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Safety element review centers on wildfire evacuation, home‑hardening and resilience options
Summary
Commissioners reviewed the draft General Plan Safety Element, raising questions about the '100‑year flood' metric, urging stronger language on home hardening and evacuation planning, and debating the feasibility and framing of microgrids versus smaller community mini‑grids.
City planning staff introduced the draft General Plan Safety Element and the commission spent significant time discussing flooding definitions, wildfire hazard maps and evacuation modeling.
Several commissioners said reliance on the FEMA '100‑year flood' term is outmoded and asked staff and consultants to consider updated hazard metrics; staff noted that FEMA maps remain the regulatory baseline for certain planning and insurance determinations. The commission also reviewed results from a state‑required…
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