Require multiple evacuation routes or safe refuges in new development
#00291
Approve high-risk development only when residents can reach safety through adequate route capacity or a defendable refuge under modeled fire scenarios.
Parent issue
#00249 Development continues in high-risk wildland-urban interfaces
Sustainable Development Goals
Location
global
Description
Developers demonstrate evacuation time, route redundancy and refuge performance before approval. Plans account for congestion, fire direction, disabled vehicles and populations needing assistance.
A second road is useful only if it remains viable under the same hazard. Modeling and exercises should test independence.
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