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Draft Update - Fire Hazard Planning Technical Advisory released for public review

By Alyssa Silhi posted 11-16-2020 03:27 PM

  
As California grapples with the most extensive wildfires in the state’s history, the Office of Planning and Research (OPR) has released a draft update to the Fire Hazard Planning Technical Advisory (Fire Hazard Planning TA) for public comment.  OPR has requested CSDA circulate the document and desires feedback from the special district perspective and ways in which the Fire Hazard Planning TA update intersects with district fire risk local planning and reduction efforts at the community scale.

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Public comments on the draft are due to OPR by December 18, 2020. Provide input through OPR's Public Comment Submission form. 
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OPR staff will host a webinar to present the draft Fire Hazard Planning TA and answer questions. This webinar will be live streamed and archived on OPR’s YouTube channel. Staff may host additional webinars during and after the public review process. To receive future webinar announcements, sign up for the OPR Announcements E-List.  

The draft update has been prepared in response to Senate Bill 901 (Dodd, 2018) and Assembly Bill 2911 (Friedman, 2018), which called for OPR to update the Fire Hazard Planning TA to include specific land use strategies to reduce fire risk to buildings, infrastructure, and communities.

The document is directed at the land use level and meant to assist cities and counties as they revise their general plans and provides guidance on:
• outreach and engagement to promote more robust and collaborative wildfire solutions;
• conducting comprehensive wildfire hazard and risk assessments;
• aligning and integrating these assessments across a variety of plans; and
• developing general plan policies and programs that reduce risk for existing and future communities.

However, special district input and examples are invited for potential inclusion in a final document. The final Fire Hazard Planning TA is expected to be released in early 2021. Once finalized, the updated Fire Hazard Planning TA will supersede the initial version published in 2015. 

The TA includes sample policies and programs, case studies, potential funding sources, and numerous other resources and tools to support local level planning and implementation to reduce wildfire risk.
 Please contact Alyssa Silhi, the CSDA legislative represntative handling this issue, with questions at alyssas@csda.net

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