HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso - CC - 057-2011RESOLUTION NO57-2011
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BURLINGAME
APPROVING THE ABAG REPORT "TAMING NATURAL DISASTERS" AS THE CITY
OF BURLINGAME'S LOCAL HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN
WHEREAS, the Bay Area is subject to various earthquake -related hazards such as
ground shaking, liquefaction, land sliding, fault surface rupture, and tsunamis; and
WHEREAS, the Bay Area is subject to various weather-related hazards including
wildfires, floods, and landslides; and
WHEREAS, the City of Burlingame recognizes that disasters do not recognize city,
county, or special district boundaries; and
WHEREAS, the City of Burlingame seeks to maintain and enhance both a disaster -
resistant city 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 Burlingame is committed to increasing the disaster resistance of
the infrastructure, health, housing, economy, government services, education,
environment, and land use systems in the city, as well as in the Bay Area as a whole;
and
WHEREAS, the federal Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 (Act) requires all cities, counties,
and special districts to adopt a Local Hazard Mitigation Plan to receive disaster
mitigation funding from FEMA; and
WHEREAS, ABAG has approved and adopted the ABAG report "Taming Natural
Disasters", created in collaboration with the participating jurisdictions, as the multi -
jurisdictional Local Hazard Mitigation Plan for the San Francisco Bay Area;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Burlingame adopts, and adapts
with its local annex, this multi -jurisdictional plan as its Local Hazard Mitigation Plan.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City of Burlingame
commits to continuing to take those actions and initiating further actions, as appropriate,
as identified in the City of Burlingame Annex of that multi -jurisdictional Local Hazard
Mitigation Plan by adopting this list of mitigation strategies as the Implementation
Appendix of the Safety Element of Its General Plan.
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Mayor
I, MARY ELLEN KEARNEY, City Clerk of the City of Burlingame, do hereby certify that
the foregoing Resolution was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council held on
August 15, 2011 and was adopted by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: BAYLOCK, BROWNRIGG, DEAL, KEIGHRAN, NAGEL
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
City Clerk