Mission Canyon Fire Prevention This presentation will probably involve audience discussion, which will create action items. Use PowerPoint to keep track of these action items during your presentation In Slide Show, click on the right mouse button Select “Meeting Minder” Select the “Action Items” tab Type in action items as they come up Click OK to dismiss this box This will automatically create an Action Item slide at the end of your presentation with your points entered. Mission Canyon Fire Prevention Eli Kersh-Oliva Delwin Leung Viviane Vincent Peter Thermos Tyler Eck

Mission Canyon Planning Advisory Committee To provide reasonable, practical, and objective guidance to assist residents, home-owners, and designers in identifying the key design characteristics and components that define the character of a neighborhood in designing new or remodeled homes; To guide, educate and motivate owners, developers and designers to create projects that contribute to community design objectives to enhance the livability of mission canyon; And To provide the tools needed for staff, the county's board of architectural review, other decision makers, and community members to properly evaluate development proposals within the context of these guidelines

Mission Canyon

Extreme Hazard

Motivation Helping the Fire Department, Mission Canyon Planning Advisory Committee, and Mission Canyon Residents Provide greater general public awareness On average of every 13 years, there is a great fire in Mission Canyon and is now due for one.

Objective Potential fire hazard map Vegetation/structure map Provide greater general public awareness

Methods Mapping of the Mission Canyon through the use of: Variables: Overlays Multicriteria Decision Making (AHP) Buffer Proximity Variables: Slope, Proximity, Vegetation, and Road Width

Methods – MCDM (lecture 13)

Data sources Coordinating data between agencies: SB County Fire Dept. (Capt. David Neel) Public Works GIS Manager (Zacharias Hunt) UCSB Research (Rick Church) MCPAC (Ray Smith) Thus far we have received: DEM (slope and aspect) Map of vegetation types Transportation networks Parcel map APN (structure)

Anticipated Problems Fire!!!!!! Unregistered photos Improperly formatted data Incompatible layers

Final Product will be used by: Mission Canyon Planning Advisory Committee Santa Barbara County Fire Department Vegetation Manager Access fire hazards and determine future development and planning. And Dr. Goodchild, who will determine that we deserve the $2000

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