We can't keep pushing Californians into the wildland-urban interface with our exclusionary zoning policies. It is risking people's lives and our planet.https://twitter.com/Scott_Wiener/status/1063490441025327104 …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
I get where this is coming from, and don’t disagree, but are the wildlife communities inhabited by folks who were excluded from urban locales? Paradise’s population has been consistent for decades.
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Replying to @RickPaulas
some of these people seem like they moved there from the Bay Area....https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/us/wildfire-victims.html …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
I more mean that the pop of Paradise has stayed steady since at least 1990.pic.twitter.com/PgTsKcRqls
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Replying to @RickPaulas
most Californian communities started controlling open space and housing unit growth in the 1970s and 1980s. I would guess that Paradise did the same, and is probably controlled & appreciating.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
So, that’s a case where exclusionary practices was... good, maybe? Is there a map of where’s acceptable and where isn’t, in terms of natural disaster risk?
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Replying to @RickPaulas
yes we should probably not have people be building out into high risk fire areas, but we should definitely increase density and allow more people to live in land that's more defensible.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
I agree mostly, but still having trouble wrapping my head around why it’s bad to build in wildfire zones but also good to build in earthquake zones.
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Replying to @RickPaulas
probably a question of frequency. Truly large earthquakes strike this region once every 100-150 years? Fires may increase in frequency to every 20-30 years, or even more, we just don't know with climate change. The financial calculus seems different.
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the amount of land across California burned is 5X last year. That week in October last year and this week this year... I mean, that's just never happened in my life before. I grew up here. I've never seen anything like it. If this just becomes a regular thing, a "fire week"....
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