These planning activities will be utilized to assist communities in seeking mitigation assistance, complying with federal, state and local regulations, managing future land utilization, and coordinating public investments for disaster preparedness, mitigation, and response.
The project will also include educational and technical assistance components to assist local communities in the decision making process to prevent future development in high hazard areas, mitigate existing development in hazard areas, and to implement identified mitigation strategies. Mitigation strategies have been identified through all hazard mitigation plans that have been developed at the county-wide level.
Ideally, this project will alleviate future losses through public education, local elected official training, coordinated mitigation activities, and implementation of local development practices that help protect lives and property for the residents of these communities.