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13 <br /> GOALS AND OBJECTIVES it <br /> Goal 1: Change, enhance, or adopt plans, ordinances, policies, regulations, and other local tools <br /> and mechanisms to better facilitate risk reduction activities and improve overall resiliency. <br /> Objective 1-1: Strive to ensure that development occurs in such a way as to protect wetlands, floodplains, <br /> erosion control measures, and other natural features that serve to reduce hazard risk. <br /> Objective 1-2: Pursue policies that incorporate hazard mitigation into new development <br /> and post-disaster redevelopment. <br /> Goal 2: Protect the public health, safety and welfare by increasing training, education, and <br /> public awareness of hazards and by encouraging collective and individual responsibility for <br /> mitigating hazard risks. <br /> Objective 2-1: Implement a public awareness campaign to educate citizens of possible hazards and <br /> mitigation options. <br /> Objective 2-2: Pursue strategies and technologies to improve warning and notification of hazard events and <br /> ensure that emergency services are adequate to protect public health and safety. <br />