A city’s safety element establishes policies and programs to protect the community from risks associated with seismic, geologic, flood, and wildfire hazards, as well as from other concerns such as drought.
The current process underway will update the Safety Element to meet new requirements enacted under State law and to align it with the Town’s section of the updated Marin County Multi-Jurisdictional Local Hazard Mitigation Plan (MJHMP) adopted in 2024. For funding and other implications, it is important the MJHMP and the General Plan Safety Element are consistent with one another. Additionally, several other changes to the element will serve to make it consistent with housing element policies and more streamlined.