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The City of Redmond is pleased to announce that our Hazard Mitigation
Plan has received pre-adoption approval from the Department of Homeland
Security, FEMA.
The Hazard Mitigation Plan must now be adopted by the Redmond City
Council to receive final approval from FEMA.
The Council's adoption and final FEMA approval of Redmond's Hazard
Mitigation Plan will wrap up three years of work on this project. The
mitigation planning process involved the University of Washington’s Institute for Hazards
Mitigation Planning and Research, a part of the College of Architecture
and Urban Planning, plus input from local business owners, City
residents, City staff and comments from the Washington State Emergency
Management Division. The need to develop a local Hazard Mitigation Plan was
driven by changes to Federal Law and FEMA regulations.
This project began when the City of Redmond entered into a scope of work
with the UW’s Institute for Hazards Mitigation
Planning and Research to conduct a Hazard Inventory Vulnerability
Analysis (HIVA) in the spring of 2001. The project continued in early 2002
with the development of the Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan Proposal (March
2002) which was prepared by graduate students in the Winter quarter.
This was followed in the Spring quarter with the identification and development of a scenario based
Hazard Mitigation Strategies Plan. These efforts have continued the
tradition of Redmond’s cooperative efforts with the University of
Washington.
This Hazard Mitigation Strategies Plan represents the third stage in the
hazard mitigation planning process. This plan was based on information
contained in the Hazard Inventory Vulnerability Analysis (HIVA) (June
2001) and the Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan Proposal
(March 2002), along with additional research and feedback
from local business owners, residents and City staff. The plan
identifies five mitigation strategies along with ten recommendations for
implementing those strategies. These recommendations are consistent
with the goals and visions found in the City’s Comprehensive Plan and
can be used in future planning efforts.
The final step in the completion of Redmond's Hazard Mitigation Plan was
to develop a Community Process document that addressed the development,
implementation, adoption and maintenance of the plan. Additionally, all
of the knowledge gained from the HIVA, the Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan
Proposal and the Hazard Mitigation Strategies Plan had to be gathered
together and complied into the final document. This part of the process
was conducted by a doctoral candidate from the University of Washington.
Redmond's Hazard Mitigation Plan will comply with the new FEMA regulations
addressing Hazard Mitigation Grant
Program (HMGP) funding. This plan will also
be used as the basis to apply for HMGP funding for retrofitting older structures. Many of the mitigation strategies can, in addition, be used to provide
helpful information to local residents and businesses on how to reduce
their potential hazard risks.
The final adopted local Hazard Mitigation Plan will complement the
City’s Comprehensive Plan and become an Annex of the All-Hazards
Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan.
If you wish to comment on Redmond's Hazard Mitigation Plan please use
the web based form below or you can provide written comments to Robert Schneider with the City's Office of Emergency Management.
Comments may be emailed to:
Robert Schneider at
rschneider@redmond.gov Redmond Fire Department
Written comments may be mailed to:
Comments on the
Redmond's Hazard Mitigation Plan
Office of Emergency Management
8450 - 161st Avenue NE
Redmond, WA 98052-3848
Please use this web based form to provide us with your feedback and comments:
Comments on
Redmond's Hazard Mitigation Plan
Redmond's Hazard Mitigation Plan is divided into three parts:
- Community Process
Development, Implementation, Adoption and Maintenance
- Hazard Inventory Vulnerability Analysis
(HIVA)
- Hazard Mitigation Plan
The Hazard Mitigation Plan is available as a complete document or it
may be downloaded in separate sections. Here are the links to access all of the documents
in Adobe (pdf) format:
Community Process (Document 1) Attachments
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