HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESO 10193Resolution No. 10193
Resolution of the Council of the City of Palo Alto Adopting Volume 1 and the City of Palo Alto Annex of
Volume 2 of the Santa Clara County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan as the City’s updated
Local Hazard Mitigation Plan, and Adopting a Comprehensive Plan Amendment incorporating the
updated Local Hazard Mitigation Plan into the City’s 2030 Comprehensive Plan Safety Element
R E C I T A L S
WHEREAS, the Bay Area is subject to various earthquake-related hazards such as ground
shaking, liquefaction, fault surface rupture; and
WHEREAS, the Bay Area is subject to various weather-related hazards including wildfires, floods,
and severe storms; and
WHEREAS, the City of Palo Alto recognizes that disasters do not recognize city, county, or special
district boundaries; and
WHEREAS, the City of Palo Alto seeks to maintain and enhance both a disaster resistant City of
Palo Alto and region by reducing the potential loss of life, property damage, and environmental
degradation from natural disasters, while accelerating economic recovery from those disasters; and
WHEREAS, the City of Palo Alto is committed to increasing the disaster resistance
of the infrastructure, health, housing, economy, government services, education, environment, and land
use systems in the City of Palo Alto, as well as in the Bay Area as a whole; and
WHEREAS, the federal Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 requires all cities, counties, and special
districts to have adopted a Local Hazard Mitigation Plan to receive disaster mitigation funding from the
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA); and
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALO ALTO RESOLVES AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Adoption. Adopts in its entirety, Volume I and the City of Palo Alto jurisdictional
annex of Volume II of the Santa Clara County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan, collectively, as
the Local Hazard Mitigation Plan (LHMP) for the City of Palo Alto.
SECTION 2. The City of Palo Alto commits to continuing to take those actions and
initiating further actions, as deemed appropriate by its City Council, officers, and employees,
identified in the City of Palo Alto LHMP by proposing to adopt the mitigation strategies listed
therein.
SECTION 3. The Safety Element of the City’s Comprehensive Plan is hereby amended in
accordance with Government Code section 65302.6, to incorporate the updated Local Hazard
Mitigation Plan into Safety Element Policy S-2.1, including a web link to the most current version of
the LHMP available at www.cityofpaloalto.org/lhmp.
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SECTION 4. On November 13, 2017, the City Council adopted Resolution 9720,
certifying an Environmental Impact Report for City of Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan 2030, of
which the Safety Element is a part. This amendment to the Safety Element will not result in any
new impacts or increase in the severity of previously identified impacts and therefore no
additional environmental review is required.
INTRODUCED AND PASSED: OCTOBER 7, 2024
AYES: BURT, KOU, LAUING, LYTHCOTT-HAIMS, STONE, TANAKA, VEENKER
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City Clerk Mayor
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Assistant City Attorney City Manager
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