File #: 18-00776    Version: 1
Type: Agenda Item Status: Passed
File created: In control: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
On agenda: 10/2/2018 Final action: 10/2/2018
Title: HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding Fuels Management and Community Defensible Space in the County of Santa Barbara, as follows: (EST. TIME: 45 MIN.) a) Receive and file an informational update with recommendations on Fuels Management and Community Defensible Space in Santa Barbara County presented by the Fire Chief and Fire Department staff with assistance from Federal (Los Padres National Forest) and State (Cal Fire) partners. Additionally, Planning and Development staff will summarize the proposed Safety Element update to the County's Comprehensive Plan, related to pre-fire planning; and b) Determine that the proposed actions are administrative activities that do not involve commitment to any specific project, and are therefore not a project as defined by State California Environmental Quality Act Guidelines Sections 15378 (b)(5). COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER'S RECOMMENDATION: APPROVE
Sponsors: COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT
Attachments: 1. Board Letter, 2. Attachment B - Glossary and References, 3. Attachment C - State of California Executive Order B-52-18, 4. Attachment D - Senate Bill No. 1260, 5. Attachment E - Assembly Bill No. 2911, 6. Public Comment - California Native Plant Society, 7. Public Comment - D'Antonio, 8. Public Comment - Dudley, 9. Public Comment - Los Padres Forest Watch, 10. Public Comment - O'Neil, 11. Public Comment - California Chapparral Institute, 12. Public Comment - Del Moro, 13. Presentation - Attachment A

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HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding Fuels Management and Community Defensible Space in the County of Santa Barbara, as follows: (EST. TIME: 45 MIN.)

 

a) Receive and file an informational update with recommendations on Fuels Management and Community Defensible Space in Santa Barbara County presented by the Fire Chief and Fire Department staff with assistance from Federal (Los Padres National Forest) and State (Cal Fire) partners. Additionally, Planning and Development staff will summarize the proposed Safety Element update to the County’s Comprehensive Plan, related to pre-fire planning; and

 

b) Determine that the proposed actions are administrative activities that do not involve commitment to any specific project, and are therefore not a project as defined by State California Environmental Quality Act Guidelines Sections 15378 (b)(5).

 

COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S RECOMMENDATION: APPROVE