PROJECTED COMPLETION DATE:12/19

LOCATION:Located west of the City of Santa Barbara.

Summary: The San Marcos Pass Project is critical due to its unique combination of fuel, topography and unique weather patterns. The project lies within the 1990 Painted Cave Fire footprint where 660 homes were destroyed during an especially significant sundowner wind event. The roadside maintenance and installation of fuel breaks, identified in the San Marcos Pass/Eastern Goleta Valley Mountainous Area Community Wildfire Protection Plan, are designed to improve access, evacuation routes, and community defensible space. The identified projects would reduce declining chaparral along the two fuel breaks and annual grasses and chaparral along the roadsides.

What communities or habitats will project protect? Goleta, Mission Canyon, Santa Barbara.

PROJECT NAME: SAN MARCOS PASSPROJECT NAME: PAINTED CAVE COMMUNITY DEFENSIBLE SPACE SIZE: 3,096 A

CRES

Program area: Fire PlanProject status: ActiveCEQA type: Categorical Exemption

San Marcos Pass Fuel ReductionCalMapper T Number:YYCASBCT400020 CalMapper ID: 3012-2015-FPL-001

44 Acres

5.59 Acres

24.49 Acres

8.05 Acres

San Marcos Pass Planned Treatment: 66.65 Acres

San Marcos Pass Fuel Reduction Treatment: 82.13 Acres

San Marcos Pass Fuel Reduction Project Boundary

25.15 Acres

41.51 Acres