Future Olympia

At this point the whole transit center will be flooded. Which means the loss of jobs not only from the people working the transit but those depending on the transit to transportation to work. There will also need to be another transit center rebuilt which which will be complicated due to the rerouting and longer roads to takes to make destinations.  At the moment there aren’t any plans to actually abandon the downtown area, especially since there was a city ordinance that was passed calling for the rejuvenation of downtown Olympia, the heart of the city. So instead the city planners are coming up with long and short term strategies. Some of those include:

• Enact a new SEPA requirement to raise floor elevations that house critical resources in all new buildings.
• Install underground water pumps at critical points.
• Raise the shoreline height.
• Continue to monitor changes in land elevation.
• Update the city’s comprehensive plans to address the impacts of climate change including sea level rise.

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