I-10: Resilient Community Connections – Above Green

The Community must incorporate design features, strategies and community-based programs to ensure resilience through infrastructure, community resources and social interactions in order to weather disruptions or disasters of any type. The Community must:

For Transects 5 & 6 (using the floodplain exception):

Provide a place or places to allow 100% of residents to marshal and congregate in a dry, covered, and secure location that is out of the flood plain.
Require that all facilities (except single-family residences) have a working back-up generator or battery back-up for emergency power needs that is located above the flood plain.

All Transects:

Create, actively maintain on a yearly basis, and disseminate to all residents and tenants a disaster response plan that identifies emergency contacts and shelter locations and provides specific guidance for various types of disruption.
Assign, train and keep current two “block captains” or building captains for every 500 residents. Captains should be highly versed in disaster response, first aid and general safety procedures. The positions may be voluntary.
Maintain an emergency contact program tailored to the Community’s scale, such as a roster for all residents in both hard-copy and electronic forms for smaller communities.
Have an active neighborhood watch and community program that has a mandate to look out for resident well-being and safety.
Ensure that all sensitive infrastructures, such as lift stations, sub-stations, sewage treatment, community centers, schools and the like, are out of the flood plain.