AllHazard Mitigation Planning

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All-Hazard Mitigation Planning

• Public Participation/Coordination

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Public participation

• Not just one way for everyone
• Each area unique

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Why do public participation?

• Required by law
• Gives public a voice
• Ensures greater ownership and support
• Ensures that key issues are identified
• Ensures chances for successful implementation

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Public participation

• Getting Started

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Step 1. Ask the public before starting a project

• Public helps shape county decision
• Serves to educate the citizens
• Makes public feel valued
• Opportunity to ask how they would like to
  participate

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Step 2. Assign responsibility for public
participation

• Staff
• Subcommittee
• Consultant

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Step 3. Hazard mitigation task force

• Recruit members
• Establish first meeting
• Assign responsibilities
• Set schedule
• Stay on task

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Step 4. Identify various interest groups and
organizations

• Business
• Religious
• Education
• Developers
• Governments
• Health Care
• Chamber of Commerce
• Citizens
• Volunteer Organizations

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Step 5. Develop public participation process

• Identify the public to be involved
• How the public and community organizations will
  be involved
• When the public and community organizations will
  be involved
• Identify various venues

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Types of public involvement techniques or venues

• Large scale public forums
• Public hearings
• Open houses
• Community meetings
• Neighborhood meetings
• Informal gatherings
• Surveys
• News articles
• Radio and TV spots
• Web page

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Seven keys for good public participation

• Personal invitation
• Tell them what you are planning to do
• Listen to their input
• Tell how input will be used
• Ask how they would like to Participate
• Value their participation
• Identify next steps

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Coordination is important

• Required by law
• Informs others and you
• Avoids duplication
• Promotes joint strategies
• Disasters are not confined to jurisdictional
  boundaries

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Who should be involved?

• Cities, counties and townships
• State agencies
• Federal agencies
• Non-profit organizations
• Business community
• Local government staff
• Other community organizations

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Developing effective coordination efforts

• Assign responsibility
• Contact person
• Notify neighbors
• Share plan drafts
• Stay the course
• Share adopted plan
• Integrate plan

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Careful county approach

• Notification to local and state governments
• Making meeting summaries available
• Sharing draft elements of the plan
• Concerted effort to involve state and federal
  agencies (state and federal technical advisors)
• Official response

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County/Township planning relationship

• Legal basis for planning Chapter 462
• Townships on equal footing with cities with one
  exception

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Exceptions

• No town shall enact or enforce official controls
  inconsistent with or less restrictive than the
  standards prescribed in the official controls
  adopted by the board.
• The county plan and official controls
  automatically apply to townships county
  regulations do not automatically apply to cities

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County/Township options

• Townships automatically covered by county
• May adopt county plan
• May prepare own plan
• Integration of options

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County/City relationship

• Cities not automatically covered by county plan
• Cities may adopt county plan as their own
• Cities may prepare their own plan

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Plan adoption

• County
• City
• Township