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DRAFT SAFETY ELEMENT of the REDWOOD CITY GENERAL PLAN I. INTRODUCTION A. Authority and Purpose Section 65302.1 of the California Government Code requires that all general plans have a safety element. Its purpose as stipulat,ed in the legislation is: A safety element for the protection of the community from fires and geological hazards including features necessary for such protection as evacuation routes, peak load water supply requirements, minimum road widths, clearances around structures, and geologic hazard mapping in areas of known geologic hazard. The first safety element of the Redwood City General Plan will highlight the more obvious and known safety hazards pending more definitive studies which are expected to ensue in succeedin� years. � II. POLICY STATEMENTS A. Safety Hazards 1) The City of Redwood City recognizes the fact that many types of safety hazards exist within its boundaries despite its diligent prosecution of existing standards, codes and regu- lations. The City is cognizant of the existence of certain hydrological and many types of man-made hazards which it proposes either to abate or reduce to an acceptable level of risk through various combinations of public and private actions. 2) It will be the policy of the City of Redwood City to insti- tute study programs to definitively identify the exact nature and extent of certain hazards and to incorporate into the on-going legislative and management process specific meas- ures designed to reduce identified hazards, or to eliminate them. B. Goals The safety goals of the City of Redwood City are to: 1) Revise and administer all codes and safety regulations app- licable to new construction, whether public or private, to obviate the existence of safety hazards which present either unacceptable or avoidable types of safety risks.