General Plan Update Review Committee Draft Elements Part 2 For ...

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VISALIA GENERAL PLAN UPDATE
Objectives
S-O-2 Protect the community from risks to life and
property posed by flooding and stormwater
runoff.
Policies
Flood Hazards
S-P-8 *Reinforce the City’s transportation infrastructure
for protection from flooding
through activities such as elevating the road,
installing culverts beneath the road, or constructing
a higher bridge across an area that
experiences regular flooding.
S-P-9 *Implement post-fire debris flow and channel
treatments, such as seeding, mulching, and
checking dams and debris racks, as needed.
S-P-10 Implement recommendations contained in
the County Flood Control Master Plan that
are within the City’s jurisdiction.
S-P-11 *Create and implement a public outreach
program that informs property owners
located in flood hazard and levee inundation
areas about voluntary flood insurance.
S-P-12 *Increase participation in the National Flood
Insurance Program by enhanced floodplain
management activities that may allow property
owners to receive a discount on their
flood insurance.
S-P-13 *Work with State and federal agencies to create
a program to acquire, relocate, or elevate
critical facilities and residential structures,
in particular those that have been identified
as Repetitive Loss properties that are located
within the 100-year floodplain.
S-P-14 *Work with FEMA Region IX to address
any floodplain management issues that may
have arisen/arise from the countywide Digital
Flood Insurance Rate Map, Community
Assessment Visits, and/or the California
Department of Water Resources oversight.
8.3 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
The California Code of Regulations defines a hazardous
material as a substance that, because of physical
or chemical properties, quantity, concentration, or
other characteristics, may either (1) cause an increase
in mortality or an increase in serious, irreversible, or
incapacitating, illness or (2) pose a substantial present
or potential hazard to human health or environment
when improperly treated, stored, transported or disposed
of, or otherwise managed. 4 Hazardous wastes
are hazardous materials that no longer have practical
use, such as substances that have been discarded,
discharged, spilled, contaminated, or are being stored
prior to proper disposal. A hazardous materials incident
involves the uncontrolled release of a hazardous
substance during storage, use or transport.
4 California Code of Regulations, Title 22, Division 4.5, Chapter 10,
Article 2, Section 66260.10