County-led climate adaptation plan presented to Clearlake council; public draft due

Clearlake’s City Council received a status update Nov. 6 on the Lake County Climate Adaptation Plan and associated climate vulnerability analysis, delivered by Shannon Walker Smith, deputy community development director for Lake County, and Jacqueline Prossen Rohrer of PlaceWorks. The plan covers unincorporated Lake County and the cities of Clearlake and Lakeport and will be organized around 10 “pillars of landscape resilience.”

Consultants said the vulnerability analysis evaluated 91 population groups and assets against eight climate hazards and identified wildfire and smoke as creating the most widespread vulnerabilities. The analysis lists the most vulnerable populations as people of color and immigrant communities, financially constrained households, people with chronic illnesses or disabilities, older adults, people with high outdoor exposure (including unhoused people and outdoor workers), and tribal communities. The most vulnerable community assets include energy and communication…