infrastructure

  • Improve roadways and paving
  • Connect and improve the maintenance of sidewalks • Develop a process that allows neighborhoods to choose whether they would like new sidewalks
  • Advance efforts toward a tunnel for the New River Crossing
  • Position the City to maximize funding from the Mobility Advancement Program (i.e., Transportation Surtax)

Stormwater Infrastructure

  • Improve stormwater infrastructure and consider neighborhoods for future masterplan expansion
  • Strengthen the City’s resilience to flooding and sea level rise
  • Explore incentivizing developers to assist with climate change mitigation (e.g., solar, electric vehicle chargers)

Water and Sewer Initiatives

  • Implement the Automatic Metering Infrastructure (AMI) project, prioritizing District I
  • Continue efforts to reduce Inflow and Infiltration (I&I) increasing capacity in the wastewater treatment system

Watch the full workshop here.

Strategic Plan Goals

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

Be a sustainable and resilient 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 2026 City Commission Priorities

These goals were further emphasized with the selection of Infrastructure and Resilience as a priority for FY 2026 during the City Commission's Annual Prioritization Workshop on January 13, 2026.

Infrastructure and Resilience
The focus of this priority is to identify and implement improvements that will address infrastructure needs relating to water, wastewater, stormwater, transportation as well as ensuring hte City is resilient in its preparation for extreme weather events.

Key Themes for FY 2026 include:

Transportation Infrastructure

  • Improve roadways and paving
  • Connect and improve the maintenance of sidewalks • Develop a process that allows neighborhoods to choose whether they would like new sidewalks
  • Advance efforts toward a tunnel for the New River Crossing
  • Position the City to maximize funding from the Mobility Advancement Program (i.e., Transportation Surtax)

Stormwater Infrastructure

  • Improve stormwater infrastructure and consider neighborhoods for future masterplan expansion
  • Strengthen the City’s resilience to flooding and sea level rise
  • Explore incentivizing developers to assist with climate change mitigation (e.g., solar, electric vehicle chargers)

Water and Sewer Initiatives

  • Implement the Automatic Metering Infrastructure (AMI) project, prioritizing District I
  • Continue efforts to reduce Inflow and Infiltration (I&I) increasing capacity in the wastewater treatment system

Watch the full workshop here.