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The San Leandro City Council adopted the Plan in a public meeting by Resolution 2011 -207 on December 19, 2011. The mitigation strategies will become an implementation appendix of the Safety Element of the San Leandro General Plan. Hazards Assessment The ABAG Multi-Jurisdictional Local Hazard Mitigation Plan, to which this is an annex, lists nine hazards that impact the Bay Area, five related to earthquakes (faulting, shaking, earthquake - induced landslides, liquefaction, and tsunamis) and four related to weather (flooding, landslides, wildfires, and drought). Maps of these hazards and risks are shown on the ABAG website at http://quake.abag.ca.gov/mitigation/. The City of San Leandro has reviewed the hazards identified and ranked the hazards based on past disasters and expected future impacts. The conclusion is that earthquakes (particularly shaking), wildland urban interface fire, and dam failure inundation pose the greatest risk for potential loss. The City of San Leandro does not face any natural disasters not listed in the ABAG multi - jurisdictional plan, and no new hazards have been identified by the City of San Leandro since submitting its Multi- Hazard Mitigation Plan to FEMA in 2005. While the City of San Leandro has undertaken a number of general hazard mapping activities since the first Safety Element was prepared by the City of San Leandro, all of these maps are less detailed and are not as current as those shown on the ABAG website at http: / /cluake.aba2.ca.2ov /miti2ation /. Past Occurrences of Disasters (natural and human - induced) The County of Alameda, in which the City of San Leandro is located, has experienced a number of different disasters over the last 50 years, including numerous earthquakes, floods, droughts, wildfires, energy shortages, civil disturbances, landslides, and severe storms. The Oakland Hills Firestorm of 1991, for example, ranks as one of the worst wildland -urban firestorm disasters to ever strike the United States with 25 deaths, 150 injuries, and the displacement of over 10,000 persons. With destruction and damage to over 3,400 residential units, losses were in excess of $1.5 Billion. The Loma Prieta Earthquake of 1989 is another example of the kind of large scale disaster which can strike the Bay Area. It killed 63 persons, injured 3,757, and displaced over 12,000 persons. With over 20,000 homes and businesses damaged and over 1,100 destroyed, this quake caused approximately $6 Billion of damage. Reconstruction continues some two decades later as the replacement for Oakland -Bay Bridge is still several years from completion. More information on State and Federally declared disasters in the City of San Leandro may be found at http: / /quake.abag.ca.gov /mitigation /ThePlan -D- Version- December09.pdf In addition to the declared disasters noted in Appendix D, locally significant incidents that have also impacted Alameda County and San Leandro in the last several years include: 2010 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan 4 December 21, 2011 City of San Leandro Annex