The Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) recently released the "Status Report - Long-Term Disaster Recovery Planning by Local Governments in the San Francisco Bay Area."
Long-term recovery refers to the repair and rebuilding process that
government departments, such as planning, finance, housing, public
works/building, redevelopment, and emergency management, will need to
carry out to start restoring their community after an earthquake or
other catastrophic disaster. In advance before any disaster,
jurisdictions need to be prepared to finance recovery, expedite
long-term housing recovery, support recovery of downtown businesses and
the local economy, and ensure that their own facilities and services
recover smoothly.
The Survey's summary report documents the areas of recovery planning in which local governments are making significant progress, have mixed levels of progress, and where they need to make improvements. The report examines the collective sum of information and analyzes the status of recovery efforts throughout the Bay Area as a whole, rather than focusing exclusively on what individual jurisdictions have done. The reasoning is that a catastrophic disaster is not localized, but affects the whole region.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
REPORT
The Survey's summary report documents the areas of recovery planning in which local governments are making significant progress, have mixed levels of progress, and where they need to make improvements. The report examines the collective sum of information and analyzes the status of recovery efforts throughout the Bay Area as a whole, rather than focusing exclusively on what individual jurisdictions have done. The reasoning is that a catastrophic disaster is not localized, but affects the whole region.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
REPORT
