Casas Arroyo Fire Prevention and Protection Plan

Values Assessment from an Open Homeowners Meeting

Three general categories of topics were evaluated by ten people, who stayed at the February, 1991 meeting to provide input to this process.

The first category, Values, has 8 items. The second category, Prevention, is a list of 6 techniques that may be used to reduce the probability of a catastrophic fire, and the third, Firefighting, is a list of 5 strategies that may aid firefighters should a fire actually start on or near the property. Voters were asked to assign a priority on the first two categories, one being lowest preference, 5 being the highest, and to write any comments they wished. The charts summarize results. (See Appendix A for the original data and comments.)

Casas Arroyo Characteristics
Natural Look	3.9
Homes	3.4
Wildlife	3.5
Vegetation	3.6
Narrow Roads	2.8
Privacy	2.6
Low Cost	2.6
Health	3.2

Prevention Options
Citizen Watch	3.2
Mowing	3.2
Picking Up Wood	3.5
Pruning	2.5
Grazing	1.9
Prescribed Burn	1.0

The fire prevention team recognizes that the ten people who participated represent only a sample of homeowners; the responses and specific comments, however, show that the exercise was valuable as an indicator of the relative acceptability of some of the management options, and of the relative values placed upon some of the characteristics of the Casas subdivision.