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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