WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?
It's not hard to figure out.
The Woolsey Fire of 2018 decimated the Santa Monica Mountains and parts of Malibu. Even the City of Agoura Hills suffered damage, though not to the extent of other local communities. Perhaps that is why the City of Agoura Hills behaves as if there will never be another fire.
Notice the turquoise area in the center of the Woolsey Fire Map. This is where the City of Agoura Hills has chosen to place 15 of 20 (75%) of the city's affordable housing sites, right at the base of the fragile Santa Monica Mountains in the Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone.
Within three miles of these proposed sites, three people died in the Woolsey Fire that morning, hundreds of homes were destroyed and livestock, domestic pets and wildlife perished.The City of Agoura Hills is not only creating a NEW FIRE HAZARD with the placement of this housing - much of it high-density- they are deliberately misrepresenting the danger (see "Evacuation Analysis" section, above) by submitting a misleading Evacuation Analysis as adequate that leaves out a critical portion of Kanan Road and the populations of residents of the Santa Monica Mountains and Malibu.
Maybe the City of Agoura Hills feels it can afford to be irresponsible because it was not hit as hard by Woolsey as most of the surrounding area.
Twenty Housing sites. Fifteen (75%) south of the 101 Fwy.
Five largest* sites (25%) are on Kanan Road
Seven (33%) on or next to Kanan Road
Highest Density on or adjacent to Kanan Road
* Next largest site, Site H, is being allowed to have ONLY 4 affordable out of 66 condos.
For more details about Agoura Hills' Housing Element, click here.
For More about the city's Evacuation Analysis, click here.
