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Historic & Tribal Cultural Resources Policies

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Policy: Foster partnerships and collaboration opportunities with tribal liaisons and partners.

Adaptation Strategy

Coordinate resiliency planning with tribal groups and representatives through government-to-government consultation. Foster greater collaboration with representatives of local tribal nations and/or intertribal organizations with traditional knowledge of native species diversity and ecological processes and patterns that honors historical knowledge or tribal natural resource management adaptive management and resource protection.

In Progress

Policy: Honor and share traditional knowledge of land management and cultural significance.

Adaptation Strategy

Research, write, and share climate stories, particularly related to historic and tribal cultural resources.

Not Yet Started

Adaptation Strategy

Incorporate Indigenous Knowledge/Traditional Ecological Knowledge (IK/TEK) into the preservation and protection of historic and tribal cultural resources.

Not Yet Started

Policy: Incorporate climate change consideration into historic and tribal cultural planning and stewardship.

Adaptation Strategy

Develop and implement a cultural resources management plan that aims to reduce stress and minimize exposure of historic, archaeological, and tribal cultural resources to climate change impacts.

Not Yet Started

Policy: Preserve and protect historic and tribal cultural resource.

Adaptation Strategy

Practice proactive and robust decision-making for cultural resources. Use modeling and scenario planning to understand likely future impacts of climate change on individual resources; identify intervention options available to mitigate impacts; and implement the intervention measures in a timely manner to maximize preservation efforts.

Not Yet Started

Adaptation Strategy

Consider historic properties of religious and cultural significance to local tribes during consultation to develop appropriate avoidance measures and/or project redesign opportunities to protect resources.

In Progress

Implementation Highlights

The Creative City cultural planning process was launched by Commission of Arts & Culture in FY23 with the following phases of work completed:

Procurement (July - November 2023)
Pre-planning and Research phase (December 2022 to May 2023)
Public engagement (began June 2023)

This project will result in the City’s first comprehensive, long-term plan to advance arts, culture and creativity across the city. It will help set a vision for San Diego’s creative future based on listening and engagement involvement, plus research into the current situation and opportunities in San Diego.

In FY23, the implementation of the Far South/Border North grant program was launched by Commission of Arts & Culture. Sixty artists and cultural practitioners received grant funds to develop and implement public campaigns tied to program goals, including water and energy conservation and climate mitigation.

The Stormwater Department continued expansion of the Think Blue public education and outreach program in FY2023 with a significant investment in paid advertising, continuous updates to the thinkblue.org website, a robust social media strategy, a renewed focus on earned media and educational activities/cleanups with nonprofit partners. In addition, Think Blue initiated an advertising partnership with the San Diego Wave professional women’s soccer team to expand audience reach in key demographics. Those combined efforts resulted in over 45 million impressions (the number of times viewed) for the Think Blue brand and more than 4,000 public service announcements.

The City Planning Department and the Communications Department developed Climate Resilience Social Media Guidelines to identify specific triggers for climate change hazard related communication and a compilation of resources to be shared over social media channels before, during and after climate hazard events. Climate Resilient SD Social Media Guidelines are intended to build upon existing messaging and social media posts from the Communications Department to provide more education regarding climate change hazards, share resources with community members, raise awareness of risks associated with hazard events and support community resilience action.

The City Planning Department regularly coordinates with local research institutions, universities, and other climate resilience experts and leaders. In FY23, the City Planning Department engaged with resilience research and workshops being led by Scripps Center for Climate Change Impacts, UC San Diego, California Sea Grant, California State Parks and Resilient Cities Catalyst.

Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcala

The City Planning Department welcomed Associate Planner to the team in January 2023 to take on the role of Tribal Liaison for the department. In this role, the Associate Planner will collaborate with Tribal communities with historic roots in the City to protect and preserve cultural and Tribal cultural resources. The Associate Planner will consult with Tribal representatives on department initiatives, including Climate Resilient SD policies and projects, to ensure that San Diego's Tribal communities have a voice in the process.

A fountain sculpture and murals at Chicano Park

As part of the FY 24 budget, the Historical Resources section in the Development Services Department was merged with the Historic Preservation Planning section in the City Planning Department, bringing the City's historic preservation program together within the City Planning Department in the newly named Heritage Preservation section. This consolidation allows the City to more effectively designate and manage the City's historical and cultural resources, including planning for and mitigating impacts related to climate change.

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