Council authorizes submission of draft Hazard Mitigation Plan to Whatcom County
City Planner Carson Cortez was authorized to submit Sumas’s draft Hazard Mitigation Plan to Whatcom County; the plan updates hazards, methodology, population and critical facilities sections and is on a five-year cycle.
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Carson Cortez, the City Planner, told the council that Whatcom County and the small cities have updated the Hazard Mitigation Plan, which is reviewed on a five-year cycle and includes a jurisdictional profile for each city. As Cortez put it, "The plan is updated on a five-year cycle, and each city has a jurisdictional profile." The council heard that the primary changes are to the list of hazards and the method used to determine each hazard, plus edits to planning, population, and critical facilities sections.
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