Reducing Hazard Impacts through Plan Alignment

Overview

Local planning documents, such as comprehensive and hazard mitigation plans, can be developed together to reduce coastal hazard impacts. This process is called plan alignment or plan integration. When communities integrate their local plans, they encourage collaborative planning and implementation across agencies. Explore the following resources from our partners to learn more about plan alignment.

This collection features the following resources:

• Plan Alignment Toolkit
• Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard
• Linking Local Planning Efforts
• Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy and Hazard Mitigation Plan Alignment Guide

• Plan Alignment Toolkit

  

  New to plan alignment? Start here. Use the toolkit to learn overarching principles of plan alignment, best practices, and troubleshooting tips. Learn about aligning plans for several hazards—wildfires, coastal hazards, and flooding after fire. While designed for California, the concepts are applicable to communities in other states.

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• Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard

  

  Use the scorecard to evaluate community plans to identify what actions and plans are conflicting with each other and potentially causing increases in hazard impacts. This resource also includes case studies. For additional guidance on the scorecard approach, refer to the American Planning Association PAS Memo: Building Resilience through Plan Integration or watch these videos for a quick overview.

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• Linking Local Planning Efforts

  

  Follow the steps within this guide to analyze local plans and identify opportunities for integration of hazard mitigation goals and actions into other local plans.

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• Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy and Hazard Mitigation Plan Alignment Guide

  

  Use this guide to identify how to align the comprehensive economic development strategy and hazard mitigation plan. Includes case studies that show how states, regions, and local jurisdictions have aligned their plans.

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