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, . - 3 - • 1) Application of the principles in Table 1, "Land Use/Building Type Acceptable Rise Policy and Investigation Standards of the Seismic Safety Element" to categorization of safety risks in the Safety Element. 2) Application of high safety standards to all new construction and land uses. 3) Coordinated safety inspection programs involving two or more City departments, 4) A public policy determination of what constitutes a reasonable assignment of risk reduction responsibility between public safety services and the private property owner. 5) A gradual reduction of safety hazards with their attendant potential economic and social costs. 6) Indoctrination of the public on the need for certain safety measures, 7) Identification of urgently needed implementation measures and proposals for needed legislation. 8) Production of coordinated contingency plans for major disasters or emergencies among the Safety and Public Works services of the City. _ Eo Priorities for Safety Hazard Abatement Some safety hazards represent an everpresent danger to life and limb and to property, while others statistically occur infrequently or perhaps never in the lifetime of some, Fire is a hazard that� is everpresant, and earthquakes are an example of a hazard that only infrequently occurs in the Redwood City area. This is not to imply that the resultant destruction of a quake might not be more catastrophic than a fire, but that the odds of it occurring frequently as compared to a fire are quite low. For this reason, this element prescribes that a reasonable order of priority for abatement of hazards would be the following: 1) Fire hazards 2) Transportation hazards 3) Structural hazards a. Normal code violations b. Seismic safety hazards 4) Geologic hazards F. General Criteria for Land Use Land use patterns in Redwood City should take cognizance of inherent safety hazards in certain types of land use when place in proximity to other land uses and further, land use patterns should take cognizance of safety hazards present in certain geologically or seismically hazardous