Advancing Bay Area Resilience: An Integrated Approach
Natural Hazards Mitigation Association WorkshopBroomfield, COJuly 23, 2015
Arrietta Chakos, ABAG Policy Advisor
Slides prepared by ABAG’s Resilience Team: Danielle Mieler, Michael Germeraad & Dana Brechwald
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What is Community Resilience?
Ability to live better today and recovery more quickly from
tough times
Credit: City Resilience Framework, Rockefeller Foundation & ARUP
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ABAG Resilience Program
Research, planning, and action for a resilient Bay Area
• Long-term stressors and immediate shocks• Livability and quality of life• Integrated with comprehensive regional and
local planning• Practical implementation assistance• Building partnerships
ABAG’s Regional Role
• Cultivate a resilience community of practice• Analyze and research risk and resilience conditions• Engage decision makers• Provide data and guidance for local government
decision making• Recommend policy actions• Communicate actionable science information• Technical assistance that supports local resilience
implementation
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Resilience Focus Areas
Research
Stronger Housing, Safer Communities
Infrastructure resilience
Plan
Local resilience plans
ART Oakland/Alameda
resilience study
Plan Bay Area
Act
Mitigation and recovery
guidebook
East Bay Corridors
Oakland soft-story
Oakland recovery framework
Policy
LP25 policies
100RC
Regional Resilience Planning
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Regional Resilience Planning
Plan Bay Area 2017
Regional Resilience Initiative
100RC Regional Coordination
Infrastructure, Housing and
Community Risk
Loma Prieta 25th Anniversary Symposium
Local Government Resilience Toolkit
Oakland Soft-Story Mitigation Program
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Stronger Housing, Safer
Communities
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High Level Exploration of Systems
Local resilience plans
Plan Bay Area polices focused along SF East Bay Corridor
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LP25 Policy Objectives
• Ensure building codes meet community performance expectations via improved construction & retrofit standards
• Support guidelines to identify, evaluate and update soft-story apartment and condo buildings
• Establish regional financial incentives to improve seismic safety of multi-unit buildings
• Convene pilot Lifelines Council in the Bay Area
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100RC Regional Coordination
• Partnering with San Francisco, Berkeley & Oakland through the Rockefeller Foundation initiative
• Leveraging the 100RC initiatives with Bay Area cities for comprehensive planning & action
• Complements FEMA partnership for regional resilience planning
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100RC Coordination: Initial Steps
• Analysis of 100RC regional investment • Comprehensive and dynamic map of regional
resilience planning and application• Development of case studies to demonstrate
successful Bay Area resilience practice• Integration of resilience policies into local
planning, including Plan Bay Area policy and practice with potential financial resources
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