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FEMA Approved LMS Plan - Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council

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Objective 2.3<br />

EVALUATION<br />

Policy 2.3.1<br />

EVALUATION<br />

Policy 2.3.2<br />

EVALUATION<br />

Policy 2.3.3<br />

EVALUATION<br />

Policy 2.2.2<br />

EVALUATION<br />

Policy 2.2.3<br />

EVALUATION<br />

Objective 2.4<br />

EVALUATION<br />

Policy 2.4.1<br />

EVALUATION<br />

Policy 2.4.2<br />

The City shall maintain or reduce hurricane evacuation times.<br />

Ensures an on-going program to reduce storm vulnerability.<br />

The City shall coordinate with state, regional and county agencies to<br />

ensure that major evacuation routes are adequately maintained and,<br />

when necessary, improved to facilitate an efficient and safe<br />

evacuation.<br />

Ensures intergovernmental cooperation in hazard mitigation planning.<br />

The City, in cooperation with the Pinellas County Department of Civil<br />

Emergency Services and the South Pinellas County Chapter of the<br />

American Red Cross shall sponsor annual hurricane preparedness<br />

seminars to increase hurricane awareness.<br />

Ensures that the City will provide annual programs to provide public<br />

awareness of the coastal hazard.<br />

City emergency response personnel and volunteers shall coordinate<br />

with county and state emergency response agencies in emergency<br />

planning, including communications, traffic control and warning<br />

operations, to effect a safe and efficient evacuation of the City<br />

Ensures inter-agency cooperation and coordination of emergency<br />

response activities relating to hurricane evacuations.<br />

The City shall maintain allowable densities in the Hurricane<br />

Vulnerability Zone (the entire island community) consistent with the<br />

Future Land Use Map of this Comprehensive <strong>Plan</strong>.<br />

Ensures that the City will not increase development densities beyond<br />

those called for by the Comprehensive <strong>Plan</strong>.<br />

The City shall require a coastal hazard disclosure statement on all<br />

real estate transfers or leases.<br />

Ensures that new residents will be made aware of the coastal hazard<br />

areas.<br />

The City shall continue to try to reduce the risk of exposure of human<br />

life and public and private property to natural disasters through<br />

preparedness planning and implementation of hazard mitigation<br />

measures.<br />

Ensures an on-going effort by the City to reduce hazard vulnerability.<br />

The City, in coordination with other agencies, shall continue to<br />

maintain and update its local Hurricane <strong>Plan</strong>.<br />

Ensures annual updates to hazard mitigation measures.<br />

The emergency management coordinator, as designated by the City,<br />

shall oversee the maintenance and ongoing updates of the hurricane<br />

plan; act as a liaison between state, regional, county and city<br />

emergency response and planning agencies; and ensure coordination<br />

between emergency management and development activities in the<br />

City.<br />

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