The plague of NIMBY’s may yield if a real plan is put in place to rebuild better. Vast areas could be rezoned for density. A way of addressing the enormous number of displaced people could also address the largest homeless population in the USA. The city that defines urban sprawl could be redefined. How does this play out?
Huh? A big part of the problem was that there was housing so close to steep hillsides in the first place, I don’t think building more dense housing would be wise.
It would be if fire codes and improved materials are required. The problems arise from poor overall standards across scattered development. There were pockets of new and old. That will not be the case in these areas moving forward.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqq8-2ereKg
Reminds me of this concrete geodesic dome that survived previous fire seasons.
That is pretty awesome. Thanks for sharing.
Oh… I should add, it wasn’t a total success, the power poles supplying the building burned down in the fire - so they lost electricity.
A great demonstration of building for the environment
I think buried power lines would work better. Now would be the time to make that happen
Do you like, live in LA? I’m six miles from one of the fires and I can tell you now that putting up a bunch of dense housing where the fire was will totally not prevent fires in the future. The Santa Ana winds will continue and they’ll do so a lot more strongly if we don’t actually tackle climate change.
Probably the housing stock there shouldn’t have been built there in the first place, but they weren’t aware decades ago that we would have an event like this but now we do.
Yeah I live in Orange County in the same type of dense mess. There are plenty of standards and materials for buildings that will not burn. Building in the crap toothpick and papier-mâché style with no regulations for non flammable materials is the problem.