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Resident urges update to Austin’s Community Wildfire Protection Plan and raises concern about cell towers near habitat
Summary
A public speaker at the May 8 Austin City Council meeting urged the city to update its 11-year-old Community Wildfire Protection Plan and to consider cell towers as a wildfire risk, saying residents have not received promised staff follow-up.
At the council’s public comment period on May 8, Carol Phillipson, chair of the Austin Firewise Committee and a District 10 resident, urged the City of Austin to update its Community Wildfire Protection Plan, which she said is 11 years old and in need of revision to reflect new risks.
“I was taught that the way to reduce any fire risk is to reduce the ways it can start,” Phillipson said, saying cell towers “may be infrequent, but they do occur” and can be devastating…
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