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8/19/2002
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Board of Commissioners
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(b) Cabarrus County has included several additional goals for hazard mitigation: <br /> <br />- Reduce hazard risks to citizens' lives and property. <br />- Restore and protect the natural capacity of the local environment to prevent future disasters, <br />improve public health, restore degraded ecosystems, and make communities more livable. <br /> <br /> (c) Mitigation goals can only be accomplished within the planning context of <br />providing a sustainable environment that meets the needs of the current population of the county <br />,while protecting the needs of furore generations. Sustainable development and smart growth <br />principles of land stewardship, protection of the natural environment, and preservation of natural <br />resources have all been considered during the development of mitigation activities. The real <br />challenge, however, has not and will not be the development of mitigation activities, but will <br />come in the months and years ahead as the people and leaders of Cabarrus County convert the <br />Hazard Mitigation Plan into action. <br /> <br /> (d) Current county ordinances do not hinder hazard mitigation efforts. Cabarrus <br />County Government has been active in floodplain management within the county. The county <br />has developed a greenway program to encourage recreational development in possible flood <br />hazard areas in place of residential or commercial use of those areas.' The county river/stream <br />overlay district requires a minimum fifty-foot buffer area to be placed along both sides of" <br />blue-line" streams. The county enforces watershed protection areas which prohibits <br />development on parcels less than two acres. The County applies strict standards on the type of <br />development that may occur within watershed protection areas. <br /> <br />3. Hazard Mitigation Activities <br /> <br />(a) Hazard mitigation includes three types of activities: <br /> <br /> (1) Structural mitigation - constructing dam and levee projects to protect against <br />flooding, constructing disaster-resistant structures, and retrofitting existing structures to <br />withstand future hazardous events. <br /> <br /> (2) Non-structural mitigation - development of land Use plans, zOning ordinances, <br />subdivision regulations, and tax incentives and disincentives to discourage development in high- <br />hazard risk areas. <br /> <br /> (3) Educational programs - educating the public about potential natural hazards, <br />the importance of mitigation, and how to prepare for emergency situations. <br /> <br />4. Plan Obi ectives. <br /> <br /> (a) The mitigation objectives described in the text below and the mitigation activities <br />outlined in Table 1 cover aspects of all three types of mitigation activities. These objectives and <br />activities have been developed as specific ways in which to reach the plan's stated goals. <br /> <br />Draft Basic Plan v.3.1 I~, ~ 5 1 July 2002 <br /> <br /> <br />
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