AmeriCorps members remove juniper bushes in the parking lot of the San Rafael Community Center. The work is in preparation for creating a fire-resistant garden. From left are Heather Byle, Emma Lucier, Kimberly Conforti and Tracy Burton Bravo. (Alan Dep/Marin Independent Journal)
Fire officials are proposing about $3.8 million in fire protection projects in San Rafael next year.
The draft 2023-24 plan is the city’s portion of the larger countywide Marin Wildfire Prevention Authority work plan that is being prepared for the upcoming fiscal year.
Kate Anderson, the city’s hazard mitigation coordinator, said some key initiatives will be ongoing vegetation management projects, expanding the city’s hillside parking box program and executing more prescribed burns, including pile burning and larger-scale broadcast burning.
“The big goals of this are…
