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2025 Hazard Mitigation Plan <br />Kittitas County, Washington <br /> <br /> <br />Chapter 5: Mitigation Strategy 218 <br />Goal 3 <br />Establish a hazard and disaster resilient economy. <br />Objectives <br />3.A Update the Plan annually to integrate local hazard mitigation and the results of disaster and hazard <br />specific planning efforts. <br />3.B <br />Use the best available data, science, and technologies to improve understanding of the location and <br />potential impacts of natural hazards, the vulnerability of building types, and community development <br />patterns and the measures needed to protect life safety . <br />3.C Review new and existing policies to determine where climate change resiliency strategies can be <br />included. <br />Goal 4 <br />Promote public awareness, engage public participation, and enhance partnerships through education and <br />outreach. <br />Objectives <br />4.A Educate the public on the risk exposure to natural hazards and ways to increase the public’s capability <br />to prepare, respond, recover, and mitigate the impacts of these events. <br />4.B Encourage home and business owners to obtain and maintain flood insurance through the NFIP or <br />other insurance providers. <br />Goal 5 <br />Encourage the development and implementation of long-term, cost-effective mitigation projects. <br />Objectives <br />5.A Integrate hazard mitigation policies into land use plans within the planning area. <br />5.B Retrofit, purchase, or relocate structures in high hazard areas including those known to be repetitively <br />damaged. <br />5.2. REVIEW OF POSSIBLE MITIGATION ACTIVITIES <br />Plan participants assessed a range of potential mitigation activities identified in the 2017 Community CRS <br />Coordinator’s Manual for floodplain management planning – prevention, property protection, natural <br />resource protection, emergency services, structural projects, and public information. This CRS planning <br />step is intended to provide a systematic review of planning activities to “ensure that all possible measures <br />are explored, not just the traditional approaches of flood control, acquisition, and regulation of land use” <br />are considered. While the CRS Coordinator’s Manual is specific to flood hazard planning, the mitigation <br />activities it identifies have a broader potential application in the mitigation actions outlined in this Plan. <br />The review of possible mitigation activities was informed by other FEMA guidance documents, the 2019 <br />Kittitas County Hazard Mitigation Plan, and suggestions from participating communities and their <br />respective stakeholders during a series of workshops and public meetings held throughout the County in <br />February 2024. <br />5.2.1. Prevention <br />Preventive measures help mitigate natural hazard related risks and prevent existing vulnerabilities from <br />escalating. Risk associated with the use and development of high hazard areas can be addressed <br />through planning, land acquisition, or regulation. These are usually administered by building, zoning, <br />planning, and/or code enforcement offices. Examples include: <br />