Wake County Hazard Mitigation Plan - January 2020

ANNEX B: CITY OF RALEIGH

Annex B

City of Raleigh

B.1 PLANNING PROCESS

The table below lists the HMPC members who represented the City of Raleigh. Table B.1 – HMPC Members

Agency

Representative

Position or Title

Emergency Management and Special Events Emergency Management and Special Events Engineering Services – Stormwater Management Office of Sustainability

Emergency Management Coordinator

Kelly Lindsey*

Whitney Schoenfeld

Special Events Planner

Stormwater Administrator

Ben Brown

Megan Anderson Nicole Goddard

Sustainability Manager Sustainability Analyst

Office of Sustainability

*Note: Vacated position midway through the planning process.

B.2 COMMUNITY PROFILE

Geography The City of Raleigh is located in central Wake County. A very small portion of the city extends west into Durham County, however all data presented here is representative of the entire city. The City is part of the Raleigh, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, which falls within the larger Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC Combined Statistical Area. Raleigh comprises a total land area of 142.9 square miles. According to data from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Wetlands Inventory, there are approximately 10,298 acres of wetlands in Raleigh. Figure B.1 shows a base map of major transportation routes in the City of Raleigh.

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