Thanks so much!

I finally deleted.

Awesome to hear! I hope it is helpful.

Yes sorry if my attempt to live skeet oversimplified his point. I believe he meant avoiding the exclusive/rigid focus on physical structures rather than starting from consideration of how people earn a living, etc.

Wormser: We should focus on resilience in areas uphill, not subject to heat, to prepare to increase density there as we move away from shorelines.

Seth: Environmental justice means focusing on people and livelihoods rather than buildings.

Wormser: Columbia Point is at far more risk of wind and wave fetch from Nor'easters than the seaport.

Christo: While we might want to avoid building in flood prone areas, the revenues from development projects fuel public services and transportation. Thus our discussions must be more nuanced.

Abel: Is Dorchester Bay City (Columbia Point) really Seaport 2?

Seth: Higher flood risk than seaport. It will include some elevation, but some mitigation won't happen until later. Needing phase 2 or 3 of a project to protect phase 1 is a risk.

Christo: The barrier proposed would take 30 years to build; we need mitigation now.

Wormser: The eds and meds elevated the level of their buildings; short-term flippers didn't. Is this what is meant by term "new seaport" in film?

Seth: 3.3 billion gallons annually of sewage flowed into the harbor. The public bore the cost of mitigation.

Abel: But developers created this new problem despite clear scientific knowledge that was available.

Seth: Federal programs now often require 40% of the benefit to go to underserved groups.