Wildfire Risk, Evacuation Planning & Public Safety
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Cupertino's hillside and foothill neighborhoods face genuine and growing wildfire exposure, and the City Council is updating its Health and Safety General Plan element for the first time since 2014. State law now requires expanded requirements related to wildfire, flooding, climate change adaptation, and evacuation planning — triggered by the city's 2024 Housing Element and Hazard Mitigation Plan updates. The issue came into sharp relief when the Council approved the Linda Vista Drive townhome project over residents' objections: Councilmember Wang, the lone dissenting vote, asked directly, "What's the consequences if we allow 800 residents to be in a severe fire with no evacuation routes?" The city's license plate reader program — which had been used partly for public safety — was also recently discontinued, adding to public safety debates.
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