Ladd Keith
I presented the Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard™ for Heat results for the City of Tempe, Arizona with @SaraMeerow recently, where we found that heat mitigation policies are targeting the socially vulnerable areas of the city but often not the hottest areas. The full report is online at https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/666700 #urbanplanning #extremeheat #urbanheat #heatresilience #planintegration
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We also had workshop participants conduct the PIRS™ for Heat process themselves to find heat mitigation policies in a variety of Tempe plans - and had a great dialogue afterward on improving policy language in future plan updates. Our full PIRS™ for Heat guidebook is online at https://www.planning.org/publications/document/9257652/
Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard for Heat

This guidebook explains the rationale for the PIRS™ for Heat, provides a step-by-step guide for any practitioner or researcher interested in applying the methodology, includes a detailed and ready-to-go worksheet, and summarizes key plan integration findings from five communities across the U.S.

American Planning Association