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Planning for Hazards: Land Use Solutions

Planning for Hazards: Land Use Solutions for Colorado enables counties and municipalities to prepare for and mitigate multiple hazards by integrating resilience and hazard mitigation principles into plans, codes, and standards related to land use and the built environment. This website provides detailed, Colorado-specific information about how to assess a community’s risk level to hazards and how to implement numerous land use planning tools and strategies for reducing a community’s risk.

How to Use this Website

How Planning for Hazards Can Help Your Community

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Planning Framework

Get general approaches for mitigating hazards through land use planning and the general legal and regulatory framework for planning for hazards in Colorado.

Review the Framework

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Colorado, and City of Colorado Springs Local Hazard
Mitigation Plans.

Identification and Assessment

Developing strategies and implementation tools for mitigating hazards first requires an evaluation of a community’s risk and vulnerability to particular hazards.

Start the Assessment

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Planning Tools

There are numerous opportunities to effectively integrate and address the mitigation of identified and potential hazards within local plans, policies, and initiatives.

Plans, Policies, Programs

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Model Codes

Learning from communities that have tested specific tools is key to success, with model policies and regulations provided for various planning tools.

Model Codes

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Moving Forward

Find guidance to help communities assess risks, choose effective tools and strategies, and advocate for adoption, along with a summary of technical and financial resources to support these efforts.

Identify Next Steps