Home Hardening Assistance and Training Program for Lower Income Communities
There is a need for financial and logistical assistance to undertake home hardening in Lompoc. While there is ample information available to assist property owners (and renters) with preparing their residence to remain safe from fire, there are no funds to support this work, and no locally trained workers who can complete the upgrades.
Chumash Resilience Hub & Network Planning
Chumash community members living in the Lompoc area have expressed a need for an Indigenous-led and focused resilience hub and linked networks for communication and coordination among Chumash residents.
Cultural Fire Education Training Modules for Burn Bosses and Educational Forum
Chumash peoples have developed an internal training module series to educate their burn bosses and those who are working in the "good fire" and cultural fire realm.
Fortify Critical Water Storage Access at Miguelito Canyon Bridge
The Lompoc Fire Department has a robust water delivery system for firefighting, which pulls water from wells, plus 4 storage tanks located throughout the region.
Enhance Language & Cultural Accessible Wildfire Preparedness Education
During discussions with the various partners who deal with communities that may not speak English as their first language, a need to provide materials related to fire resiliency in various languages was identified.
Regional Plan for Housing Authority Facilities for Structure Hardening & Flammable Vegetation Mgmt.
The Housing Authority wishes to consider a regional assessment of the properties they manage to consider the needed upgrades for the properties they own.
Home Hardening Fund for Lower Income residents in High Fire Risk Areas of Lompoc Valley
There is a need to help homeowners prepare their homes for wildfire, particularly for lower income residents in vulnerable areas who lack resources or know how.
Mapping Project to Identify Flammable Invasive Plant Species Across Large Land Holdings
The mapping of eucalyptus trees on large ranches (which has been identified as a source of concern for fire ignition) would help to reduce fire risk throughout the region.
Develop the Wildfire Resilience Workforce
Santa Barbara Communities, such as Lompoc, lack the necessary workforce to implement fuel reduction, prescrived burns and other preventative measures.
Develop Water Sharing MOUs to Create Redundancy for Firefighting Water Supply
New development standards and zoning are important tools to ensure future residential development and growth is not in harms way of wildfire and flooding, or impacting sensitive biological resources.
Create Zoning & Development Standards for High Fire and Flood Areas in Lompoc
New development standards and zoning are important tools to ensure future residential development and growth is not in harms way of wildfire and flooding, or impacting sensitive biological resources.
Community-based Organization Disaster Coordination Plan & Capacity Support
Develop a plan with identified roles for key CBOs to be activated before, during and after disasters to assist and coordinate with emergency response agencies.
Establish Community Resilience Hubs
Resilience hubs promote community preparedness, well-being and trust-building and connect residents to resources and services before during and after a natural disasters or disruptions.
Large Landscape Scale Fire Risk Reduction Planning and Coordination in North County
There are a number of efforts occurring across large landscapes in North Santa Barbara County that could be synergized and woven together for increased impact and holistic wildfire risk reduction and habitat improvement, resulting in increased impact.
Activities will include capacity building, partnership development, and coordination to advance and integrate strategies for fire resilience and align and advance priorities with those of the adjacent communities.
Creating a Collaborative Resourcing Team: Maintaining Opportunity Matrix and Getting Projects Shovel Ready
This project opportunity matrix and the RPP site are valuable community assets, but the information herein represents a snapshot of needs at this point in time and is not exhaustive. Building wildfire resilience in Santa Barbara County needs to be an ongoing proactive process. As identified projects are implemented, new needs and opportunities will emerge on an ongoing basis and need to be added to the Opportunity Matrix. The RPP team recommends a focused effort to create a Collaborative Resourcing Team that includes representatives from multiple agencies, nonprofits and funders to further develop these key pieces of our resilience system and then to maintain and put them to use.
City of Santa Barbara Wildfire Resiliency Project
The Parks and Recreation Department and Fire Department have partnered to improve the community’s fire resilience and reduce the risk and severity of wildfires. The collaboration balances the expertise of both teams to manage vegetation while protecting the natural ecosystems within the city’s open space parks. This work is a critical component of Santa Barbara’s Community Wildfire Protection Plan.
Parma Park Hazardous Fuels Mitigation Project
Parma Park is a City of Santa Barbara owned 200-acre open space park located within the extreme foothill zone of the high fire hazard area. The park is composed of twelve different vegetation communities. The native bigpod ceanothus chaparral community makes up a majority of the park space, followed by the coast live oak woodland and forest community.
Honda Valley Park Vegetation Management
Honda Valley Park is a City of Santa Barbara owned 48-acre open space park located within the coastal interior zone of the high fire hazard area. The park has diverse, dense vegetation along steep slopes and within canyons, as well as a heavy understory of invasive plants and thatch.
Carpinteria Community Resilience Hub
Girls Inc. of Carpinteria provides year-round programming for girls and their families at its facility which includes classrooms, a STEM lab, library, conference room, gymnasium, kitchen, offices and outdoor spaces. Girls Inc. recently opened a 24/7 community food pantry, a clothing closet for women and girls and now offers mental health services.