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Welcome
The draft Kittitas County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan (HMP)
has been sent to the Washington Military Emergency
Management Division and FEMA for approval.
Kittitas County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan - Volume 1
9,526 KB
- Part 1 - The Planning Process
- Part 2 - Risk Assessment
- Part 3 - Mitigation Strategy
Kittitas County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan - Volume 2
14,192 KB
- Part 1 - Introduction
- Part 2 - Annexes for Municipalities
- Part 3 - Fire and Rescue District Annexes
- Part 4 - Utility District Annexes
- Part 5 - School District Annexes
Guiding Principle
Through partnerships, reduce the vulnerability to natural
hazards in order to protect the health, safety, welfare and
economy of the communities within Kittitas County.
Goals
- Protect life, property and the environment
- Continuously build and support local
capacity to enable the public to mitigate,
prepare for, respond to and recover from the
impact of hazards and disasters
- Establish a hazard and disaster resilient
economy
- Promote public awareness, engage public
participation and enhance partnerships through
education and outreach
- Encourage the development and implementation
of long-term, cost-effective mitigation projects
Objectives
- Reduce natural hazard-related risks and
vulnerability to populations, critical
facilities and infrastructure within the
planning area
- Minimize the impacts of natural hazards on
current and future land uses by encouraging use
of incentives for hazard mitigation (i.e. NFIP,
CRS)
- Prevent (or discourage) new development in
hazardous areas or ensure that if building
occurs in high-risk areas that it is done in
such a way as to minimize risk
- Integrate hazard mitigation policies into
land use plans within the planning area
- Update the plan annually to integrate local
hazard mitigation plans and the results of
disaster- and hazard-specific planning efforts
- Educate the public on the risk exposure to
natural hazards and ways to increase the
public's capability to prepare, respond, recover
and mitigate the impacts of these events
- Utilize the best available data, science and
technologies to improve understanding of the
location and potential impacts of natural
hazards, the vulnerability of building types,
and community development patterns and the
measures needed to protect life safety
- Retrofit, purchase, or relocate structures
in high hazard areas including those known to be
repetitively damaged
- Establish a partnership among all levels of
government and the business community to improve
and implement methods to protect property
- Encourage hazard mitigation measures that
result in the least adverse effect on the
natural environmental and that use natural
processes
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