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Advisory board presses planners to add urban wildfire mitigation, evacuation and equity guidance to comp plan
Summary
Board members urged planners to expand the comp plan’s approach to wildfire beyond vegetation adjacent to natural lands, to add urban wildfire mitigation, evacuation planning for institutions and equity in directing limited mitigation funds.
Multiple Environmental Advisory Board members raised wildfire risk as a priority for the comp-plan update and urged staff to include explicit policy language for urban wildfire mitigation, evacuation planning and equitable allocation of mitigation resources. A written note from board member Alice—read into the record by a board member—recommended additional framework for "wildfire preparation mitigation for urban areas, not…
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