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Tri-Valley Local Hazard Mitigation Plan; Volume 1—Planning-Area-Wide Elements xxii 9. Prioritize and direct resources to increase disaster resiliency among historically underserved populations, individuals with access and functional needs, and in communities disproportionately impacted by disasters. Each selected objective meets multiple goals, serving as a stand-alone measurement of the effectiveness of a mitigation action, rather than as a subset of a goal. The objectives also are used to help establish priorities. The objectives are as follows: 1. Develop and provide updated information to improve the understanding of the locations, potential impacts, and linkages among threats, hazards, vulnerability, and measures needed to protect life safety health, property and the environment. 2. Use local general plan, zoning, and subdivision requirements to help establish resilient and sustainable communities. 3. Increase public participation in systems that provide warning and emergency communications. 4. Encourage the retrofit of vulnerable structures in the planning area. 5. Consider programs that incentivize risk reduction. 6. Reduce repetitive property losses due to hazards by updating land use, design, and construction policies. 7. Continually build linkages and promote dialog about emergency management within the public and private sectors. 8. Incorporate risk reduction considerations in new and updated infrastructure and development plans to reduce the impacts of hazards. 9. Inform the public, including underrepresented and marginalized community groups, on the risk of exposure to hazards and ways to increase the public’s capability to prepare for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the impacts of these events. 10. Identify projects that simultaneously reduce risk while increasing planning area resilience and sustainability. 11. Where feasible and cost-effective, research, develop, and promote adoption of building and development laws, regulations, and ordinances exceeding the minimum levels needed for life safety. 12. Encourage hazard mitigation measures that promote and enhance natural processes, minimize adverse impacts on the ecosystem, and promote social equity. MITIGATION ACTION PLAN The planning partnership selected a range of mitigation actions to work toward achieving the goals set forth in this plan update. The recommended mitigation actions are activities designed to reduce or eliminate losses resulting from natural hazards. The update process resulted in the identification of 60 mitigation actions for implementation by individual planning partners, as presented in Volume 2 of the hazard mitigation plan. IMPLEMENTATION The Steering Committee developed a plan implementation and maintenance strategy that includes mid-term progress reporting, a strategy for continued public involvement, a commitment to plan integration with other relevant plans and programs, and a recommitment from the planning partners to actively maintain the plan over the five-year performance period. Full implementation of the recommendations of this plan will require time and resources. The measure of the plan’s success will be its ability to adapt to changing conditions. The Tri-Valley Planning Partnership will assume Page 87 of 228