2012/02/28 City Council Resolution 2012-25RESOLUTION NO. 2012-25
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ROHNERT PARK
ADOPTING THE PLAN `TAMING NATURAL DISASTERS' AS THE CITY OF ROHNERT
PARK'S LOCAL HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN
WHEREAS, the Bay Area is subject to various earthquake- related hazards such as ground
shaking, liquefaction, landsliding, 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 Rohnert Park recognizes that disasters do not recognize city, county,
or special district boundaries; and
WHEREAS, the City of Rohnert Park seeks to maintain and enhance both a disaster resistant
Rohnert Park 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 Rohnert Park 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 Rohnert Park, 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 multijurisdictional Local Hazard
Mitigation Plan for the San Francisco Bay Area;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Rohnert Park adopts, and adapts
with its local annex, this multi jurisdictional plan as its Local Hazard Mitigation Plan.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City of Rohnert Park commits to continuing to take
those actions and initiating further actions, as appropriate which are identified in the Rohnert Park
Annex of that multi jurisdictional Local Hazard Mitigation Plan.
DULY AND REGULARLY ADOPTED this 28th day of February, .2012 by the City of
Rohnert Park City Council.
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