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City of San Leandro Housing Element Update (2015-2023) Project Initial Study and Environmental Checklist within the boundaries of the land use compatibility plans for Oakland International Airport and Hayward Executive Airport. However, the Housing Element does not include any policies which would promote in- compatible land uses near the airport, and sites identified under the Housing Element have previously been zoned for residential use. Further, compliance with the provisions of the airport land use compatibility plans, along with goals, policies, and action in the Environmental Hazards Element of the 2002 General Plan, would ensure thatpotential impacts regarding airport safety would be less than significant. fi For a project within the vicinity of a private airstrip, would the project result in a safety hazard forpeople residing or work- ing in the project area? There are no private airstrips within the vicinity of the locations where future residential development could occur under implementation of the Housing Element. Thus, there would be no impact related to private air- strip hazards. g) Mould the project impair implementation of or physically interfere with an adopted emergency response plan or emergency evacuation plan? Adoption of the Housing Element alone would not result in land use changes that would impair or physically interfere with the ability to implement the City's Multi Jurisdictional Local Ha.Zard Mitigation Plan. Future residen- tial development would be required to comply with 2002 General Plan goals, policies, and actions regarding public safety included in the Environmental Hazards Element. Additionally, the proposed Project does not include potential land use changes that would impair or physically interfere with the ability to implement the City's Multi Jurisdictional Local Hazard Mitigation Plan. Therefore, compliance with the provisions of the Cali- fornia Fire Code (CFC), the General Plan goals, policies, and actions regarding safety, and the CBC would ensure thatpotential future development under the proposed Project would result in a less -than -significant im- pact with respect to interference with an adopted emergency response plan or emergency evacuation plan. h) Mould the project expose people or structures to a significant risk of loss, injury or death involving wildland fires, including where wildlands are adjacent to urban.Zed areas or where residences are intermixed with wildlands? CalFire Fire Hazard Severity Zone Maps for Alameda County show a small portion of the city along its east- ern border, east of I-580, and areas within the city's Sphere of Influence as a "Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone (VHFHS)." Seven small, single family zoned housing element sites in existing residential areas are with- in the VHFHS zone. However, as mentioned, adoption of the Housing Element alone would not result in physical development. Future development allowed under the Housing Element would be required to comply with the goals, policies, and actions of the 2002 General Plan included in the Environmental Hazards Ele- ment, along with being constructed pursuant to Title 7, Chapter 7-5 of the San Leandro Municipal Code which, among other codes, incorporates requirements contained in the CBC, and CFC. As noted above in Section VIII.g, compliance with these regulations would reduce the risk of loss, injury, or death resulting from wildland fire and impacts would be less than significant. Page 132