Health Newsletters: City of Baltimore All Natural Hazards Update: DP3 Strategies and Actions

Baltimore is highly vulnerable to many natural hazards, ranging from coastal storms and flooding to extreme heat and high winds. There is strong consensus that these types of extreme events will increase, both in frequency and intensity, over the coming years. Recognizing the City’s current vulnerability to the impacts of hazard events, Baltimore has undertaken a thorough, proactive approach to the hazard mitigation planning process.

Baltimore’s Disaster Preparedness and Planning Project (DP3) was created by the Department of Planning as an effort to address existing hazards while simultaneously preparing for predicted hazards due to climate change. This project develops a plan and implementation guidelines that integrate hazards mitigation planning, floodplain mapping, and climate adaptation planning.

An Advisory Committee consisting of representatives from environmental, non-profit, labor, business, community, and developer groups as well as local, state and federal government was developed to advise and provide expertise throughout the process. The charge to the committee was to develop recommendations on a set of goals, strategies and actions the City of Baltimore should implement to reduce risk and increase resiliency.

WE WANT YOUR COMMENTS AND INPUT

The City launched its natural hazard website in May, 2013 in an effort to engage the public on this very important topic and to gather feedback about the proposed Plan. The DRAFT list of goals, strategies and actions drafted by the Advisory Committee of experts and advisors can be found at the weblink below:

http://baltimorehazards.wordpress.com/disaster-preparedness/goals-strategies-and-actions/full-list-of-goals-strategies-and-actions/

The list of goals, strategies and actions acts as a framework document that will be used to draft the content for our entire plan. Keep in mind, while looking at the goals, strategies and actions, there will be additional content added which will further explain the purpose of the recommendation.

Comments can be provided directly in the comment box on the bottom of the page or sent to Kristin.Baja@baltimorecity.gov. We request that all feedback be provided by August 9^th, 2013.

TOWN HALL EVENT

The City is also hosting a second town hall event at the War Memorial Building (101 N Gay Street) on Tuesday, July 30^th from 6:00pm-8:00pm in the lower level meeting space. Representatives from FEMA, the State Department of Natural Resources, the Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management and the Baltimore City Health Department will be present to answer questions and provide more information.

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