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General FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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A regionally coordinated, long‑term recovery framework that outlines strategies, roles, and resources to guide rebuilding after major disasters while advancing each local community’s economic, social, and environmental goals.

Emergency response focuses on life‑safety and immediate needs (hours to weeks). The PDRP addresses long‑term recovery and redevelopment decisions (months to years) such as housing, infrastructure, and land‑use.

Lead partners are the City of Tampa, Hernando County, Hillsborough County, and Pinellas County. Their emergency management, planning, housing, public‑works, and economic‑development departments collaborate with regional, state, federal, nonprofit, and private‑sector partners.
Primarily hurricanes, tropical storms, storm surge, riverine flooding, wildfires, and other hazards that can cause long‑term community disruption.
A $1.3 million U.S. Department of Homeland Security Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant was applied for in 2023 and received in early 2024. The program is intended to close planning gaps before a disaster. The PDRP was just beginning when the 2024 storms impacted our region. This did present some minor delays to the project but also has allowed the process to be informed by the real time, multi-storm scenario that significantly impacted the region and each of the local communities.
Damage assessments, recovery cost data, and community feedback on redevelopment challenges from those events are being considered in the PDRP update strategies.

The State of Florida and each of the local governments have dedicated resources for impacted residents: 

The plan can recommend amendments, but any actual changes will follow each local jurisdiction’s typical public‑hearing and adoption process.
It will evaluate current requirements (e.g., NFIP, state building code) and may propose enhancements such as higher finished‑floor elevations where benefits outweigh costs. Final rulemaking is a local, public-hearing and adoption process.
No. It provides technical and strategic guidance to the communities, but decisions about entitlements, density, or allowable uses remain with elected officials and should be made through the comprehensive planning process.
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