The fires raging in Los Angeles County and Ventura are an urgent signal that we need to start asking the hard questions — about the true cost of expanding the local tax base with new residences in high fire hazard zones. We need to stop having the same conversation over and over again, a conversation laced with non-sequiturs and focused on outdated, ineffective solutions. — latimes.com
The fires consuming California homes are located in wildland areas, where developers continue to spread cities further. Planning agencies should be the first line of action, not firefighters.
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The faults in planning are on a regional and site specific scale. Allowing homes to encroach on the wild areas means that controlled burns that reduce the fuel load can not happen as hey should to maintain a healthy ecosystem. The individual homes built with combustible exterior materials, widows that do not have fire shutters and the most problematic issue the lush landscaping that becomes highly flammable when dried by a drought. If they fix the landscaping that is like a torch waiting for an ember to land and burn your house down and conduct controlled burns right up to the property lines of the hillside homes they could greatly reduce the threat of fire to property and life, but the treat is always there, it can only be mitigated.
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