Inventory your community’s existing plans.
Disaster recovery does not take place in a vacuum; your pre-disaster recovery plan should be informed by the “everyday” plans that guide your community’s growth and development. In this step, you will create an easy-to-access list of your community’s local plans and do some basic summary and analysis.
Create a list of the applicable plans or strategies in your community that will be important in disaster recovery (i.e., Comprehensive Plan, Local Hazard Mitigation Plan, Emergency Operations Plan, Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP), Continuity of Government Plan (COG), Economic Development Plan or Strategy, Housing Study, Climate Change Resilience Plan, among others). Be sure to briefly describe the recovery areas that are covered by each plan. For example, an affordable housing strategy includes information about the local housing market that might be important for housing recovery decision-making.
For more information, see Step 1 Activity 1 of the Community Readiness and Resilience Toolkit. In addition, use the community plan tab in the Pre-disaster Planning Workbook to support you in your inventory.