Houston’s resilience targets

The “Resilient Houston” plan unveiled Wednesday includes 18 goals aimed at mitigating the city and the region’s flooding risk and improve its climate change readiness:

1. Provide at least 500,000 Houstonians with preparedness training by 2025.

2. 20,000 Hire Houston Youth Summer Jobs in 2020.

3. Zero traffic-related fatalities and serious injuries on Houston streets by 2030.

4. Develop 50 neighborhood plans by 2030.

5. Invest $5 million in local artists to create resilience awareness projects across the city by 2025.

6. Plant 4.6 million new native trees by 2030.

7. Build at least 375,000 new homes across every income level by 2050 to welcome new residents to the city of Houston.

8. Remove all habitable structures from the floodway by 2030.

9. Construct at least 500 miles of trails and bike lanes by 2025.

10.Carbon neutral by 2050 in accordance with the Paris Agreement.

11. 100 new green stormwater infrastructure projects by 2025.

12. Eliminate geographic disparities in life expectancy by 2050.

13. Appoint Department Resilience Officers in every City of Houston Department in 2020.

14. Attract or incubate 50 Energy 2.0 companies in Greater Houston by 2025.

15. Provide 100% of Houstonians access to high-frequency public transportation choices within a half-mile by 2050.

16.Conserve 24% of undeveloped regional lands as natural spaces by 2040.

17. Ensure that 100% of Houstonians and visitors have access to accurate, real-time emergency alerting by 2030.

18. Invest $50 billion in major recovery, mitigation, and modernization projects that increase resilience by 2040