Focus Group - English

The City of Chelsea is looking for focus-group participants who live in Chelsea and work in construction, landscaping, maintenance, design, or engineering!Focus groups participants will play an important role in the City's effort to design zoning and land use updates that ensure new development and redevelopment advance climate goals and address critical issues like stormwater flooding, coastal flooding, and urban heat mitigation. The City will host three focus groups to collect feedback (1 in virtual in English, and 2 in-person in Spanish). ENGLISH Session — Contractors & Industry EmployeesTuesday, April 28 | 8 a.m. – 10 a.m.Virtual via ZoomRegister Sesión en ESPAÑOL — Contratistas y Empleados de la IndustriaJueves, 30 de abril | 8 a.m. – 10 a.m.En persona en La Colaborativa, 63 Sixth Street, Chelsea, MARegister Sesión en ESPAÑOL — Buscadores de Empleo y JóvenesLunes, 4 de mayo | 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.En persona en La Colaborativa, 63 Sixth StreetRegister The City’s departments of Housing & Community Development and Permitting & Land Use Planning are committed to working with partners at GreenRoots and La Colaborativa to engage residents in this process and explain why making these updates is essential to meeting the community’s climate goals. These efforts are funded by a $313,600 Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) Action Grant from the Healey-Driscoll Administration to implement "Stronger, Smarter, Greener: Implementing Resilient Zoning & Design in Chelsea." As part of this work, the City will also develop a resilient design guidelines document that will be publicly released and serve as a resource for climate adaptation in Chelsea.  The recommendations produced from this project will incorporate flexibility for future updates based on emerging climate science, new data, and evolving models of sea level rise, stormwater, and heat, ensuring Chelsea remains adaptable to changing environmental conditions. These strategies will support equitable, inclusive decision-making and ensure that Chelsea’s Green Zoning policies directly reflect the needs and experiences of its most climate-vulnerable residents.