Cedar Falls
Resilience
Plan & Framework
Commitment & Creativity for a Better Tomorrow
The Resilience Plan was presented at the
Community Relations & Planning Committee meeting
on Monday, May 16, at 5:10 pm
at the Community Center
528 Main Street.
Be part of creating a more vibrant and resilient Cedar Falls!
The City of Cedar Falls is developing a Resilience Plan & Framework to guide our community's lasting, and rewarding future. The plan will address today's challenges and opportunities, and it will help us all collectively thrive in a rapidly changing world. We invite you to participate and share your ideas through online workshops, worksheets, surveys, and meetings starting in late September of 2020 and tentatively scheduled for completion in the late spring or early summer of 2022.
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Thank you
to everyone that provided comments on the DRAFT Resilience Plan!
The City of Cedar Falls invites the community to review and comment on the
DRAFT Cedar Falls Resilience Plan.
The Resilience Plan will be available for public download on this website from April 13 to April 27, 2022. Citizens can submit input and questions online in the link below.
Following the public review period, the Resilience Plan may be updated based on the collected community feedback. It will then move forward for City Council consideration tentatively scheduled in late spring or early summer 2022.
The City of Cedar Falls invites the community
to a public presentation for the Cedar Falls Resilience Plan on April 12 from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Cedar Falls Community Center (528 Main Street).
The Resilience Plan will be available for public viewing on this website from April 13 to April 27. Citizens will be able to submit input and questions online as well.
Following the public review period, the Resilience Plan may be updated based on the collected community feedback. It will then move forward for City Council consideration tentatively scheduled in late spring or early summer 2022.
About the Cedar Falls Resilience Plan
The Cedar Falls Resilience plan was created following the initial public kick-off in the fall of 2020. It includes input taken from multiple community workshops held in October of 2020. Due to COVID-19 precautions, these workshops were held online.
On November 10, 2020, the information from the workshops was presented at a virtual Town Hall meeting. The public feedback gathered from that meeting was then used as the foundation for creating a series of three worksheets. These worksheets were available to the community beginning in mid-December 2020 and wrapped up in mid-March 2021. The results were used to draft the Cedar Falls Resilience Plan.
The Resilience Plan identifies actions needed as a community supporting a collective goal to be a resilient city. It provides a guide that not only utilizes existing community plans and actions, but also includes sought after public involvement to identify additional actions needed to improve our prosperity and stability.
Worksheet Three
Worksheet Three is Now Closed
Community participation was open March 23rd and
closed on Midnight, March 30th.
Thank you to everyone that participated!
Resilience Plan Worksheet responses are used for guidance by the Cedar Falls Resilience Planning team. Three Worksheets are planned between December and March of 2021.
The Workheet and Public Survey page is Here.
The Worksheet responses are used for guidance by the Cedar Falls Resilience Plan team. Two Worksheets have been completed between December and January of 2021. This is the third and final Worksheet. It will cover the three primary categories of the plan: Local Economics and Community; Ecology and Weather; Energy, Mobility and Waste.
Worksheet builds from the previous planning work completed in the fall of 2020. Your participation is vital to creating a successful plan. We estimate it will take 10 to 20 minutes to complete this worksheet.
About the stepwise planning process: The process being used to develop the resilience plan follows a stepwise approach. It is sequential, incrementally building forward from what was learned or accomplished from each previous step or activity. You can find our more Here.
You can stay informed about the next Worksheets by signing up for Project Notifications Here.
This Worksheet is Now Closed.
Worksheet Two
This Worksheet is now closed.
Worksheet Three is planned for late March.
Resilience Plan Worksheet responses are used for guidance by the Cedar Falls Resilience Planning team. Three Worksheets are planned between December and March of 2021.
The Workheet and Public Survey page is Here.
This is the second Worksheet. It builds from the responses received from the December Worksheet. This Worksheet will cover specific aspects of the resilience plan: the Built Environment, Community, and Local Economics.
Your participation is vital to creating a successful plan. We estimate it will take 10 to 20 minutes to complete this worksheet. This worksheet opened Wednesday, January 20th and closes Wednesday, January 27th at midnight.
About the stepwise planning process: The process being used to develop the resilience plan follows a stepwise approach. It is sequential, incrementally building forward from what was learned or accomplished from each previous step or activity. You can find our more Here.
You can stay informed about the next Worksheets by signing up for Project Notifications Here.
This Worksheet is now closed.
Worksheet Three is planned for late March
Worksheet and Survey
These worksheets + Surveys have closed.
Thank you to everyone that participated!
The next round opens in Mid-January
Read about the planning process at:
https://cfresilience.com/about-1
Sign up for notifications at: http://www.cedarfalls.com/notifyme.
“Think global, Act local”
is a commonly used phrase to call people to action. The City of Cedar Falls Resilience Planning effort is just that…a call to action.
The planning process began in October with general surveys and a series of six community workshops which focused on energy, the environment, water and flooding, the economy and jobs, diversity and equity, and community cohesion to gather ideas from the community. The next step in the process is a series of three focused Worksheets. You can learn more about the process at: https://cfresilience.com/about
Each of these worksheets will help refine the community’s priorities and preferences for initiatives that will help make the community more resilient.
The Public Surveys
were open for three separate rounds of community input (September, October and December).
They have now closed. The community input gathered will help to shape the Resilience Plan direction
and content.
Thank You to all that participated!
Online Town Hall Meeting
The online Town Hall meeting summarizing the Big Idea Workshop results was held on Tuesday, November 10, at 7:00-8:00 PM. If you were not able to attend the virtual meeting in person, you can still catch up the workshop outcomes by watching the event video.
Watch the Summary Town Hall Meeting Video:
https://youtu.be/RqxUN81b-KM?t=1
Online Big Idea Workshops
Six Big Idea online Public Workshops covering Water, Weather, Energy, Mobility, Ecology, Land, Jobs, Business, Equity, Diversity, Community Cohesion, Civic Services + more were held between October 20th and October 29th.
Online Self-guided workshops for the six Public Workshops was opened the day following each workshop. While direct participation in these self-guided workshops is now closed, videos providing valuable data and reference information on weather, climate, social equity, economics, the Cedar Falls community + more are still available.