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Sonoma council approves safety-element contract amid public calls to use KLD SAFE evacuation study
Summary
The City Council unanimously approved a consent-calendar contract addendum to advance the General Plan safety element, prompting public speakers to press the city to consider the valley-wide KLD SAFE evacuation study and to clarify the contract's scope and weekend-event scenarios.
The Sonoma City Council on May 7 unanimously approved a consent-calendar contract addendum for the General Plan safety element after public comment urged the city to account for an earlier KLD “SAFE” evacuation study and to broaden the consultant scope.
Supporters of the KLD SAFE study and other residents said the proposed scope and budget for the city’s selected consultant may not produce an evacuation analysis as comprehensive as the community needs. They urged the council to consider KLD’s earlier work and to clarify whether the contract includes weekend-event scenarios and an explicit wildfire-event identification task.
The concerns came during public comment before the council voted on the consent calendar. Bean Anderson, who helped commission the SAFE study, said the…
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