Part 5 of 5 in our August series on Public Safety and Hazard Mitigation in the Comprehensive Plan. In most cities and counties, the Hazard Mitigation Plan and the comprehensive plan live in separate binders — prepared by separate offices, often in separate places, by decisionmakers who don’t know each other, let alone talk to…
Part 2 of 5 in our August series on Public Safety and Hazard Mitigation in the Comprehensive Plan. Every community has natural hazards. Not every community has chosen to shape their future to put resilience to hazards front and center. That distinction is at the heart of hazard mitigation and comprehensive planning. Tornadoes, floods, drought,…
Introducing our August series on Public Safety and Hazard Mitigation in the Comprehensive Plan. In too many communities, the comprehensive plan and the Local Hazard Mitigation Plan live in separate binders — prepared by separate offices, often in separate counties, by decisionmakers who may not know each other, let alone talk to one another. It’s…
Most comprehensive plans have a natural resources or environment chapter. Most of them say roughly the same things: protect prime farmland, preserve water quality, support conservation. But knowing what to protect is only half the job. The harder question — and the one most plans struggle with — is how. This July, we’re spending four…
