by Kelly Pohl | Apr 22, 2019 | News
April, 2019. The American Planning Association has published a new guide, Planning the Wildland-Urban Interface. CPAW team members, Molly Mowery and Kelly Johnston, are among the authors. The report offers planners an in-depth introduction to the WUI and wildfire...
by Kelly Pohl | Apr 22, 2019 | News
March, 2019. CPAW team members presented at the annual International Association of Fire Chief’s Wildland-Urban Interface Conference in Reno, Nevada. The presentation, titled Planning for the WUI: Tools, Tips, and Trends summarized land use planning strategies for...
by Kelly Pohl | Feb 5, 2019 | News
January 2019. Oregon Building Codes Division has adopted an amendment to the Oregon Residential Specialty Code that allows local jurisdictions to adopt wildfire hazard mitigation provisions for residential structures. The provisions are based on the International Code...
by Kelly Pohl | Nov 30, 2018 | News
November 2018. The Community Planning Assistance for Wildfire program announced that four new communities will join 26 others in the CPAW program in 2019. The communities are Gunnison County, Colorado; Mariposa County, California; Pinetop-Lakeside, Arizona; and...
by Kelly Pohl | Nov 27, 2018 | News
November 2018. As part of the CPAW program, Headwaters Economics and the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety released a new report that documents negligible cost differences between building a typical home and a home constructed using wildfire-resistant...
by Kelly Pohl | Oct 6, 2018 | News
September, 2018. Taos County, a 2016 CPAW community, adopted new Land Use Regulations to help reduce wildfire risk. Many of the adopted regulations stemmed from recommendations provided by the CPAW team, and include a more clearly defined wildland-urban interface,...
