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<br />To assist local governments in meeting the DMA 2000 requirement, the Association of Bay
<br />Area Governments (ABAG) received a grant from FEMA to prepare a Multi-Jurisdictional
<br />Mitigation Plan for the San Francisco Bay Area. The annexes to ABAG's Bay Area Mitigation
<br />Plan are specific to each participating jurisdiction or special district. Since May 2004, ABAG
<br />has been working with Pleasanton's Building Department and LPFD to develop a mitigation
<br />plan that meets the requirements.
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<br />The overall goal of an all hazard mitigation plan is to work to reduce the potential loss of life,
<br />property damage, and environmental degradation from natural disasters, while accelerating
<br />economic recovery from those disasters. The Bay Area Mitigation Plan is a joint effort by the
<br />cities, counties and special districts in the Bay Area to build a more disaster-resistant region.
<br />We recognize that disasters do not respect the boundaries between our individual jurisdictions
<br />and have worked together to identify our hazards, assess our risks, and develop a comprehensive
<br />list of strategies (or actions) to mitigate the identified risks.
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<br />The ABAG multi-jurisdictional Local Hazard Mitigation Plan, to which the City of Pleasant on's
<br />Mitigation Plan is an annex, lists nine hazards that impact the Bay Area. Five are related to
<br />earthquakes (faulting, shaking, earthquake-induced landslides, liquefaction and tsunamis) and
<br />four related to weather (flooding, landslides, wildfIres and drought). These hazards also impact
<br />the City of Pleasant on, with the exception of tsunamis.
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<br />The full Bay Area Mitigation Plan is available at http://quake.abag.ca.gov/mitigation/plan.html.
<br />The attached City of Pleasanton's Local Hazard Mitigation Plan annex details specifIc hazards
<br />to the City of Pleasanton that are not covered in the Bay Area Mitigation Plan, the planning
<br />process, mitigation priorities for the City of Pleasant on, and the plan update process.
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<br />Participants and Information Used to Create Pleasanton's LHMP Annex
<br />The following participated in the local hazard mitigation plan annex for the City of Pleasanton:
<br />ABAG, Building Department, Planning Department, Police Department, Public Works
<br />Department, Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department, City of Livermore representatives,
<br />Pleasanton Unified School District, Valley Care Hospital, and Zone 7 Water agency.
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<br />Pleasanton's All Hazard Vulnerability Analysis was fed into the planning process for the multi-
<br />jurisdictional mitigation plan, and the mitigation strategies are based on these hazards. In
<br />October 2003, a telephone survey was conducted for several key businesses in Pleasanton such
<br />as: large employers, companies with hazardous materials, event facilities, top sales producers,
<br />etc. The data from these surveys, along with the following information, was used to update
<br />Pleasanton's All Hazard Vulnerability Assessment in February 2004: Safety Element to
<br />Pleasanton's General Plan, ABAG's hazard assessment data, USGS, FEMA's flood maps,
<br />CalTrans Seismic Hazard maps, University of California at Berkeley, California State
<br />Geological Survey, California Department of Forestry, California Department of Water
<br />Resources, California Highway Patrol, Zone 7 Water, and Livermore-Pleasanton Fire
<br />Department Hazardous Materials Area Plan, etc.
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<br />SR 06:026
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