City of Irvine
2020 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan
of natural gas infrastructure and services in Irvine will be implemented through coordination with SoCalGas.
HAZARD MITIGATION STRATEGIES AND ACTIONS Hazard Mitigation Goals
The goals identified in Chapter 1 help develop policies to protect community members, ecosystems, and other important assets from hazard events. These goals were developed to ensure consistency with the City’s General Plan Safety Element, which plays an important role in risk reduction within Irvine. These goals informed the development of mitigation actions and act as checkpoints to help City staff determine implementation progress. Evaluation of Potential Hazard Mitigation Actions Based on the hazard profiles, threat assessment, and capabilities assessment; the results of the community survey; discussions among Committee members; and existing best practices, the Committee prepared a set of potential mitigation actions. Next, the Committee evaluated these potential actions using the following criteria: FEMA requires local governments to evaluate the monetary and non-monetary costs and benefits of potential mitigation actions. Although local governments are not required to assign specific dollar values to each action, they should identify the general size of costs and benefits. The Committee may elect to include measures that have a high cost or low benefits, but such measures should be clearly beneficial to the community and an appropriate use of local resources. In addition, FEMA directs local governments to consider the following questions as part of the financial analysis: • What is the frequency and severity of the hazard type to be addressed by the action, and how vulnerable is the community to this hazard?
• What impacts of the hazard will the action reduce or avoid? • What benefits will the action provide to the community?
The Committee also chose to review and revise the potential hazard mitigation actions using a third set of criteria ( Table 5-2 ), known as STAPLE/E (Social, Technical, Administrative, Political, Legal, Economic, and Environmental). The Committee did not formally assess every
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