Local government brought transportation planners and civil engineers, emergency managers and first responders, neighborhood leaders and environmental organizations, parents and business owners to the same table. This led to real-time barricade deployment on dangerous streets, basin-by-basin planning, a platform called WaterWise that brings residents into resilience, and protections and public space that cost less, arrive faster, and come together because city hall pulls other partners in to share the load—including the $1.4 billion Battery Extension, a local and federal project that will shield the peninsula while creating miles of waterfront promenade.
The same approach now guides decisions which are measured in generations. Today, infrastructure, transportation, housing, and land use no longer compete for lawmakers’ attention. Work that began with water in the street became a way of seeing the whole city at once—and the residents whose lives depend on it working together.
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