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' MINUTES DRAFT--SUBJECT TO ' PLANNING COMMISSION' jPLANNING COMMISSION APPROVAL 7:30 P.M. SEPTII�ffiER 3, 1974 SUPERVISORS CHAMBERS, HALL OF JUSTICE & RECORDS, 401 MARSHALL STREET, REDWOOD CITY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Commissioners Biagi, Johnson, Price and Chairman Soderer. COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: Commissioners Arnold, Gonzales, and Murphy. E X C E R PT 1. GP74-04: Proposed Safety Element of the General Plan. PUBLIC HEARING. r Chairman Soderer introduced the subject report as part of the record. He asked for preliminary comments or questions from the Commissioners and staff. There were none. The Public Hearing was opened. There were no comments from the public. Mr. Schroeter suggested a number of changes in certain details of the proposal, mostly grammatical and some changes in word order for greater clarity and consistency. The only three substantive changes were the following: (1) add an Environmental Impact Negative Declaration state- ment at the beginning of the report to satisfy the requirement of the California Environmental Quality Act; (2) change paragraph IV-C-3 on page 5 to read: "Other flood hazard areas"; and change paragraph V-G-1 on pages 8 and 9 to read: "This elem�nt should automatically be reviewed and updated annually," Commissioner Biagi raised questions on the severity of enforcement programs that may be necessary and possibly harmful if some of the time deadlines were to be met. Mr. Schroeter gave his interpretation of the dates as being "targets" rather than "deadlines" which could be balanced against reasonable approaches to inspection and enforcement programs. He added that the main object of the Safety Element is to reduce or eliminate safety hazards wherever and whenever possible. Commissioner Johnson questioned the hazard of a break in one or both of the Emerald Lakes dams. Mr. Schoenfeld said that there were natural drainage courses below the dams, Mr. Schroeter said that the County is studying the hazard of all dams in the County, including the two Emerald Lakes, should there be breakage, and this information, when it becomes available, can be added with the next revision of this element. This also applies to all references to flood hazard areas. The Public Hearing was closed. ACTION: On motion by Commissioner Johnson, seconded by Commissioner Biagi, the Commissioners present voted unanimously to recommend to the City Council that the Safety Element, as modified, be adopted as part of the Redwood City General Plan. (Commissioners Arnold, Gonzales, and Murphy were absent.)