Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Americana
Part 5 of 5 in our August series on Public Safety and Hazard Mitigation in the Comprehensive Plan. Most communities have already mapped their risks. They know which roads flood first, which low-water crossings become impassable, which neighborhoods have limited ways in or out, and which public facilities lose power when the weather turns bad. […]
Part 4 of 5 in our August series on Public Safety and Hazard Mitigation in the Comprehensive Plan. Nearly every comprehensive plan acknowledges flood risk. Too seldom do our planning processes translate that acknowledgment into effective floodplain management. Every community has a relationship with water. Some are defined by a major river, a lake, a […]
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 […]
