About Citizen Marin
STATE ALLIANCE FOR FIRE SAFE ROAD REGULATIONS
https://preserveruralsonomacounty.org/safrr/safrr-about/
Please join us in holding our State and local officials accountable for the unnecessary risks and dire consequences you and your loved one’s face when minimum fire safe regulations are not enforced and evacuations fail as a result.
Both existing communities and new developments often rely on sub-standard access roads and bridges for evacuation, leading to inevitable and dangerous bottlenecks.
Experts unequivocally assert that fire professionals require a minimum of 20 feet road width for concurrent evacuee egress and fire safety equipment ingress. And, that development should never occur on dead-end roads more than one mile long. Yet, local governments have proven unwilling to ensure that land-use developments meet the critical fire safe standards.
Political pressure exerted by a coalition of experts, fire professionals, non-profit environmental organizations, homeowner associations and grassroots activists paid off. As of December 2021, heavy lobbying by the Rural County Representatives of California (RCRC) and developers attempted to gut the fire safe regulations. However, SAFRR went into a full court press by leveraging its network of strong voices that ultimately turned the tide.
CENTER for BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY
At the Center for Biological Diversity, we believe that the welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature — to the existence in our world of a vast diversity of wild animals and plants. Because diversity has intrinsic value, and because its loss impoverishes society, we work to secure a future for all species, great and small, hovering on the brink of extinction. We do so through science, law and creative media, with a focus on protecting the lands, waters and climate that species need to survive.
We want those who come after us to inherit a world where the wild is still alive.
OUR NEIGHBORHOOD VOICES
OURNEIGHBORHOODVOICES.COM
Using an initiative process to reverse the damage done by housing laws. Seeking to place it on the 2026 ballot.