City of Irvine
2020 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan
These goals reflect a change in the community’s priorities given the amount of development that has occurred in the past 20 years and anticipated new development in areas of the City experiencing growth and change.
P LANNING P ROCESS
State and federal guidance for LHMPs do not require that jurisdictions follow a standardized planning process. FEMA encourages communities to create their own planning process that reflects local values, goals, and characteristics. FEMA does suggest a general planning process the follows these general milestones:
Identify the planning and the resources it contains
Build the planning team
Create an outreach team
Identify the risks and threats to the community
Review the community's capabilities
Develop a hazard mitigation strategy
Implement the plan to create a safe and resilient community
Review and adopt the plan
Keep the plan current
For the City of Irvine, the planning process used to create this plan is described below:
Hazard Mitigation Planning Committee
The City established a Hazard Mitigation Planning Committee (hereafter referred to as the Committee). The Committee is made up of representatives from key City departments as well as stakeholder members that include representatives from local and regional agencies, and companies that are key to hazard mitigation activities. Table 1-1 identifies the members that were invited and/or attended Committee meetings. Key stakeholders that attended these meetings included, Irvine Ranch Water District, Irvine Unified School District, and Orange County Fire Authority. Emergency managers from surrounding cities were also invited but did not attend these meetings.
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