Jacksonville created a Chief Resilience Officer in 2020 and adopted Resilient JAX as the citywide adaptation framework. The plan addresses sea-level rise on the St. Johns River, hurricane risk, and stormwater investment but has not declared a formal climate emergency.
Mayor Lenny Curry signed Executive Order 2020-02 creating Jacksonville's Chief Resilience Officer, and the City Council appropriated funding through Ordinance 2021-95-E to launch the Resilience Office under Public Works. The office published the Resilient JAX strategy in 2023 covering sea-level rise on the St. Johns River, repetitive flood loss properties, urban heat, and hurricane preparedness. Unlike Miami's R-19-0247 climate-emergency declaration, Jacksonville has not adopted a formal emergency resolution or net-zero target. Implementation runs through capital improvement projects, the Storm Resiliency and Infrastructure Development Review Committee, and Drainage System Rehabilitation funded by the half-cent sales tax.
The Resilient JAX strategy is non-penal policy. Implementing rules such as flood-elevation standards (Ord. Code 250), stormwater fees (Ord. Code 754), and tree-canopy mitigation under Ord. Code 656.1203 carry their own enforcement.
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