Mayport, Florida, a historic fishing village, working waterfront and home to Naval Station Mayport, faces the critical need for strategies to enhance the long-term resiliency of its community, infrastructure and shoreline. The objective of this thesis is to generate design alternatives based on community feedback and conduct an alternatives analysis to select a preferred option. This alternative will guide future co-design sessions with the Mayport, Florida, community, aiming to improve their shoreline and accommodate transportation at the 'Little Jetties' through Nature-based Solutions (NbS). This objective will be achieved by first exploring alternative participatory frameworks, then incorporating preliminary inventory and community feedback data to develop six design alternatives. These alternatives will provide materials for future co-design phases, demonstrating how the preferred option best responds to site conditions and community feedback. This process will support the co-creation of meaningful, resilient and adaptive design solutions with the Mayport community.
