Why participate in a Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Planning Process?
  • Can save money by providing a forum for engaging in partnerships that could provide technical, financial, and/or staff resources in your effort to reduce the effects, and hence the costs, of hazards
  • Small jurisdictions can benefit from the additional resources and expertise that collaboration can bring
  • Multi-jurisdictional hazard mitigation plans are practical for addressing issues best dealt with on a larger scale, which do not recognize political boundaries
  • Takes advantage of existing planning mechanisms, such as regional  planning organizations
  • Creates economies of scale and enables pooling of limited resources

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1. What is hazard mitigation?
2. What is a hazard mitigation plan?
3. Why prepare a Hazard Mitigation Plan?
4. Why participate in a Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Planning Process?