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VIDEO. From the Half Moon Bay Planning Commission meeting on Tuesday, October 10th, 2023 at 7:00pm, as a hybrid meeting.
Chair, Rick Hernandez, introduces the agenda item, and Assistant City Manager, John Doughty, presents.
Full Agenda Report
A Safety Element is a State-mandated General Plan Element that identifies potential natural and human-caused hazards that could affect residents, businesses, and services in the community. The purpose of the Safety Element is to establish a framework that identifies and anticipates these hazards and prepares the community to minimize risks and harm resulting from these hazards.
In recent years, the complexity of Safety Elements has increased in accordance with additional State requirements, more sophisticated mapping, and expanded community outreach based on higher levels of public interest in climate change and hazard planning. To assist local jurisdictions with these requirements, detailed guidance from the Governor’s Office of Planning & Research and Office of Emergency Services to local governments on how to prepare vulnerability assessments related to climate change became available July 2020. City staff were not prepared to move forward with the Safety Element because at that time staff were fully engaged in completing the Local Coastal Land Use Plan (LCLUP). Staff anticipated that the General Plan Housing and Safety Elements would trail that effort. The Housing Element is nearing completion and staff is now initiating the work plan for the Safety Element.
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