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Findings and Recommendations 9 findings
F1
No single agency or jurisdiction is taking responsibility and authority for building infrastructure for safe evacuation routes across jurisdictions in Marin County.
No recommendations for this finding
F2
There is confusion in the county as to who has ultimate responsibility and authority for ensuring that Marin has safe evacuation routes.
No recommendations for this finding
F3
Marin County Board of Supervisors and town and city councils have the responsibility for safe evacuation routing, and they have not sufficiently considered evacuation as a criterion when approving improvements to roads and traffic infrastructure in their jurisdictions.
Related Recommendations (1)
R1
of the date of this report, the governing boards of the County of Marin and its cities and towns should direct their respective planning and public works departments to include evacuation needs among their criteria for evaluating and recommending public works projects.
F4
County and municipal administrators, public works, and traffic engineers have not adequately considered mass evacuation as a criterion for planning and funding traffic infrastructure improvements.
Related Recommendations (1)
R1
of the date of this report, the governing boards of the County of Marin and its cities and towns should direct their respective planning and public works departments to include evacuation needs among their criteria for evaluating and recommending public works projects.
F5
Most Marin jurisdictions have not yet included urgently needed evacuation plans in their general plans as required by state law and as recommended by the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research.
Related Recommendations (1)
R3
In calendar year 2021, the County of Marin and its cities and towns should update the safety elements of their general plans to include evacuation planning.
F6
As Marin’s designated “congestion management agency,” the Transportation Authority of Marin, is best positioned to coordinate and support the funding of public works projects for improving evacuation routes, including cross-jurisdictional evacuation routes.
No recommendations for this finding
F7
Contrary to its previous responses to the Grand Jury, the Transportation Authority of Marin is not precluded or constrained from incorporating evacuation planning needs as a criterion in its infrastructure projects.
No recommendations for this finding
F8
The Transportation Authority of Marin’s decision-making process is inadequate unless it includes evacuation as a criterion when funding improvements.
Related Recommendations (2)
R2
of the date of this report, the governing boards of the County of Marin and its cities and towns should adopt resolutions calling on the Transportation Authority of Marin to include evacuation needs among the criteria it considers when planning and funding public works projects.
R4
of the date of this report, the Transportation Authority of Marin should establish a criterion requiring that evacuation impacts be examined and stated when planning and funding infrastructure projects.
F9
The Marin Wildfire Prevention Authority’s Advisory/Technical Committee would benefit from having the expertise of the Transportation Authority of Marin to advise on evacuation infrastructure needs.
Related Recommendations (1)
R5
of the date of this report, the Marin Wildfire Prevention Authority should invite a Transportation Authority of Marin representative to become an at-large, nonvoting member of its Advisory/Technical Committee to support program development, funding, and implementation of improvements in evacuation routes.
Conclusions 1
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CL1Planning, executing, and building for evacuation is an enormous, complex, expensive, and time- consuming task that can only be achieved one step at a time. As a start, to meet the need for safer evacuation, Marin’s officials and agencies should consider evacuation impacts whenever they are planning a new roadway improvement project. Success in this endeavor will require dedicated attention by our elected leaders and cooperation across and within Marin’s jurisdictions as well as the Transportation Authority of Marin and the Marin Wildfire Prevention Authority. With recognition of the progress made so far and in view of the extensive work that remains to be done, the Grand Jury is recommending the next steps needed to build for evacuation.
No Responses Found 6
Government entities assigned to respond to this report. No response documents have been linked in our database.