2005/05/24 City Council Resolution (19)RESOLUTION NO. 2005 -161
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF ROHNERT PARK APPROVING THE ABAG REPORT
"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
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 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, 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 FEMA; and
WHEREAS, ABAG has approved and adopted the ABAG report Taming Natural Disasters
as the multi - juri sdictional 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.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City of Rohnert Park
commits to continuing to take those actions and initiating further actions, as appropriate, as identified
in the City of Rohnert Park Annex of that multi jurisdictional Local Hazard Mitigation Plan.
DULY AND REGULARLY ADOPTED on this 24th day of May, 2005, by the City of
Rohnert Park City Council.
City of Rohnert Park
Attest