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The Wake Forest Board of Commissioners will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. in the Wake Forest Town Hall. The purpose of the hearing is to consider the adoption of the 5-year update to the 2004 Hazard Mitigation Plan, pursuant to state and federal law.
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Hazard Mitigation Plans form the foundation for a community's long-term strategy to reduce disaster losses and break the cycle of disaster damage, reconstruction, and repeated damage. The planning process is as important as the plan itself. It creates a framework for risk-based decision making to reduce damages to lives, property, and the economy from future disasters. Hazard mitigation is sustained action taken to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to people and their property from hazards.
The Hazard Mitigation Plan is a requirement in order to be eligible to receive federal and state disaster relief funds if and when Wake Forest experiences a declared natural disaster. The purpose of the plan is to develop hazard mitigation strategies and an implementation schedule for those strategies. The intent of the plan is to develop a more resilient community that will be more resistant to damage from natural hazards and that will be able to recover quicker from a disaster. Click here for an overview of the Hazard Mitigation Plan.
The 2009 Hazard Mitigation Plan Update consists of the following areas:
Staff Contact
Agnes Wanman, Planner
(919) 554-3911
awanman@wakeforestnc.gov