HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda Statement 1974/11/19 Item 02a,bAGENDA ITEM N0. [2a,b ]
CHULA VISTA CITY COUNCIL MEETING OF: November 19, 1974
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Public hearing - Consideration of Safety Element of the General Plan
Resolution - Adopting Safety Element of the General Plan
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INITIATED BY: Director of Planning
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1. The State Planning and Zoning Law (Government Code) requires that each city
and county shall prepare and adopt a Safety Element. The complete legislative
charge is embodied in Section 65302.1, which reads:
"The general plan shall include, in addition to the elements specified in
Section 65302, a safety element for the protection of the community from
fires and geologic hazards including features necessary for such protection
as evacuation routes, peak load water supply requirements, minimum road
widths, clearance around structures, and geologic hazard mapping in areas
of known geologic hazards."
2. The Safety Element is a companion general plan of the Seismic Safety Element,
which the City Council recently referred to the Planning Commission. While the
Safety Element covers fire safety and seismic safety, it concentrates on the former.
Seismic hazards are definitively addressed in the Seismic Safety Element.
ANALYSIS
1. The Safety Element is subdivided into the following sections:
The Introduction
Goal, General Objectives, and Statements of Policy
Standards and Design Proposals
Evacuation Routes
Fire Safety in 1990- The Fire Safety Plan
Bibliography
The Plan Diagram (continued on supplemental page)
ATTACHED: Resolution [X] Ordinance [ ] Agreement [ ] Plat [ ]
See EXHIBITS [X] No. 1, 2
Financial Statement:
Commission-Board Recommendation: On October 23, 1974, the Planning Commission,
by a 6-0 vote, recommended that "Safety, An Element of the General Plan" be adopted.
Department Head Recommendation: Concur
City Manager Recommendation:
Recommend adoption of Safety Element..
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2. The text of the element reviews past and current disaster, safety, and
emergency planning activity within the City of Chula Vista and San Diego County,
and refers to the Emergency Plan of Chula Vista, the Emergency Plan of the
Unified San Diego County Emergency Services Organization, and this municipality's
several safety-oriented plans, programs, and ordinances. The text, under the
"Introduction," also notes that "the purpose of this general plan is the establish-
ment of long-range, comprehensive, and general policy which will provide existing
and future safety programs direction, continuity, order, and substance."
3. The Safety and Seismic Safety Elements are complementary general plans, and
are designed to promote the long range, comprehensive, and general safety of the
Chula Vista Planning Area and its constituent communities. While the principal
goal of the Safety Element is fire safety, the Seismic Safety Element will emphasize
safety with respect to geologic hazards. The evacuation routes, peak load water
supply requirements, minimum road widths, and clearances around buildings addressed
in the Safety Element, however, are also designed to promote geologic safety.
The intermeshing of the two elements is further demonstrated in the Safety
Element's inclusion of mapped geologic faults in its plan diagram.
4. The tersely stated goal and general objectives of the Safety Element are
followed by eleven statements of policy, which constitute the constitution of
the general plan in question, and the bases for the subsequent standards and
design proposals. The said statements of policy directly address the charge
incorporated in Section 65302.1 of the Government Code.
5. Under "Fire Safety in 1990 - The Fire Safety Plan," the element foresees
that the City of Chula Vista will eventually require eight fire stations, including
the four in existence. The eight stations within the municipality, and the three
County fire facilities adjacent thereto, are generally located on the plan diagram.
The diagram also indicates evacuation routes and emergency centers. Some of
these centers are located at the SDG&E facility in the Bayfront community,
Fredericka Manor, Chula Vista High School, the Broadway Department Store, the
Community Congregational Church, and Southwestern College.
6. The design and location of future fire stations is addressed under the
Safety Element's "Standards and Design Proposals," to wit:
a. As a general rule, fire stations shall be distributed so as to provide
an average engine response time of four minutes, after receipt of alarm, to
all urbanized parts of the municipality.
b. The precise location of fire stations shall be determined by the following
factors:
1) Land Use Pattern, residential density, and building intensity.
2) Street patterns and traffic volume.
c. Fire stations should be sited on arterial streets or collectors. If
circumstances require the location of afire station on a minor street, the
said minor street should lead directly to an arterial street or collector.
d. Fire stations, where practicable, should be located on corner lots, or
lots with primary and secondary (alley) access. Stations should be situated
a minimum of three hundred feet from signalized intersections.
e. Fire station sites must be large enough to accommodate a station office,
living quarters for the on-duty personnel, areas for apparatus storage and
maintenance, offstreet parking, and environmental amenities, such as land-
scaping and walks. Where stations are located in areas of anticipated
growth, the fire station site should be of adequate size to accommodate
planned expansion. New fire stations should be built to house no less than
two apparatus.
f. The design of fire stations should be environmentally and aesthetically
compatible with adjacent land uses.
g. Where practicable, fire station houses should be one story in height.
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h. The siting of fire stations within the City of Chula Vista shall be
consonant with the standards of professional fire-fighting practice. The
standards of the Tnsurance Service Office shall, where practicable, and
responsive to local circumstances, be employed as preliminary guidelines.
7. The last two paragraphs of the text express the City of Chula Vista's
recognition of its continuing need for fire safety, and its determination to
protect the people and property within its jurisdiction.
"The provision of effective fire protection is dependent on the extancy
of adequate water, adequate water lines, and adequate water pressure.
Chula Vista's growth, therefore, should be gauged by its source of
domestic water, and its capacity to provide domestic water during periods
of peak demand and emergencies.
"The Fire Department and other municipal line agencies concerned with
public safety propose to effectuate the element through the employment
of concerted action, and public and staff educational programs."
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RESOLUTION) N0. PCM-74-24
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY PLANNING C01~!MISSIUN APPROVING AND
RECOMMENDING TO THE CITY COUNCIL THE ADOPTION OF TtIE SAFETY
ELEMENT OF THE GEIJ~RAL PLAN OF TIIE CITY OF CHULA VISTA
WHEREAS, the City of Chula Vista has an adopted General Plan, and
WHEREAS, Section 65302 (1) of the California Government Code requires that
a Safety Element be a part of all City and County General Plans, and
WHEREAS, the City Planning Department conducted a work program t'o insure
that the Safety Element will fulfill the State guidelines for the protection of
the community from fires and geologic hazards and
WHEREAS, the City Planning Commission considered the proposed Safety Element
at a public hearing held on October 23, 1974, notices of which were given in the
manner prescribed by law.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Planning Commission does hereby
approve the attached document entitled Safety, An Element of the General Play.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Planning Commission recommends that
the City Council adopt said document as the Safety Element of the General Plan,
City of Chula Vista.
PASSED and APPROVED by the CITY PLANNING CON•1MISSION on the 23rd day of
October, 1974 by the following vote, to-wit:
AYES: Commissioners Floto, Rice, Pressutti, Chandler, Rudolph and Starr
NOES: None
A6SENT: None
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Chairman
ATTEST:
Secretary
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