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LAFCO Regional Planning

LAFCO is seeking to develop a regional strategy for growth in the County through a planning effort with partners and cities.

Wildfire Resilience Summit

Create a regularly occurring opportunity for cross sector sharing learnings and collaborating on potential policy, actions and projects.

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Regional Lompoc Valley Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP)

The Lompoc region has been identified as a high priority for fire prevention activities by the modeling completed by the RPP team but the region lacks a Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP).

Emergency Response Dispatch System Integration

The current countywide dispatch system for all emergency response is grouped under the Sheriff's Department including fire and law enforcement. Each fire district and law enforcement agency (e.g. Santa Barbara City Police Department)…

Restoration with a Fire Resilience Focus: Riparian Restoration in Goleta Valley to Reduce Fire Risk

Healthy riparian corridors with natural unimpaired hydrology are natural fire breaks, with well watered vegetation acting to catch and extinguish embers and dampen fire advancement.

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LAFCO Regional Planning

LAFCO is seeking to develop a regional strategy for growth in the County through a planning effort with partners and cities.

Regional Capacity for Lompoc for Resilience Projects

Establish a partnership in Lompoc for resilience related projects and begin building partner capacity to plan, coordinate …

Interactive Partner Directory: Santa Barbara County Wildfire Resilience Players

There are many people, organizations and agencies working in the fire readiness and climate resilience fields here in Santa Barbara County, but even professionals dedicated to wildfire prevention in the county are not necessarily aware of and connected to everyone else doing this work.

Create an Interactive Map of All Recommended Wildfire Resilience Projects

This opportunity matrix is a useful compendium of priority projects, but it is presented in table form, as project descriptions on the website.

Funding for Defensible Space Assistance

While county residents generally have a high level of awareness of fire risk and high compliance with risk reduction recommendations and requirements, some community members are unable …

Countywide GIS Public-Private Partnership

Many agencies and community based organizations maintain GIS data for internal purposes and needs. As a result, there are multiple specialized systems for particular needs and redundant technical capacity.

Addressing WUI Wildfire Buffer Gaps

The communities throughout Santa Barbara County have varying degrees of wildfire buffer along their WUI edges. Goleta benefits from significant portions of its WUI edged by irrigated orchards

Project Fundraising, Management and Collaboration Facilitation Capacity

Building resilience will require implementing the projects listed in the RPP, and doing so requires additional capacity to catalyze partnerships, further project planning, prepare compelling grant proposals, and successfully managing projects.

Countywide Fine Resolution LIDAR Data

There is a long term need to acquire Santa Barbara County wide, cross jurisdictional, LIDAR data in addition to the periodic orthographic overflights that are undertaken for aerial mosaic mapping product needs.

Home Hardening Fund Communities in high fire risk portions of the WUI are top priority places to support home hardening and emergency preparedness.

There is a need to help homeowners prepare their homes for wildfire across the county, particularly those in more vulnerable areas and those who lack resources or know how.

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Fire Safe Council Staff and Capacity

The Santa Barbara County Fire Safe Council has been an entirely volunteer-run organization without paid staff up until now, but the SBC FSC is now the recipient of significant grant funding from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation via a new project called the Regional Wildfire Mitigation Program (RWMP).

Prescribed Grazing: Develop a Countywide Plan

Prescribed grazing (also known as prescribed herbivory) enables fuel treatment in sloped and difficult to access areas where other vegetation management options are challenging or impractical.