Priority Area C: Sustainability and Resilience
Priority Area C: Sustainability and Resilience
Foster a resilient community through climate adaptation, sustainability, hazard mitigation, and emergency preparedness efforts.
Core Services
Climate Adaptation Planning
Engage the community and develop long-term plans to mitigate for the impacts of sea-level rise in San Rafael.
Hazard Mitigation
Identify hazards that threaten the community, determine their likely impacts, set mitigation goals, and prioritize strategies to lessen these impacts.
Sustainability Initiatives
Guide Citywide sustainability efforts and programs aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions across the City and community.
Protects Against Wildfire
Create and implement vegetation standards for residential properties. Conducts inspections to ensure compliance, provides public education on wildfire prevention, gives grants to aid in compliance, and conducts inspections to ensure compliance.
Emergency Management
Enhance the safety and resilience of the community, and the City's ability to respond to emergencies.
Emergency Preparedness
Engage the community through education and training initiatives to enhance emergency preparedness.
Reduce greenhouse gas emissions from both community and municipal sources. - C.1
C.1.1 Develop and implement a plan to expand the facility electric vehicle charging infrastructure and begin transitioning the City’s fleet to zero emission vehicles.
C.1.2 Work with transportation partners to implement the Electric Vehicle Acceleration Strategy and reduce community vehicle miles traveled.
C.1.3 Expand community composting, revise purchasing policies, and collaborate with Zero Waste Marin and Marin Sanitary Service to continue the implementation of SB 1383, the Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Law.
C.1.4 Reduce community building energy use through incentive programs, community education, and engagement tools as outlined in the County Building Electrification Roadmap.
Strengthen community preparedness and resiliency for earthquakes, wildfires, flooding, and sea level rise through comprehensive hazard mitigation, risk mitigation, and climate adaptation efforts. - C.2
C.2.1 Identify funding for Local Hazard Mitigation Plan projects and begin implementation of the highest priority projects.
C.2.2 Continue implementing the Wildfire Action Plan and evaluate the need for revisions including focusing on zone zero (0-5 feet from homes and structures).
C.2.3 Implement existing policy and program commitments in the General Plan 2040, and implement building code policies to support community resiliency, specifically to address the potential hazards listed in Goal C.2.
C.2.4 Develop a Sea Level Rise Adaptation Plan that complies with SB 272.
C.2.5 Explore governance models and a formal collaborative public-private-philanthropic partnership as a foundation for climate adaptation work.
Enhance the community's capacity to prepare for and respond to emergencies and natural disasters. - C.3
C.3.1 Improve citywide readiness and resilience for disasters and evacuations through outreach and training.
C.3.2 Coordinate and support Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT), Neighborhood Resources Groups (NRG), Firewise, and similar grassroot groups with training, drills, and resources.
C.3.3 Increase the number of San Rafael residents signed up for AlertMarin.
Enhance staff capacity to prepare for and respond to emergencies and natural disasters. - C.4
C.4.1 Develop and implement a multi-year training and exercise plan for Disaster Service Workers and Emergency Operations Center staff in collaboration with other agencies in the County.
C.4.2 Review, update and provide continued training for staff on the City’s Emergency Operations Plan.
C.4.3 Develop and train employees on a Continuity of Government Plan.
C.4.4 Research and invest in technology to support staff’s ability to respond to an emergency or natural disaster.
Calendar Year 2024 by the Numbers
27,331
People are signed up for Nixle emergency alerts
32.3%
Percent reduction in household carbon footprint by participants of Resilient Neighborhoods program.
5,173
Houses inspected for compliance with vegetation management standards.
98%, 95%
Percent of commercial properties and multi-family properties respectively composting in compliance with SB 1383.
2,661
Residents engaged with sea level rise work.