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<section article="glu" article_name="Land Use" number="3-108" title_number="3" title_name="Comprehensive Plan" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Requirement and Elements">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In addition to implementing the planning principle in § 1–201(b)(6) of this article, the resilience element shall address:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the coordination of local preparedness efforts to identify potential threats facing the local jurisdiction with the long–term strategies to avoid, reduce, and recover from changing conditions and associated disasters; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the mutual assistance needed among State and local partners to respond to the challenges of changing conditions and disasters, including human–caused and natural hazards, and to build, advance, and maintain capacities related to quality of life, health and well–being, durable systems, economic vitality, human–made and nature–based infrastructure, and sustainable environmental systems.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The resilience element shall be informed by the following State plans:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the State Resilience Strategy, as described in § 14–1202 of the Public Safety Article; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the State of Maryland Hazard Mitigation Plan, as required under 44 C.F.R. Part 201.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Department of Planning shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>provide a local jurisdiction with the best available population, demographic, economic development, and housing data from the U.S. Census Bureau and other standard sources; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>facilitate, to the extent possible, the provision of data relevant to the preparation of the resilience element from other State agencies.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The resilience element may include:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>an inventory of areas susceptible to a natural or human–caused hazard, such as flooding, including riverine and coastal flooding, sea–level rise, and coastal storm surge, which inventory may consider the potential disaster impacts on individuals, communities, institutions, businesses, economic development, public infrastructure and facilities, and public health, safety, and welfare;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>an inventory of existing resilience conditions that promote resilient planning, design, and development, and that may be coordinated with other jurisdictions and State agencies; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>recommended strategies and policies:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>to protect susceptible areas and resources and mitigate risks to public safety, critical infrastructure, historic structures, public investments, and other community resources; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>that are intended to:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>reduce risks associated with identified hazards;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>adapt to changing conditions; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>promote quicker recovery after a disaster.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
