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• County: Statewide
• Basin: Statewide
• Title: Community Flood Mitigation Planning Guidebook State of Wisconsin
• Date: 10/28/1995
• Prepared For: Wisconsin
• Prepared By: Wisconson DNR
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Flood Mitigation/Flood Warning/Watershed Restoration

Step Five
Prepare Your Final Plan

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Previous sections of this guidebook have taken
you Ihrough the following processes:

,/ Identifying your flood problem;

,/ Setting goals and objectives;

,/ Collecting information, defining your
study area and conducting the analysis

,/ And, preparing a draft plan by identifying
alternatives.

Now its time to finalize your plan. Once you
have completed the above processes, it is time
to put all of these ideas together and develop
your final plan.

This represents the most critical stage of the
entire planning process. The political body
and the public eilher agree with your plan and
approve it or reject it. With this in mind, here
are a few suggestions to consider when finaliz-
ing your plan.

Identify your problems

Identify your goals and objectives

Collect Ihe information and conduct the analysis

Prepare your concept (draft) plan
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The final plan will encompass all of your
previous work in addition to outlining:

,/ The process used to develop goals and
objectives;

,/ How the plan will resolve identified
community issues;

,/ How it fits in with other community plans;

,/ The process used to select alternatives.

The final plan will help guide your decision
making process. The main difference between
the draft and final plan is that the final plan will
outline the pr~cess for selecting mitigation
alternatives for individual properties. It will also
be officially adopted by the governing body and
therefore become local policy.

Proiect Priorities

The final plan will assign priorities for targeting
properties for mitigation. You will probably
base your priorities on risk. For example,
structures in the floodway should have a higher
priority than those in the floodfringe. You may
also identify other factors from your plan.

Also, projects that complement other
community plans (e.g., park land acquisition)
may be given higher priority than those that do
nol. Priorities will also be based on available
funding and the stipulations attached to those
funding mechanisms.

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