Protectors and Residents in the Santa Monica Mountains
STATE MANDATED HOUSING
The Regency Project is just the beginning
There's nothing wrong with new housing coming to Agoura Hills! The state needs housing!
It's about WHERE that housing is placed in terms of fire and evacuation safety.
Every city and jurisdiction in the state is required to build a pre-established number of very low, low and moderate income residences by 2029.
The City of Agoura Hills is mandated by the state to build 318 such units.
The City selected the 20 sites seen at right to build the state mandated housing and has received approval from the state for all sites.
PRISMM specifically appealed, not only to the Agoura Hills City Council, but to the Southern California Association of Governments on separate occasions, to rethink placing the vast majority of these high density housing sites south of the 101 Freeway in the fragile VHFHSZ (Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone), WUI (wildland/urban interface) at the base of the extremely fragile Santa Monica Mountains, especially after the tragic experience of the 2018 Woolsey Fire. Not only is the area a tinderbox, but the highest density of residences will congest the area's primary evacuation route, Kanan Road. Neither city leaders nor SCAG replied to our appeals.
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Have we learned nothing from the Woolsey Fire?
The City of Agoura Hills has decided to place 15 of 20 housing sites south of the 101 Freeway in the Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone in the Wildland-Urban Interface at the base of the vulnerable Santa Monica Mountains where 97,000 acres burned and 3 people lost their lives in the Woolsey Fire, not seven years ago. Many of the 1600+ structures destroyed have not yet even been rebuilt. The City is placing its highest density projects at or near the mouth of the primary evacuation route out of this section the Santa Monica Mountains, Kanan Road.
