Getting to Blue by Going Green

1. Getting to Blue
by
Going Green
Cape Cod
Commission
SNEAPA Conference – October 18, 2013

2. Cape Cod 208 Plan Update
Erin Perry
Special Projects Coordinator
Cape Cod Commission
Engagement Game Labs, Emerson College
Dr. Eric Gordon, Director
Stephen Walter, Managing Director
Cape Cod Commission and Green
Infrastructure
Sharon Rooney
AICP, RLA
Chief Planner
Cape Cod Commission

3. Cape Cod 208 Plan Update
What is it?

4. Clean Water Act Section 208
The Commission was
directed to update the
1978 Plan
The Commonwealth
provided $3 million to
fund the project

5. Focus on 21st Century Problems
Nitrogen:
Saline Waters
Phosphorus:
Fresh Waters
Growth &
Title 5
Limitations

6. Septic systems are the primary source of
nitrogen on Cape Cod

7. 105 Watersheds

8. 57 Embayment Watersheds

9. Nitrogen Removal Required

10. A Regional Issue

11. Approach to the 208 Plan Update
Watershed
Based
Stakeholder
Engagement
Maximize Benefits
of Local Planning
No Optimal
Solutions
Goal:
To generate a series of approaches in each watershed that
will meet water quality standards

12. Four Regions

13. Four Regions

14. What is the stakeholder process?

15. Public Meetings
Watershed Working Groups
Goals,
Work Plan
& Roles
Affordability,
Financing
Baseline
Conditions
Technology
Options
Review
Watershed
Scenarios
July
August
September
October
December
208 Planning Process

16. Public Meetings
Goals,
Work Plan
& Roles
Advisory
Board
Affordability,
Financing
Advisory
Board
RLI
RLI
TAC
Watershed Working Groups
Baseline
Conditions
Advisory
Board
RLI
RLI
Finance
Finance
TAC
Advisory
Board
RLI
RLI
Finance
Finance
August
September
RLI
RLI
RLI
RLI
Technical Advisory Committee of Cape Cod Water
Protection Collaborative
Tech
Panel
RLI
RLI
Finance
Finance
Tech
Panel
October
Tech
Panel
December
Regulatory, Legal & Institutional Work Group
TAC
Watershed
Scenarios
Advisory
Board
Finance
Finance
TAC
Tech
Panel
July
Technology
Options
Review
208 Planning Process

17. Applying a mix of technologies
and approaches

19. Looking at non-traditional
approaches first

21. One interactive tool

23. http://engagementgamelab.org
an applied research lab dedicated to
innovating the ways people participate in civic
life and expanding the study of playful
citizenship in a digital era.

24. What is
Play?
1. activity in which
means are more
valued than ends
2. non-literal,
imaginative, marked
off in some way from
reality (aka magic
circle)
“Let my play be my learning and my
learning be my play”
-Johann Huizinga (1938)

25. The Power and
Productivity of
Play
creates
y
Pla
portunities for
op
l e a rn i n g

26. The Power and
Productivity of
Play
creates
Play
for
ies
opportunit
empathetic
reflection

27. The Power and
Productivity of
Play
creates
Play
fo r
rtunities
oppo
social control

28. Why Games?
•
•
Games frame play
– Simplify complex systems with clear rule
set
– Create clear objectives
– Provide regular feedback towards
achieving those objectives
– Provide opportunity for reflection
Add element of fun
– Discovery
– Exploration
– Challenge

29. Engagement
Games
/enˈgājmənt gām/
Noun
1.The game is the process
2. Acts of play are the real-world actions

30. Think like a game designer

31. [flow chart]
Game start  Game goal
Real Problem  Real Action
/design
Engagement
Games

32. [flow chart]
Game start  Game goal
Real Problem  Real Action
/design
Engagement
Games

33. A
GAME
FOR
planning

34. Gameplay
• Time-based
missions
composed
of
challenges
• Trivia
Barriers
• Face-toFace Finale

35. Actions
1.
Planners collect
nuanced citizen
data from larger
and more
diverse
demographics

36. Actions
2.
Citizens/Players
can create, fund,
rally for, and join
local community
causes

37. Actions
3.
Democratic
deliberation
founded on a
context of civic
learning, social
control, and trust

38. Reach
• Community PlanIt games played
or planned in a dozen cities
throughout the world
• Over 5000 players (so far)
• Over five thousand dollars
raised for community causes
• Over 45,000 comments made

39. Lateral Trust
•
Players tended not to trust in the institutions sponsoring the game
– “There’s a deep history that goes back decades in the city of Detroit particularly
with community planning issues of people being told this is what it’s going to be
or having a community planning input session as just a formality because the
law says we have to take community input. So we’ll write people’s input down
on a piece of paper and then put it on a shelf somewhere.” – Detroit player
•
Players came to the game through social connections or trusted community
organizations
•
Through game play, players developed lateral trust relationships that would affect
their social framing of issues and willingness to engage.

40. Re-imagine who’s listening

41. Flexible Publics
• The online space creates the ability to reimagine traditional publics
and audiences to legitimize participation
• Generational publics
– “I think there were kids in 8th grade doing this. I think like, oh
my god, even kids can be involved. I do think kids have to be
involved because they’re the next generation […] We’re just
ignoring them all the time. Some [of their ideas] are probably
better than a grownup person could have” – Detroit player
– “They sound so fresh, so honest, so unbiased” – Detroit player
– Likewise, youth spoke about the adult public as legitimate, or
making the process real for them.

42. Playful Civic
Learning is the
condition of
reflection on civic
actions as one takes
them.
“I put my comment and someone
disagreed with it. It made me really think,
‘Wait. Maybe they are right.’ Even now I
don't really know who's right, but I feel like
it made me really think about what I
thought prior”

43. Relationships are
key to creating
engaged
communities.
We need to
design playful,
relational,
systems.

44. Demo

45. Cape Cod Commission
GI
Planning Efforts

46. 1.
EPA Technical Assistance Grant
Refine green infrastructure siting criteria
Apply to two impacted watersheds
Select and design two pilot projects
2.
3.
Phyto-technology demonstration project
Next Steps…

47. 2012 EPA Community Partners
Technical Assistance Grant
Impaired watersheds in EJ
communities
Project Partners: Tetra Tech &
Town DPWs
Develop GI siting tool
Design pilot projects
Regulatory pathways
Preliminary cost estimates

48. Developing a
Site Selection Methodology
Goal: Develop a siting criteria
matrix to use in GIS analysis
Water Table Data
Soils Data
Open Space
Other factors
Task: Evaluate site suitability of GI by
listing treatment options against a
list of potential GIS shapefiles

49. Treatment Options Considered
Constructed Wetlands
Permeable Reactive Barriers
Phyto-technology

50. GI Siting Criteria
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Siting Criteria
outside 100 year floodplain
100 - 50 ft buffer to wetland
Zone II's - wellhead protection areas
Soils: disturbed
Soils: well drained
Soils: poorly drained, clay (per soil survey)
not protected open space
outside priority habitat
depth to groundwater > 4'
depth to groundwater <10'
parcels >5 acres
municipally owned, not protected open space
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Mandatory siting criteria
Bonus siting criteria
GI - Wastewater
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51. Potential Constructed Wetlands

52. Apply Method to Two Watersheds
Lewis Bay
Parkers River
watershed
watershed

53. Horace Mann Charter School
Barnstable, MA
Elementary school has significant
open space and impervious area
High Water Table
High Public Exposure
Public Ownership
Connection to adjacent
community center and ball fields

54. Green Infrastructure Proposed at This Site
•
Combination of enhanced (lined system)
and traditional bio-retention for
improved stormwater treatment

56. Former Drive-In Site
Yarmouth, Ma
Former drive-in movie theatre
Historic wetlands were filled
with poor-quality soil
Potential marina redevelopment
plans
Partially located within a
hazardous floodplain with high
groundwater table

57. Green Infrastructure Proposed
at this Site
Traditional Bioinfiltration
Ornamental Landscaping
Phyto-Technology

59. Phyto-Technologies Demonstration
project

60. Phyto-Technologies Demonstration Project
Preliminary Data

61. Next Steps
DEP 319 Stormwater grant
for school site
GI demonstration project
i.d. through 208 plan
Regional Green
Infrastructure plan for
Cape Cod

62. Cape Cod Commission
www.CapeCodCommission.org
Sharon Rooney,Chief Planner
Cape Cod Commission
srooney@capecodcommission.org
Erin Perry, Special Projects Coordinator
Cape Cod Commission
eperry@capecodcommission.org
Dr. Eric Gordon, Director- Engagement Game Lab
Emerson College
eric_gordon@emerson.edu
Stephen Walter, ManagingDirector- Engagement Game Lab
Emerson College
steve@engagementgamelab.org