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ID • <br /> RESOLUTION No. 6-0 6 <br /> A RESOLUTION OF <br /> THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF LOS ALTOS HILLS <br /> APPROVING THE ABAG REPORT "TAMING NATURAL DISASTERS" <br /> AS THE TOWN OF LOS ALTOS HILLS <br /> LOCAL HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN <br /> WHEREAS, the Bay Area is subject to various earthquake-related hazards such as <br /> ground shaking, liquefaction, landsliding and fault surface rupture; and <br /> WHEREAS,the Bay Area is subject to various weather-related hazards including <br /> wildfires, floods and landslides; and <br /> WHEREAS,the Town of Los Altos Hills recognizes that disasters do not recognize city, <br /> county, or special district boundaries; and <br /> WHEREAS,the Town seeks to maintain and enhance both a disaster-resistant city and <br /> region by reducing the potential loss of life,property damage and environmental <br /> degradation from natural disasters,while accelerating economic recovery from those <br /> disasters; and <br /> WHEREAS,the Town is committed to increasing the disaster resistance of the <br /> infrastructure, health, housing, economy, government services, education, environment <br /> and land use systems in the Town, as well as in the Bay Area as a whole; and <br /> WHEREAS,the Federal Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 requires all cities, counties and <br /> special districts to have adopted a Local Hazard Mitigation Plan to receive funding from <br /> FEMA; and <br /> WHEREAS,ABAG has approved and adopted the ABAG report"Taming Natural <br /> Disasters" as the Multi-Jurisdictional Local Hazard Mitigation Plan for the San Francisco <br /> Bay Area; <br /> NOW THEREFORE,BE IT RESOLVED that the Town of Los Altos Hills adopts, and <br /> adapts with its local annex, this Multi-Jurisdictional plan as its Local Hazard Mitigation <br /> Plan. <br />