Resilient SLO’s Baseline Conditions Report is now available for review! Click on the Project Materials section to read the full document or individual chapters.
Resilient SLO
An initiative led by the City of San Luis Obispo to improve community resilience to the worsening impacts of climate change.
Facing growing flood, heat, and wildfire risks, the City of San Luis Obispo launched Resilient SLO to build local and regional capacity to adapt and build resilience to climate change impacts.
Resilient SLO is designed to be a comprehensive, innovative, and inclusive planning process – one that elevates community voice in decision-making, utilizes best-available science and practices, and focuses on the real challenges that we face in the city of San Luis Obispo: climate change, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and economic uncertainty. The Resilient SLO initiative includes the following key components and activities:
Re-energizing SLO – Building an Energy Resilient Future
Can a more resilient energy system strengthen our economy, increase public safety, and prepare us for natural disasters? Join us from 6:30-7:30 on May 13th, as we explore these topics in the webinar event Re-energizing SLO – Building an Energy Resilient Future.
As part of the Resilient SLO event series, this webinar will also include updates and opportunities to get involved in the City’s Resilient SLO project. Resilient SLO is the City of San Luis Obispo’s planning initiative to prepare the community for the impacts of climate change.
More information about our speakers will be shared in the coming weeks. All are welcome to this community event, please share with friends, family and neighbors!
Register for Re-energizing SLO – Building an Energy Resilient Future!
Stay in the loop on Resilient SLO!
Subscribe to emails for Resilient SLO to receive updates on the project, including upcoming opportunities to provide input and engage in the planning process.
Past Events
Stories of a Resilient SLO, a virtual community event, took place on January 28th, 2021.
Missed the event? Check out the video recording and presentation slides linked below!
The Stories of a Resilient SLO event participants populated this word cloud when asked: What Does Resilient Mean to You?
Share your Stories of Resilience!
Our community has a history of overcoming challenges and recovering from natural disasters.
In times of natural disasters and shocks, the San Luis Obispo community has demonstrated strength and the ability to bounce back. We want to understand how community members have overcome past challenges to inform Resilient SLO, a City initiative to prepare for, and adapt to, the worsening impacts of climate change. Help us build upon your existing strengths as we craft our shared vision for community resilience!
We want to hear your stories!
Do you have a story about how your community responded to a challenge? This could be a story about you or your business, a community organization, your family and friends, or your neighborhood. This could be from long ago or today. Tell us about your experience managing extreme heat this summer, the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, wildfire smoke events, or any other issue that has impacted our community. Through your stories, we want to understand and celebrate how you successfully overcame challenges impacting our community.
Read Stories of Resilience from Community Members!
Watch community members share their stories!
Resilient SLO Baseline Conditions Report
The Baseline Conditions Report (Report) is now available for review!
The Report has been developed to provide a baseline of the City’s current natural hazards that will continue to be affected by climate change in the future. The Report also provides a baseline for key demographic and economic characteristics of the community that are likely to be affected by climate change. The Report serves as the first step in the development of the City’s comprehensive climate change vulnerability assessment and provides a historical frame of reference to understand how climate change will affect the City. The Report will not go through formal adoption by City Council but rather serves to provide important background information to the public for future steps of the Resilient SLO planning process.
Stay in the loop on Resilient SLO!
Subscribe to emails for Resilient SLO to receive updates on the project, including upcoming opportunities to provide input and engage in the planning process.
Join a Resilient SLO Working Group!
Are you concerned about how wildfire, smoke, extreme heat or flooding will impact our community? We want your perspective!
Join a community-led working group to provide input on specific climate hazards and community vulnerabilities. Working Groups will collaborate with members of the Resilience Roundtable to provide critical input that will guide the project. There are three working groups focused on natural systems, built systems, and human systems. To join a working group register to attend the first meeting of the group(s) that you are interested in.
Community Resilience Working Group
The Community Resilience Working Group will focus on topics such as social equity, the economy, public health and emergency operations. The first Community Resilience Working Group meeting will be held on March 4th at 6:00 PM.
Natural Systems Working Group
The Natural Systems Working Group will focus on impacts to aspects of the environment such as forests, plants and animals, and water quality. The first Natural Systems Working Group meeting will be held virtually on March 4th at 7:15 PM.
Built Environment Working Group
The Built Environment Working Group will focus on physical infrastructure, such as buildings, and utility infrastructure. The first Built Environment Working Group meeting will be held virtually on March 2nd at 6:00 PM.
Resilient SLO is a collaborative initiative led by the City of San Luis Obispo.
