2013 EERI Annual Meeting Session: Resilience Planning

1. Resilience Planning
The application of community resilience for
disaster planning from national, state, and local
perspectives.
Chris D. Poland, Moderator
Chairman and Senior Principal
Degenkolb Engineers
2013 EERI Annual Meeting
February 13, 2013

2. The Conversation
 Introductory Remarks
 Case Studies of Resilience Planning
 Audience Provided Case Studies
 General Open Discussion
 Suggestions to EERI for the Resilience
Observatory
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3. Goal:
Resilient Communities
• A Resilient Community can take “the Punch” of
an event and through preparedness and the
impromptu response of those affected, recover
quickly.
• Goal is to save the people, their neighborhoods,
their cultural heritage and their local economy.
• Earthquake Professionals have a contribution to
make to every aspect.
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4. Resilient Communities
Requires a Holistic Approach before and
after the event
• Human Resilience is the engine
• Infrastructure Resilience is the foundation
• Recovery governance sets the pace and
direction
• Financial Resources are the fuel
Requires public education, interim governance models,
financial planning and performance based
engineering.
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5. Public Education
Human Resilience: Knowing what may
happen, how to respond, and deciding to “tip-
in” and contribute to the recovery. Damage
must be expected and recovery possible.
 Understand the earthquake potential
 Understand what will happen to their
homes, neighborhoods, jobs, and
businesses
 Have plans for immediate response and for
long term recovery
 Able to “shelter-in-place” and help out
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6. Recovery Governance
Core functions of government
• Provide vision and leadership for recovery and rebuilding
• Restoring public facilities and services
• Provide resources and information
Why is it different than business as usual?
• Time compression
• Scale
• Tension between rebuilding quickly and deliberately
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7. Governance
Need to do
• Predefine a transitional form of governance
• Maintain current land use plans that include
what can be done better. Deal with
liquefaction, landslide, and faulting zones
• Develop reconstruction codes and standards
• Develop a new generation of communication
• Identify mechanisms for financing rebuilding
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8. Finance
Available Sources
• Personal Savings
• Insurance
• NGO Community
• Banks and investors
• Business
• Federal Government
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9. Performance Based Engineering
• Transparent Hazard Definitions
• Transparent Performance Measures for
Buildings
• Transparent Performance Measures for
Lifelines
• Performance Goals that support response and
recovery
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10. Case Studies of
Resilience Planning
Invited and offered

11. Case Studies of Resilience Planning
Chris Poland San Francisco’s Earthquake Safety
Improvement Program and the Soft Story Legislation
Jason Biermann Snohomish County Emergency
Planning initiative to create a pre-disaster recovery
framework.
Yumei Wang Oregon’s plans to build resilience
including in their Critical Energy Infrastructure
Susan Cutter NRC’s looking forward in the
report Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative
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12. San Francisco Earthquake Safety
Improvement Program (ESIP)and
the Soft Story Legislation
Patrick Otellini and Laurence Kornfield
City and County of San Francisco
Presented by Chris Poland

13. 23 Years in the Making
 Initiated by the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake
 Mandated a UMB Ordinance and began
retrofitting/replacing City owned buildings
 Influenced by the SPUR Resilient City Initiative
 Amended the Community Safety Element of
the General plan
 Developed a the Community Action Plan for
Seismic Safety (CAPSS) for privately owned
buildings
 ESIP Established by Mayor Newsom in the City
Administrators Office
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14. ESIP
September 2011
30 year program to
mitigate privately owned
buildings and prepare for
recovery.
Community developed and
supported
Provides a three step
approach
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15.  Includes 50 tasks and ESIP
three phases of effort
 Start Up – High Risk
 Implementation Critical
 Implementation All other
 Three step approach to
resilience.
 Facilitate the market
 Nudge the market
 Retrofit y deadline
Recommended Action
Mandatory Evaluation
Mandatory Retrofit
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16. Soft Story Legislation
Mandatory retrofit
ordinance introduced with
7 year goal
Pre ’78, Wood Frame, 3+
stories, 5+ units
Mitigates one of the most
significant potential
impacts to San Francisco
Retrofit goal is shelter-in-
place
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17. Companion Programs
 Lifelines Council
 Neighborhood Empowerment Network
 Neighborhood Emergency Response Teams
 Resilient San Francisco Initiative
 Capital Planning Program
 Building Occupancy Resumption Program
 Community Engagement
 Give2SF
 SF Community Agencies Responding to Disasters
 SF Ready
 Vial of Life
 72 hours.org
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18. Questions?
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