Symposium on Integrating Hazard Mitigation into Local Planning

On November 1-2, 2007, APA hosted a scoping symposium to explore a number of essential issues in guiding the Integrating Hazard Mitigation into Local Planning project as it moves forward. Invited participants focused on helping APA in:

1. defining the appropriate audiences and scales of activity for the resulting PAS Report;
2. delineating the guiding principles concerning the integration of hazard mitigation into local planning;
3. refining the outline for the PAS Report;
4. identifying gaps in our search of the literature to date;
5. identifying criteria for best practices and actual examples that ought to be studied.

Click here for the outline of the symposium discussion.

Symposium Participants

Chad Berginnis
Chief, Ohio Emergency Management Agency, Mitigation Branch

Jeff Bielling 
Alachua County (Florida) Fire Rescue
Wildfire Mitigation Officer

Peter L. Fogg
Senior Planner, Current and Long Range Planning, Boulder County Land Use Department, Boulder, Colorado

David Godschalk Professor Emeritus, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Tina Sanchez
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Gulf Coast Services Center

Gavin Smith
Principal, PBS&J
Adjunct Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Deepa Srinivasan, AICP
President, Vision Planning and Consulting, LLC

Mark Stewart State Hazard Mitigation Programs Manager Washington Military Department, Emergency Management Division

Kenneth C. Topping, FAICP Principal, Topping Associates International, Cambria, California Lecturer, City and Regional Planning Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

FEMA Project Staff

Terry Baker, Senior Mitigation Planner, Mitigation Directorate (retired)
Karen Helbrecht, Mitigation Planner, Mitigation Directorate
Jonathan P. Marsch, FEMA Region 5
Kathleen Wissmann, AICP, Program Planner, Mitigation Directorate

APA Project Staff

James C. Schwab, AICP, Project Manager and Principal Investigator
William R. Klein, AICP, Project Supervisor
Joseph MacDonald, AICP, Senior Program Development Associate
Lynn Ross, AICP, PAS Manager, Research Associate
Ann Dillemuth, Research Associate
James A. Hecimovich, PAS Reports Editor
Rebecca Little, Project Intern