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3/31/26,9:56 AM KHA Mail-Please add my comments to the official record for 2026 Kittitas Comp Plan Updates <br /> c, Regional Planning Authority (Upper County) <br /> ■ Elected or appointed to serve the community for current and future generations specific to: <br /> ❑ Road systems— <br /> * Update Upper County Road systems to support our current and future <br /> population. <br /> ■ Our current roads are all dead-end EXACTLY LIKE PARADISE, CA. All <br /> residents of Suncadia, Roslyn, Ronald & North to Lake Cle Elum (including <br /> campgrounds, horse parks, boating on high mountain lakes, hiking trails& <br /> river day parks) enter and exit on SR 903 (2 lane)with NO ALTERNATE <br /> EVACUATION ROUTE NOR ACCESS FOR EMERGENCY SERVICES <br /> HEADING TOWARD FIRE AND EMERGENCY! Think Fire! <br /> • Prior to approval of any/all future developments, the developer must be <br /> required to develop multiple evacuation routes of sufficient width for fire equipment <br /> access &emergency evacuation of residents (at the same time), that do NOT use <br /> SR 903. Ronald, Roslyn, and the Bullfrog Road roundabout will be major <br /> bottlenecks. <br /> ❑ Fire services—enough equipment& infrastructure and staff to support current population <br /> forecasted population growth. <br /> ❑ EMS—enough equipment and staff to support current population forecasted population <br /> explosion <br /> Valuable Lessons Learned from: Paradise California "Camp Fire" 2018 <br /> ■ Here's how Paradise ignored warnings and became a deathtrap: https://www.latimes.com/local/ <br /> cal ifornia/la-me-camp-fire-deathtrap-20181230-story.htmI#::text=It%20remained% <br /> 20doomed%20because%20for,hail%20of%20fire%20rained%20down. <br /> ■ A Los Angeles Times investigation found that Paradise ignored repeated warnings of the risk its residents <br /> faced, crafted no plan to evacuate the area all at once, entrusted public alerts to a system vulnerable to fire, <br /> and did not sound citywide orders to <br /> Paradise "Camp Fire" was predicted by early planners but ultimately allowed by aggressive developers <br /> Appletree Village senior mobile home park in Paradise destroyed by Camp Fire <br /> 13 LappMWOO WHH aaaa *8n!@T irfi(Wie h@irno payk in <br /> psmdog(�D da)o2T(Dyod by C smp ... <br /> https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ik=fO8ae6a8l d&view=pt&search=all&permthid=thread-f:1861043606425493072&simpl=msg-f:186104360642549307... 2/6 <br />