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Title: Montecito Emergency Evacuation Study Update

Description: The emergency evacuation study completed in 2022 for the Montecito Fire Protection District offered a detailed look at considerations for evacuations in Montecito to help expand the community’s preparedness to emergencies that require evacuation. The 2022 analysis tested two scenarios with phased evacuation of zones north of SR-192. The report recommended studying a more granular phased evacuation to determine if it could reduce congestion on the roadway network. This study uses a more granular phased evacuation with smaller draft evacuation zones to understand the changes to potential congestion impact of evacuating zones north of SR-192. This report documents the 2023 analysis results along with a comparison between the 2022 analysis and 2023 analysis to understand the effect of using smaller evacuation zones and evacuating smaller areas during the first phase of an evacuation. The results, as described throughout this report, show that more granular evacuation zones allow for evacuation of fewer people which results in less congestion on the roadway network than the 2022 analysis.