2024 Tri-City Local Hazard Mitigation Plan

Help your community be hazard-ready!  Learn about hazard mitigation and plan update process.

The plan assesses natural hazards and analyzes the likely impacts each hazard poses to people and property in each city, and in the Tri-City area.  The plan establishes goals and prioritizes potential projects to reduce natural hazard risk.  These projects may be considered for future hazard mitigation grant funding, which is administered by Cal OES and FEMA, and awarded on a competitive basis.  Additionally, the LHMP enhances each cities’ floodplain management planning under FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program, Community Rating System.

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Tri-Cities Local Hazard Mitigation Plan - LHMP

2017 Newark/Union City Multi-Jurisdiction Hazard Mitigation Plan

• Volume 1 - Planning Area Wide Elements 
• Volume 2 - Planning Partner Annexes 

2023 Multi-jurisdictional Local Hazard Mitigation Plan

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) defines hazard mitigation as, “any sustained action taken to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to life and property from natural hazards.”  Another way to understand hazard mitigation is as the prevention component of the emergency management process.

• Preparedness activities are the emergency plans, training, drills, and exercises that individuals, communities and first responders participate in on almost a daily basis.These are things done to get ready for an emergency or disaster before it happens.
• Response is the short-term, emergency actions taken to address the immediate impacts of a hazard event or disaster.
• Recovery is the longer-term process of restoring the community back to normal or pre-disaster conditions.

• Mitigation, or prevention, activities are actions that will prevent or eliminate losses, even if an incident does occur. Mitigation can reduce or eliminate the need for an emergency response and greatly reduce the recovery period.

To address Hazard Mitigation in the Tri-Cities planning area, the City of Fremont is partnering with the Cities of Newark and Union City, the Alameda County Water District, and the Union Sanitary District to develop the Tri-Cities Multi-jurisdictional Local Hazard Mitigation Plan (LHMP) to reduce long-term risk and loss to people and property in the Tri-City area, and to bolster community resilience in the face of future natural disasters.   Additionally, communities with a FEMA-approved LHMP are eligible for FEMA pre- and post-disaster mitigation grant funding and for lower costs of flood insurance to residents through the National Flood Insurance Program’s (NFIP) Community Rating System (CRS).

The LHMP development process is as important as the plan itself.  It creates a framework for risk-based decision making to reduce damages to lives, property, and the economy from future disasters.

2023 LHMP Plan Development Process

The five participating jurisdictions kicked off their LHMP with meetings in late May 2023 and anticipate a Plan completion in Spring of 2024.  For more information on this project, upcoming meetings, and how you can get involved, go to Tri-City Multi-jurisdictional Local Hazard Mitigation Plan | MyFremont. The MyFremont website will maintain and update information throughout the project duration.

For more information contact the project management team lead for your community: Rich Martinez, City of Newark Emergency Services Coordinator: rich.martinez@newark.org