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2025 Hazard Mitigation Plan <br />Kittitas County, Washington <br />o <br />a <br />a <br />a <br />a <br />Floodplain Mapping and Data <br />Wildfire Severity Mapping and Data <br />Wildland Urban lnterface Code <br />Open Space Preservation <br />Floodplain Regulations <br />Critical Area Regulations <br />o Relocation <br />. Acquisition <br />o Building Elevation <br />. Retrofitting (e.9., flood, earthquakes, <br />wildfire) <br />. Erosion Setbacks <br />e Planning and Zoning <br />. StormwaterManagement <br />. Drainage System Maintenance <br />o Building Code <br />o Shaded Firebreaks <br />. Property Management <br />r Firewise Landscaping <br />. Sewer Backup Protection <br />. lnsurance <br />Steering Committee Discussion: Prevention is a mitigation strategy incorporated in this planning <br />document and considered for specific mitigation measures, as applicable. This Hazard Mitigation Plan <br />identifies several regulations that address development risk in high hazard areas. <br />. Section 3.9.1 of this Plan identifies pertinent planning and regulatory mechanisms, and Table 3- <br />18 identifies legal and regulatory capabilities at the local level. <br />. Section 3.11 of this Plan identifies that allfive (5) incorporated municipalities and Unincorporated <br />Kittitas County participate in the NFIP and outlines details about NFIP participation activities. The <br />NFIP, along with Critical Area Regulations provide the regulatory context for flood risk to be <br />considered during land use decisions and set heightened building standards for areas identified <br />as SFHA. <br />These regulatory tools are most effective when flood risk is well documented in the FIRMs and flood risk <br />throughout Unincorporated Kittitas County is often not well documented in FlRMs. ln many areas, flood <br />risk was identified decades ago, utilizing approximate methods. Additionally, these flood risk maps do <br />not effectively represent changes in risk over time (e.9., either channel migration, alluvial fan migration). <br />Furthermore, the Flood Control Zone District has conducted and utilized reach scale river flood <br />assessments to inform acquisition priorities given channel migration and flood risk. Current land use <br />planning efforts are examining critical areas and SFHA information to inform buildable land inventories. <br />Among the six (6) highest ranking hazards, the Steering Committee identified prevention activities, as <br />appropriate, for the following hazards - wildfire, earthquake, and flood (Table 5-2). <br />5.2.2. Property Protection <br />Property protection activities are usually undertaken by property owners on a building by building or <br />parcel basis. Examples include: <br />Steering Committee Discussion: Relocation and retrofit of at-risk public infrastructure, strategic land <br />acquisitions, the development of repetitive flood loss area plans, and education to inform landowners <br />about retrofit and insurance options are actions plan participants can take. As described in Section 3.11 <br />Chapter 5: Mitigation Strategy 219