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2021 Multijurisdictional Local Hazard Mitigation Plan mitigation, and community preparedness to save lives and minimize the impact of natural hazards on a community. 6.3.7 Development and Permitting Capability Identifying previous and future development trends is achieved through a comprehensive review of permitting since completion of the previous plan and in anticipation of future development. Tracking previous and future growth in potential hazard areas provides an overview of increased exposure to a hazard within a community. 6.3.8 Adaptive Capacity An adaptive capacity assessment evaluates a jurisdiction’s ability to anticipate impacts from future conditions. By looking at public support, technical adaptive capacity, and other factors, jurisdictions identify their core capability for resilience against issues such as sea level rise. The adaptive capacity assessment provides jurisdictions with an opportunity to identify areas for improvement by ranking their capacity high, medium, or low. 6.3.9 Integration Opportunity The assessment looked for opportunities to integrate this mitigation plan with the legal/regulatory capabilities identified. Capabilities were identified as integration opportunities if they can support or enhance the actions identified in this plan or be supported or enhanced by components of this plan. Planning partners considered actions to implement this integration as described in their jurisdictional annexes. 6.4 HAZARD MITIGATION CAPABILITIES FOR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT The identification of hazards of concern and the areas that they affect allows local communities to review expected future development to assess whether it would be at risk from those identified hazards. Avoiding such future risk is a core element of local hazard mitigation. Through the capability assessment described in Section 6.3, all planning partners identified their ability to address risks to future development posed by identified planning area hazards of concern. San Mateo County and all incorporated cities included in this hazard mitigation plan have general plans, adopted under state law, to ensure that their governing bodies take actions that the community has determined to be the most orderly, beneficial, and supportive of the community vision. Decision-makers will guide development through the application of broad-based strategies to every issue pertaining to growth. These strategies provide direction to public and private planning processes, with guidelines for making consistent rational decisions for future development. The County intends to discourage development in vulnerable areas and to encourage higher regulatory standards on the local level. All planning partners have committed to link their general plans to this hazard mitigation plan. This will create an opportunity for wise land use decisions as future growth impacts hazard areas. The partners all reviewed their general plans under the capability assessments performed for this effort. Deficiencies identified by these reviews can be identified as mitigation actions to increase the capability to deal with future trends in development. 6-8