The document outlines the efforts by the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) to enhance community resilience against natural hazards through research, planning, and partnerships. Key focuses include improving housing safety, creating local resilience plans, and sharing data to support local governments. The initiative also integrates comprehensive regional planning while coordinating with cities like San Francisco, Berkeley, and Oakland to leverage opportunities for resilience improvements.

1. Advancing Bay Area Resilience:
An Integrated Approach
Natural Hazards Mitigation Association Workshop
Broomfield, CO
July 23, 2015
Arrietta Chakos, ABAG Policy Advisor
Slides prepared by ABAG’s Resilience Team: Danielle Mieler, Michael Germeraad &
Dana Brechwald

2. What is Community Resilience?
Ability to live better
today and recovery
more quickly from
tough times
4/8/2016
Credit: City Resilience Framework,
Rockefeller Foundation & ARUP

3. ABAG Resilience Program
Research, planning, and action for a resilient
Bay Area
4/8/2016
• Long-term stressors and immediate shocks
• Livability and quality of life
• Integrated with comprehensive regional and
local planning
• Practical implementation assistance
• Building partnerships

4. 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

5. Resilience Focus Areas
4/8/2016
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

6. 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
4/8/2016

8. 4/8/2016
Stronger Housing,
Safer
Communities

9. High Level Exploration of Systems
4/8/2016

10. Local resilience
plans

12. Plan Bay Area polices focused along SF East Bay Corridor

14. 4/8/2016

15. 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
4/8/2016

16. 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
4/8/2016

17. 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
4/8/2016

18. resilience.abag.ca.gov

19. Stay informed
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