Project Opportunity Matrix (Newly Updated!)

The priority projects the RPP team identified are available in the newly developed RPP Project Opportunity Matrix below and in the project postings on this Santa Barbara Wildfire Resilience website. As new needs come into focus, projects are completed and new possibilities emerge, the database will remain a work in progress. Note that the database has additional data not included in the project postings.

Projects are listed in rows and information about each project is captured in columns including working titles, project descriptions, priority, impact areas addressed, potential and key, partners, funding sources, and more. We welcome your ongoing contributions and insights about the projects listed and about new opportunities as you identify them. Please reach out to info@sbcwildfireresilience.org.

Use your key pad or mouse to scroll through the database, hover over the project name you are interested in, and click on the “Expand Record” button that appears. Here you can view a single project record as a scrollable card for easier legibility. You can use the filter and group buttons to filter by project priority level, impact areas and more.

RPP Wildfire Resilience Project Permitting Guide

The matrix includes a portfolio of projects across a broad array of impact areas. Some address the need to build capacity, develop and refine policy, educate and organize and likely will not require permitting (and thus are easier to implement). Others focus on restoration, vegetation management, invasive species removal, and creating wildfire buffers in a variety of ways and will likely require environmental review and permitting. Many funding sources are seeking “shovel-ready” projects that have all required permitting and environmental review completed. To apply for such funds, agencies or community-based organizations must undertake detailed planning and permitting in advance, which can limit the community’s ability to advance these projects. This underscores the need for dedicated community capacity to advance high priority projects to the stage where they can secure implementation funding (see the Collaborative Resourcing project).

To facilitate the successful implementation of priority projects, the RPP team prepared this guidance about which projects require permitting and which agency’s project proponents should consult with to move that process forward. This guide is designed as a roadmap of the types of permits that may be required for different project types. Permit requirements depend on site-specific conditions including whether there is a presence or absence of environmentally sensitive habitat, as well as project details such as whether the project affects air quality. Since many of the projects herein are still in the conceptual stage, it is not possible to definitively list needed permits. With that in mind, the RPP team compiled this general guidance based on discussions with RCD leaders and project proponents who have completed many similar projects.

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In addition to the table above, we have included project specific permitting guidance in the RPP Opportunity Matrix. For the many projects therein that do not require permitting, we have noted that within the column as well.