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Title: Montecito Fire Protection District, CA -- Hazard Abatement Ordinance
Type: Regulatory
Property Insurance
Jurisdiction: Fire District
State: California
Program Description: The components of the Montecito Fire District's wildfire prevention policy include an ordinance, Montecito Fire Protection District Standard 93-1: Vegetation Management. This ordinance augments the relevant requirements put forth within the 1998 California Code and the California Public Resources Code Section 4291. Specifically, the Standard presents requirements for (1) clearing annual grasses and other light fuels; (2) creating defensible space in primary and secondary zones; (3) removing fire fuels from Environmentally Sensitive Habitat (ESH) and (4) maintaining roadway and driveway vegetation clearance. After three notices of violation, landowners are subject to criminal complaint through the judicial process. Authority to enforce the hazard abatement program is derived from the following:

  1. 1994 Uniform Fire Code Section 1103.2.4 appendix 11-A 16 & 17


  2. Title 19 -- CA Code of Regulations Section 3.07(b)(1)


  3. Public Resource Code (PRC) Section 4291


  4. Santa Barbara County Code Section 17 -- 15.

 Another component of the policy is the development of a Fire Plan. The District contracted with Firewise 2000 (Richard Montague) to complete the plan in 1999. They are now in the draft submittal stage of subsequent EIR completed by SAIC which addresses the projects defined by the Fire Plan. The District has been successful in obtaining grant funds for equipment with which to perform some of this pending work. These efforts are examples of both public education and technical assistance to property owners as they remove vegetation to create or maintain defensible spaces.

The policy takes into consideration an area of special concern. Nearly 50% of vegetation removal efforts are within Environmentally Sensitive Habitat (ESH) areas. Officials report "our biggest challenge has been to develop the confidence and support from the environmental community for our proposed mitigation methodologies with ESH areas" (Jim Langhorne, October 2001). To this end, the District has devised a fuel reduction approach that coverts ladder fuels into ground litter rather than removing it.

One other note-worthy component of the policy is the "Insurance Initiative". The goal of this innovative partnership is to remove surcharges for "excessive brush" from the insurance policies of the District's residents. This initiative introduces an economic incentive for property owners to implement and maintain the hazard reductions requirements found in the District's Vegetation Management Standard 93 -- 1.
Sponsored by the USDA Forest Service / Southern Research Station
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