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Lompoc council adopts updated General Plan safety element after CAL FIRE revisions, adds evacuation and wildfire measures
Summary
The City Council adopted amendments to Lompoc's 2030 General Plan safety element, accepting CAL FIRE-required measures, revised evacuation analysis and new wildfire and flood mapping; council asked staff to pursue a letter to Caltrans about San Lucia/Santa Lucia Road impacts.
The Lompoc City Council on Sept. 2 adopted updates to the city's General Plan safety element and an addendum to the 2030 General Plan environmental impact report, formalizing new wildfire, flood and evacuation measures recommended following state review.
The contract planner, Laurie Tamura, told council the update incorporates recently released fire-hazard mapping and a 2022 local hazard mitigation plan, and responds to CAL FIRE comments. "The safety element update is triggered by a couple of different actions'that either occurred by the state or through the city action," Tamura said during her presentation.
The update adds 17 new action measures to the element; Tamura said 14 through 22 of those were direct requirements from CAL FIRE and other additions address climate-change hazards such as…
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