FLOOD06907

• County: Statewide
• Basin: Statewide
• Title: Release of Wisconsin Community Flood Mitigation Planning Guidebook
• Date: 11/28/1995
• Prepared For: State of Wisconsin
• Prepared By: Wisconson DNR
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Flood Mitigation/Flood Warning/Watershed Restoration

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Step Two
Identify Your Goals
and Objectives*

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What are goals and objectives?

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Collect ideas.

Identify goals and objectives,

of Rank the goals and objectives.
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In Step One you identified your community's
flooding problem. Now it's time to start
thinking about how to deal with it. Consider all
aspects of land use planning and development,
not just floodplain mitigation.

Developing a mitigation plan reduces flood
risks along with many other benefits. Undevel-
oped floodplain land provides natural resources
and functions of considerable economic, social,
and environmental value. Unfortunately, these
areas are often overlooked when deciding local
land use issues. The overview section in this
guidebook, "Developing your Plan," lists the

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Prepare your concept (draft) plan
Prepare your final

Where are we now?

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Step Six: Implement your plan
Step Seven: Monitor your plan

functions and values of floodplains as they
relate to accomplishing other landuse planning
goals in the community.

The planning process helps communities
identify goals and objectives they wish to
accomplish. This section shows you how to
organize your thoughts and ideas and how to get
people involved problem solving.

"What Are Our Goals
and Obiectives?"

Goals are general guidelines which explain
what you want to achieve in your community.
Based upon these goals. you develop the
specific objectives needed to reach them. Plans
and actions based on clear goals are more likely
to succeed at meeting the community's needs.
Goals may incJude, but are not limited to, the
following:

of Reduce flood damage

of Improve water quality

of Protect the public health, safety and
welfare

of Promote the community's long-tenn
economic prosperity

· Portions of this
section were
adapted from The
RiverwoTk Book
(1988), prepared by
the U.S. Depart.
ment of the Interior,
National Park
Service.

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