Milestones are subject to the dependencies in the canonical timeline.
Departmental engineering plus Council/funding/regulatory dependencies: Stormwater Engineering leads, with Council appropriations, grants, and permits shaping delivery.
The problem
Every rainy season, Tampa families move cars to higher ground, sandbag doorways, and wonder whether this is the storm that finally floods the living room. They've heard flood promises before — and then watched the same streets flood again. Flood-Ready Tampa treats flooding as an engineering problem with a published baseline, a ranked project list, and an annual report card, so residents can see what's being fixed and in what order.
The plan
Stand up the Flood Resilience Operating System as the flagship chapter's backbone: a verified stormwater asset baseline, a watershed master plan, basin scorecards, and a risk-ranked capital pipeline — published before the city claims any progress.
Run the work engineering-led and technology-neutral: green-gray alternatives evaluated on the merits, a forecast-informed real-time control pilot where suitable, and an annual performance report so the public can hold the administration to the numbers.
How you’ll know it’s working
- Published flood baseline, prioritization framework, and portfolio prototype
- Basin scorecards and risk-ranked pipeline published in Year One
- Annual performance report on flood interventions
- Measured flood-risk reduction in treated basins, reported publicly
From the Blueprint
- Blueprint frames flood resilience as a managed portfolio: a public flooding-reduction target with quarterly KPIs on a dashboard.
- Major infrastructure dashboards show stormwater project budgets, timelines, and funding sources.
Sources and research conditions
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SOURCE-SUPPORTED; FISCAL MODEL; BASELINE DATA
Milestones are subject to the dependencies in the canonical timeline.