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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tri-City Agencies Working Together on New Local Hazard Mitigation Plan

Get Involved and Help Your Community be Hazard-Ready!

FREMONT, Calif. - The Cities of Fremont, Newark, and Union City, and the Alameda County Water and Union Sanitary Districts are partnering to develop a new Tri-City Multi-jurisdictional Local Hazard Mitigation Plan (LHMP). The new Tri-City LHMP will meet all requirements to update the City of Fremont’s 2016 LHMP and the 2017 Union City/Newark Multi-jurisdictional LHMP. Floods, earthquakes, wildfires, and severe weather are just a few of the hazards to which the Tri-City area is vulnerable. While natural hazards such as these cannot be prevented, we can reduce the risk they pose to our community. An LHMP is a foundational plan to reduce community risk associated with natural disasters – assessing and analyzing risk and formulating and prioritizing long-term strategies to reduce risk. An LHMP also allows each participating public agency to apply for certain Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) grants to reduce such risk. The new LHMP will also provide an important framework for each cities’ floodplain management program, which may result in lower flood insurance premiums for area residents and businesses under FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), Community Rating System (CRS).

You are invited. We encourage the public to attend and participate in our upcoming meetings. Informational Public Meetings will explain the LHMP development process, the benefits of cities’ participation in the CRS program, and how you can become involved. Please select the time and location that works best for you!

Upcoming Public Meetings

Informational Public Meeting (Offering #1)
May 23, 2023 (Tuesday) 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
George M. Silliman Community Activity Center – Community Meeting Room
6800 Mowry Ave.
Newark, CA 94560

Informational Public Meeting (Offering #2)
July 13, 2023 (Thursday) 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Age Well Center at Lake Elizabeth
40086 Paseo Padre Pkwy.
Fremont, CA 94538

In addition, Planning Committee Meetings among participating agency personnel and other stakeholders—to develop the plan—are all open to the public.

Planning Committee Meeting #1 (Project Kickoff)
May 23, 2023 (Tuesday) 1:30 – 4:00 p.m.
Downtown Event Center
3500 Capitol Ave.
Fremont, CA 94538

The Cities of Fremont, Newark, and Union City are seeking interested community representatives to participate on a special floodplain management Steering Committee—and to regularly attend Planning Committee Meetings —over the course of the project, through early 2024. If you are a Fremont, Newark, or Union City resident and interested in being appointed to the Steering Committee, please contact the following:

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MEDIA CONTACT :

Geneva Bosques
Director of Communications and Legislative Affairs
City of Fremont
510-284-4094
gbosques@fremont.gov