La Cañada Flintridge City Council
June 16, 2026

City of La Cañada Flintridge
Citywide Evacuation Plan
Response to Request for Proposal

17 Community Engagement and External Agency Coordination To inform the Citywide Evacuation Plan, Team
CONSTANT will conduct thorough coordination with
external agencies and facilitate multiple modes of
community engagement. Team CONSTANT will apply
our best practices for facilitating multi-agency
coordination, including a similar process being
undertaken currently for the City of Malibu, to develop, vet, and socialize concepts within the Citywide
Evacuation Plan.

External Agency Coordination
Below, Team CONSTANT proposes coordination
mechanisms with external government agencies
involved in evacuation planning and response, including fire, law enforcement, transportation, and emergency
management partners. We recommend facilitating
structured Planning Team Meetings to iteratively build
towards plan development.

Planning Team Meetings
Team CONSTANT will work with Planning Team
stakeholders to develop and socialize a Citywide
Evacuation Plan that is practical and actionable for the City and its partners to implement. The Citywide
Evacuation Plan will cover robust operational and
tactical elements, including regional and interjurisdictional considerations. As such, the purpose of the Planning Team Meetings is to engage a multi-disciplinary collection of stakeholders and organizations who can provide detailed information about current practices, processes, and/or systems in place for evacuation, lead discussions on City strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in evacuation coordination, and brainstorm actionable and realistic recommendations to bridge identified weaknesses and threats. The Planning Team Meetings will facilitate discussions to build from previously determined evacuation procedures and areas for improvement following the 2025 Eaton Fire.

The formal Planning Team will be convened to provide guidance, feedback, and insight over a series of four virtual (4) Planning Team Meetings. Team CONSTANT will work closely with the City PM to identify and engage Planning Team members for commitment and engagement over structured meetings. Examples of multi-agency participants for the Planning Team include stakeholders from the City of La Cañada Flintridge, LASD, LACFD, LACDPW, Los Angeles County Office of Emergency Management (OEM), Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro), Pasadena Transit, CHP, Cal Trans, Cal OES, private transportation providers, the American Red Cross, the Salvation Army, Southern California Edison, Southern California Gas, La Cañada Unified School District, the Jet Propulsion

CONSTANT CONDUCTED

STAKEHOLDER

ENGAGEMENT FOR THE CITY

OF LONG BEACH
CONSTANT convened a
Planning Team for the City
of Long Beach Evacuation
and Shelter-in-Place Plan.

Attendees included
representation from the
across City Departments
(Fire, Transit, Port, Utilities,
City Attorney, City
Manager, Parks and
Recreation, Facilities
Maintenance, Health, etc.)
and external partners.

Planning Team meetings
coincided with iterative
plan drafts.

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Citywide Evacuation Plan
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18 Laboratory, Genasys, businesses, local community-based organizations, AFN representatives, and advocacy groups, local media representatives, and representatives from neighboring jurisdictions who could receive evacuated community members. It is pertinent that representatives from the AFN community are integrated within the planning process from start to finish.

During each meeting, drafts of the plan will be workshopped. These meetings will follow a logical sequence that represents a building block approach. For each meeting, Team CONSTANT will provide a read-ahead agenda, presentation, notetaking guide and meeting minutes. The meetings will focus on the following:
• Results of the Documentation Review and subsequent analysis, including identification of evacuation challenges, threats that would require site support, and high-risk neighborhoods exposed to priority threats. • Pinpointing assumptions that will inform the Citywide Evacuation Plan. • Identifying assets to understand current resources, gaps, and overlap and subsequent adjustments to planning efforts. This includes cataloguing organizations, infrastructure, and resources that are used during an evacuation. − Assets may include: emergency services providers and first responders, medical and health resources, public and private transportation, utilities, logistics and supplies, communication, alert and warning, and public information systems, sheltering and accommodations, coordination and mutual aid agreements, and community engagement and education. • Outcomes of review of Genasys Protect, GIS data, traffic models, and other evacuation support technology as further discussed in Hazard and Evacuation Analysis. This will enable an analysis of available and alternate evacuation routes, including identifying new recommendations for evacuation routes, alternate routes, potential traffic control points, and assembly and sheltering areas. • Codification of roles, responsibilities, control, and safety of responders in the event of an evacuation. Focus on coordinating procedures, sequences, communication protocols, and responsibilities with requesting and executing an evacuation, and applying best practices and lessons learned from recent evacuation operations in the City and surrounding region. Integrate implications for the City as a contract City.
• Considerations for the AFN community.
• Table of contents/outline and initial draft of the Citywide Evacuation Plan. • Final draft of the Citywide Evacuation Plan following receipt of stakeholder and community comments, inclusive of photos, maps, and analyses data.

We recommend that each Planning Team Meeting includes both plenary and breakout sessions to allow for general discussions and deep dialogue with appropriate stakeholders on evacuation-specific concepts (i.e., command and control, traffic management, alert and warning/public information, AFN considerations, etc.). Each Planning Team Meeting will be approximately two (2) hours in length, accommodating up to 35 participants, and supported by up to three (3) CONSTANT team members.

City of La Cañada Flintridge
Citywide Evacuation Plan
Response to Request for Proposal

19 Community Engagement
Below, Team CONSTANT details methodologies for the
development and implementation of a robust
community engagement approach to inform the
Citywide Evacuation Plan.

Community Engagement Approach
Before engaging in community engagement activities,
Team CONSTANT will develop a community
engagement approach for review and approval by the
City PM and the Planning Team prior to implementation.

The community engagement approach will define
engagement objectives, identify priority stakeholder
groups to reach, such as those with AFN, outline inclusive engagement methods, establish roles and responsibilities for Team CONSTANT and the City, and confirm
coordination protocols to ensure activities are aligned with City goals, timelines, and community needs. Team
CONSTANT recommends a mix of contractor-led
activities and integration of community engagement for
the Citywide Evacuation Plan into existing City events
and activities (i.e., fairs, markets, neighborhood
association meetings, outreach to senior centers, etc.).

Below, we have detailed key components of the
community engagement approach, including a
community survey, community workshops, community
reviews, and participation in additional meetings and
events.

Community Survey
Team CONSTANT will develop an electronic community
survey to inform the Citywide Evacuation Plan. We see a survey as an opportunity for the Whole Community to
provide information and insight into the plan, allowing for a more comprehensive analysis of the capabilities, resources, and needs of City residents and visitors who could be required to evacuate. The online survey serves two purposes: 1) it provides a mechanism for a wider net of community members to contribute to the Citywide Evacuation Plan who may not be able to attend a community workshop and 2) it allows Team CONSTANT to identify large and sensitive issues that need to be addressed in the Citywide Evacuation Plan or in subsequent community outreach initiatives.

CONSTANT recently conducted surveys to inform the City of Long Beach Mass Evacuation and Shelter-in-Place Plan and the City of Malibu Mass Evacuation Plan. Long Beach’s community survey was released via City press release, social media, and local news articles in four (4) languages. Community members lacking or having limited access to a computer or smart phone were able to visit any City Public Library locations to access paper copies of the survey or complete it online.

CONSTANT CONDUCTED

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

FOR THE CITY OF MALIBU
CONSTANT currently has an
open community survey for
the City of Malibu Mass
Evacuation Plan. The survey
spans questions for
demographic information,
personal experience with
emergencies, evacuation
transportation and routes,
communication and
information, and
community needs and
support. Information from
the survey will be directly
implemented within the
Evacuation Plan and
ongoing community
engagement strategies
undertaken by the City of
Malibu.

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Citywide Evacuation Plan
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20 Sample questions from each survey include the following. These are grouped by distinct topics within the survey.
• How do you expect to receive evacuation information?
• What information would you like the City to communicate more clearly during evacuations?
• Which considerations would influence your decision to evacuate during an emergency?
• Which route(s) would you most likely use to leave the City of La Cañada Flintridge during an evacuation?
• In an evacuation, how do you plan to travel?
• During an evacuation, how well do you think the City of La Cañada Flintridge’s transportation options would meet the needs of people with disabilities, older adults, or others with AFN (such as limited mobility, lack of transportation, nonEnglish speaking, or those needing medical equipment)? • Do you have a personal/family evacuation plan in case of emergencies? • What additional resources would help you better prepare for an evacuation? • Would you participate in preparedness events facilitated by the City and/or its partners (workshops, drills, online sessions)?
• Are there community groups, homeowners’ associations, or organizations that you think should be more involved in evacuation planning? Working in close collaboration with the City PM, Team CONSTANT will release the survey to the public and provide the Planning Team with the survey results. The results can be assessed against several key markers to provide a more robust analysis of evacuation capabilities and gaps to be bridged in the Mass Evacuation Plan.

Community Workshops
In addition to the survey, Team CONSTANT will gather information to inform the Citywide Evacuation Plan through up to three (3) community workshops held in a mix of in-person and virtual formats. The goal of the workshops would be to provide an opportunity for attendees to provide feedback reflective of personal and community experiences, to socialize Citywide Evacuation Plan concepts to those who may have evacuated previously or could evacuate in the future, and to identify necessary plan enhancements.

The workshops will be approximately two (2) hours in length, and participants will include community members, including those experiencing an AFN, government agencies, businesses, and community-based, faith-based, and advocacy organizations. Team CONSTANT recommends that the community workshops are capped at up to 100 participants per session to allow for active participation. Should anticipated participation exceed this figure due to high community interest and demand, Team CONSTANT can conduct additional sessions to accommodate need, including using alternative formats such as a virtual workshop.

To support successful workshop conduct, Team CONSTANT will design supporting materials including a presentation, facilitator guide, notetaking guide, and handouts.

These materials will be provided to the City PM for approval prior to distribution and

City of La Cañada Flintridge
Citywide Evacuation Plan
Response to Request for Proposal
21 conduct and printed for participants. Team CONSTANT’s staffing will include up to three (3) staff members
depending on registration.

CONSTANT has experience organizing and facilitating
workshops for multiple plan development projects,
including AARs, EOPs and annexes, LHMPs, and
community assessments. Many of these community
workshops have been crafted to fully integrate Whole
Community and AFN considerations, including the
provision of translated materials, live interpretation
services, and the distribution of incentives and stipends to encourage participation amidst competing priorities.

CONSTANT lauds these as best practices and seeks to
integrate these considerations within our methodologies whenever possible. For this effort, Team CONSTANT does
not incorporate these within our current cost proposal
but can provide an additional quote for services as
desired or work with existing City resources to coordinate these services.

On the logistics front, Team CONSTANT will provide use of Eventbrite to coordinate workshop registration, provide materials to market participation (i.e., newsletter writeups, social media graphics, flyers, etc.), and/or assign a staff member to monitor registration and answer
questions. We strongly encourage the City to support
and encourage attendance, particularly by the AFN
community, to ensure diverse perspectives are captured
and core community needs and challenges are
addressed within the plan.

Community Reviews
Team CONSTANT recommends that, following the
approval of the initial draft by the City, the Citywide Evacuation Plan is made available to the public for
feedback. This will allow residents to have a voice in their community’s disaster planning. Team CONSTANT will
support provision of a form submission or specialized
email inbox for residents to provide comments. Team CONSTANT also recommends working with community-based organizations and community/senior centers to provide opportunities for feedback from those lacking regular access to the internet.

Participation in Additional Meetings
Team CONSTANT is prepared to provide technical assistance or participation in additional public meetings as requested by the City. This may include support for engagement with City advisory bodies and commissions and/or preparation of presentation materials and exhibits.

CONSTANT CONDUCTED

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

FOR THE CITY OF

INGLEWOOD
As part of an EOP update,
CONSTANT recently
facilitated four (4)
engaging community town
hall sessions for the City of
Inglewood. The townhalls
were leveraged to:
• Share how the City of
Inglewood prepares
for emergencies and
by updating the City’s
EOP.
• Gather valuable input
from the whole
community.
• Strengthen and
Prepare Together:

Ensuring the EOP
reflects the diverse
needs of the
community and
strengthens
collaboration with key
partners in disaster
response and
recovery.

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22 City Council Coordination
As the Citywide Evacuation Plan is developed and finalized, Team CONSTANT will develop PowerPoint presentations and co-facilitate presentations to the City Council with the City PM as directed. CONSTANT can provide local support from Mona Bontty for in-person delivery at no-cost to the City. Presentations will highlight the Citywide Evacuation Plan development process, summarize plan content, provide implications for next steps, and offer an opportunity for questions and answers.

The goal of each presentation will be to ensure that there is City-wide cohesion and understanding on the magnitude and effects of the Citywide Evacuation Plan and that the plan is ultimately appropriately socialized through multiple channels to inform future preparedness efforts. Team CONSTANT will work with the City PM to solidify presentation contents prior to finalization and will only participate in City Council activities at the direction of City staff, maintaining a professional and neutral matter.

Citywide Evacuation Plan Development
Developing a Citywide Evacuation Plan follows a logical sequence of steps that defines the City’s needs, analyzes regulatory requirements and guidance, and creates the necessary documentation to support execution of the evacuation plan during incidents.

Deliverable refinement will occur through analysis, review, and revision. To develop the Citywide Evacuation Plan, Team CONSTANT team proposes a stepwise approach that involves ongoing research and analysis, stakeholder engagement, and iterative deliverable production. Below, we detail our iterative drafting process followed by key plan components.

Table of Contents and Annotated Outline
Team CONSTANT will develop a table of contents and outline for the Citywide Evacuation Plan and provide it to the City PM and Planning Team for review and approval. The document will provide a detailed description of the Citywide Evacuation Plan’s design and structure. A feedback matrix will accompany the table of contents and expanded outline to allow for tracking of staff input. After a period of review, we will consolidate inputs, resolve conflicts with the City PM, and provide a final table of contents and an expanded outline. This will serve as a critical juncture to ensure that the plan reflects •Stakeholder
Engagement
•City PM Review
•Planning Team
Review
TOC / Outline
•City PM Review
•Planning Team
Review
Initial Draft •City PM Review
•Planning Team
Review
Second Draft
•City PM Review
•Planning Team
Review
•Community
Review
Final Draft
Figure 11. Team CONSTANT uses an iterative drafting process to develop and refine the Citywide Evacuation Plan.

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23 content proposed during the Planning Team Meetings, bridges identified gaps, and reflects operations during the Eaton Fire.

Team CONSTANT provides a sample table of contents for the Citywide Evacuation Plan.

It is informed by other evacuation plans designed for California jurisdictions and the City’s RFP. Elements can be modified at the City’s discretion to align with plan vision. • Executive Summary: Summary of the Evacuation Plan, authority and governance under Unified Command, plan development, and approval and implementation. • Records of Revision and Distribution.
• Introduction: Purpose and objectives, scope, assumptions, legal authorities, evacuation concepts and best practices consistent with the California Standard Statewide Evacuation Terminology, and alignment to existing City plans. • Community and Hazard Overview: Whole Community principles, demographic, geographic, risk, and hazard profiles specific to the City, and transportation infrastructure. Identify evacuee categories and planning and transportation considerations for each (i.e., general population, critical transportation need evacuees, individuals with AFN including seniors, patient evacuees, animal evacuees, students, etc.). Fully integrate AFN within the plan. • Evacuation Routes and Zones: Designation of evacuation zones and routes and alignment with the Los Angeles County “Know Your Zone” framework, Genasys Protect, and clear, location-based names. For each zone, describe evacuation routes to include map(s), description of the zone including important features, operational characteristics, and essential facilities, and an evacuation strategy for traffic flow, control, and evacuation zone assembly points. Detail evacuation traffic management plans for scalable options based on incident conditions, roadway capacity, constraints, and choke points, route availability, land use designations, and resource/operational constraints as informed by the Hazard and Evacuation Analysis. Confirm traffic control authority and limitations. Detail impacts of the City’s Red Flag No Parking Program.
• Roles and Responsibilities of Agencies: General roles and responsibilities of local, state, federal, private, and non-profit agencies during a City evacuation based on a Unified Command structure. Designation of the lead agency and supporting agency roles and responsibilities.
• Evacuation Authority, Warnings, and Orders: Authority to order an evacuation and evacuation advisory/order definitions.
• Concept of Operations: Detail triggers for evacuation phases, including timing, modes, activities, and supporting information.
− The Concept of Operations will be flexible to account for each evacuation event presenting unique issues. Thus, while the Plan will outline mechanisms for evacuation, shelter-in-place, and re-entry/repopulation procedures, including sequence, reception, and alerts/public information, operations will be designed to be scalable and flexible for all hazards. The framework of the Plan will follow a phased approach consistent with SEMS and reflect Unified Command principles.

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24 • Public Communications and Implementation Framework: Outline of the City’s Alerting Policy and evacuation message development best practices. Connect to the City’s Communications and Alert and Warning protocols, including use of notification systems and communication procedures between public safety agencies and Public Information Officers (PIOs). Include evacuation sample alerts, social media posts, and press releases. Include concepts from CONSTANT’s Accessible Social Media Guidance published through Cal OES OAFN and alignment with legislative requirements for accessible messaging and communication.
• Plan Development and Maintenance: Outline how the plan will remain current, including regular reviews, public and partner engagement, triggers from incidents, exercises, or changes in regulation or infrastructure. • Training and Exercises: Describe how evacuation procedures can be integrated within training and exercise efforts aligned with the City’s Integrated Preparedness Plan (if available).
• Appendix:
− Hazard and Evacuation Analysis: Supporting data to support the identification of evacuation routes and zones based on existing and future conditions, GIS mapping, and evacuation capacity assessments. − Implementation and Maintenance Roadmap: Immediate and long-term actions to support implementation of the Citywide Evacuation Plan. − Signage/Tools: EOC Job Action Sheets, organization charts, checklists, and other key tools to support the City’s role in evacuation. − Contact List: Key contact information to support rapid notification and coordination with City staff and partner agencies.
− Public Messaging Templates: Example messaging templates for key hazards. − Advanced Personal Preparedness for Individuals with AFN: Building from CONSTANT’s authorship of Cal OES’s AFN Evacuation Guide, incorporate considerations that individuals can use to increase preparedness before, during, and after disasters.
− Animal Evacuation: Guidance for the evacuation and sheltering of household pets, service animals, livestock, and large animals during evacuations within the City.

Initial Draft
Based on the outcomes of Planning Team Meetings, community engagement, and the mutually agreed upon table of contents and expanded outline, Team CONSTANT will develop a draft of the Citywide Evacuation Plan. The plan will be provided to the City PM and the Planning Team for review and comment. Comments received by each stakeholder will be logged into a comment matrix for Team CONSTANT to be able to provide the resolution of stakeholder input. The draft will mark a critical juncture in the Citywide Evacuation Plan development process to ensure that the contents of the plan align with stakeholder expectations, best practices, and discussions.

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25 Second Draft
Based on requested edits during the initial drafting stage, Team CONSTANT will develop a second draft of the
Citywide Evacuation Plan. This draft will be designed as a 70% solution that is ready for public feedback. Prior to public distribution, the plan will again be provided to the City PM and the Planning Team for review and comment
during the community review period. Comments
received by each Planning Team stakeholder and/or
community member will be logged into a comment
matrix for Team CONSTANT to be able to provide the
resolution of stakeholder input.

Final Draft
Following receipt of feedback by the Planning Team and
the broader community, we will continue to revise and
finalize the Citywide Evacuation Plan. In addition to plan content, the final draft will also include figures, tables, graphics, and other materials and will be professionally formatted and remediated for 508 compliance to
support public distribution. We will submit a final copy of the Citywide Evacuation Plan in Word and PDF formats
for final approval by the City prior to presentation at a City Council Meeting.

Executive Summary
As part of the Citywide Evacuation Plan, Team
CONSTANT will develop an Executive Summary that can
be used to summarize the plan for the community
and/or City executive leadership.

Implementation and Maintenance Roadmap
Team CONSTANT will also author an Implementation and
Maintenance Roadmap to identify how the
development of the plan may still stipulate future
emergency management needs, including ongoing
plan or policies, standard operating procedures,
training, exercises, and community and stakeholder
engagement. This report will position the City to continue to grow from and maintain progress made during this
planning process, including regular reviews and updates of the Citywide Evacuation Plan.

CONSTANT IS AUTHORING

AN EVACUATION PLAN FOR
THE CITY OF SAN JOSÉ
CONSTANT is developing
an Evacuation Response
Plan for the City of San
José. The City’s geographic
size, population density,
and diverse built
environment create
evacuation challenges that
differ from many
jurisdictions. The City
includes dense urban
neighborhoods, suburban
communities, major
employment centers,
critical infrastructure
corridors, and areas of
wildland-urban interface
(WUI) along the eastern
and southern foothills.

These varied environments
influence evacuation
decision-making,
evacuation clearance
times, transportation
capacity, and the ability of
residents and visitors to
safely move away from
hazardous areas during
emergencies.

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26 Hazard and Evacuation Analysis
The City of La Cañada Flintridge Citywide Evacuation Plan requires a robust understanding of how the transportation network will perform under emergency conditions. Team CONSTANT’s approach to crafting this plan element combines traffic modeling with GIS-based analysis to evaluate evacuation feasibility, clearance times, and system performance, and to identify potential bottlenecks and mitigation strategies.

Hazard Scenarios and Analysis Framework
Team CONSTANT will begin by working with the City and project team to define up to four (4) emergency scenarios that reflect the most significant risks to the community, including wildfire, earthquake, and other hazards of interest, consistent with the hazard identification and risk assessment framework documented in the LHMP. These scenarios will incorporate consideration of evacuation timing, sequencing, and phasing, including variations in warning time, hazard progression, and population response based on the context of the hazard.

The process of defining the scenarios will be to establish: (1) the extent of the analysis; (2) the “external gateways” for the study area, defined on key roadways that establish the geographic limits of evacuation; (3) the geographic unit for analysis, such as Transportation Analysis Zones, Census Block Groups, or the City’s Genasys Zones to align evacuation modeling with operational alerting and evacuation management protocols; and (4) the hazard that will serve as the disrupting feature for the roadway network.

Existing and Future Conditions GIS Mapping
Existing and future conditions of the study area and transportation network will be reviewed, including:
• Current population and employment information (from the SCAG Travel Demand Model, the U.S. Census, Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD), and the City).
• Future population and employment information reflecting full buildout of the General Plan.
• Household vehicle ownership and employment mode share (from the U.S.

Census).
• Road segment carrying capacity (vehicles per lane per hour) (from the SCAG TDM and the City, and OpenStreetMap if necessary).
• Intersection traffic controls (from the City).
• Potential network vulnerabilities.
• Proximity to WUI areas that may be critical points of ingress for firefighters. • On-street parking policies, including the Red Flag Warning Program. • Changes to the roadway network resulting from the implementation of future capital improvement projects along the same timeline as the land use change evaluated in the future scenarios.
• Special generators that have AFN populations, such as hospitals, residential care facilities, group living quarters, and residential schools.

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27 Team CONSTANT will produce maps to summarize the existing and future conditions, including any variations that will be assumed as part of the hazard scenario (such as impassable roadway segments or intersection control variation).

Evacuation Capacity Assessment
Team CONSTANT will evaluate the capacity, safety, and viability of evacuation routes under the four (4) defined hazard scenarios, incorporating both current conditions and planned land use consistent with General Plan buildout and Safety Element policy direction. This will result in a set of four (4) Existing Conditions analysis scenarios and four (4) Future Buildout analysis scenarios.

This analysis will:
• Estimate clearance times for each analysis scenario based on roadway capacity and evacuation demand using the City’s Genasys Zones.
• Evaluate roadway capacity, constraints, and choke points under varying hazard conditions.
• Identify critical locations within the study area, including constrained roadway segments, intersections, and access-limited areas.
• Assess the feasibility of routes and evaluate alternate routing strategies. • Evaluate evacuation timing, sequencing, and phased evacuation strategies based on hazard progression and network performance.

Team CONSTANT proposes two (2) options for the Evacuation Capacity Assessment for the City’s consideration. Our current price proposal accounts for option 1.

Option 1: Conduct a static assessment to determine evacuation demand during Existing and Future Buildout conditions, and compare to roadway capacities at key points within the study area to identify possible bottlenecks and capacity constraints. We will use Fehr & Peers’ GIS tool ResilientRoutes to understand the routing implications of roadway disruptions based on travel paths from population centroids to external gateways during an evacuation.

The analysis will also consider the specific characteristics that constrain or affect evacuation performance, including:
• The City’s Red Flag No Parking Program and how temporary parking restrictions may affect roadway clearance, emergency access, evacuation capacity, and implementation during evacuation events.
• Areas which have only one access/egress route, creating a more risk-prone context for both evacuation and ingress of first responders. • The presence of Interstate 210, including how freeway conditions, incidents, or closures influence evacuation routes, timing, and regional coordination. • Local roadway characteristics, including narrow streets, limited access points, hillside conditions, and overall network connectivity.
• Areas with concentrations of schools and other sensitive uses, including planning considerations for evacuations occurring during school hours and coordination with designated evacuation sites.

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28 Option 2: Conduct a dynamic assessment which, in addition to the static assessment to produce evacuation time estimates for Existing and Future Buildout scenarios, reflects the temporal interactions between evacuation demand, background travel, and the roadway network as an evacuation progresses. The same scenarios as described above will be evaluated using a dynamic traffic assignment tool developed by Fehr & Peers, EvacInsight, which will be customized to the hazards and local conditions of the City. This tool builds off the SCAG Travel Demand Model to reflect traffic re-routing decisions every 15 minutes based on the accumulation of vehicle traffic and changes to the travel times between the origins and external gateways. This reflects more granular conditions and produces nuanced insights as to the effects of intersection controls, evacuation order timing and zone sequencing, and redundant roadway networks.

For each scenario, our dynamic analysis will include:
• Evacuation Population: We will estimate the number of people that would need to evacuate depending on the evacuation time window. Daytime evacuation would include commercial employees as well as residents. Population characteristics such as vehicle ownership, household size, and presence of populations that may need special attention for evacuation, such as seniors or people with disabilities, will also be taken into account. The evacuating population may include the entire City plus “shadow evacuation zones” or may include a subset of the City plus “shadow evacuation zones” based on the specifics of the hazard
• Identification of Evacuation Gateways or Centers: We will incorporate the locations of evacuation gateways or evacuation centers that would be used in the event of an evacuation, within or outside the City boundary, to inform the directionality of the evacuation.
• Evacuation Route Capacity: We will calibrate the number of lanes used on segments serving as key evacuation routes, considering the need to maintain access for emergency responders to the evacuating area and/or wildland area. • Evacuation Route Demand: We will identify demand for use of the key routes, loading the population onto the network based on connectivity and directionality of the evacuation for each hazard scenario. • Volume/Capacity Ratios: We will evaluate each and estimate the ratios of roadway capacity to evacuation demand.
• Evacuation Time Estimates: We will derive an evacuation time estimate based on a complete evacuation for each scenario, which may include 100% of the evacuating population or some percentage lower than 100% if community engagement indicates a likelihood that some people will choose to “stay and defend”.

Note, use of either or both of Fehr & Peers’ tools (ResilientRoutes or EvacInsights) will not preclude the City from accessing, understanding, or reusing the deliverables from this analysis.

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29 Special Populations and Access Considerations
In conjunction with the fact that individuals with AFN are disproportionately impacted by disasters, lack of
integrated planning creates gaps, which have
historically led to measurable loss of life and increased human suffering among the whole community. As a
result, California has passed AFN legislation, including AB 2311, AB 477, AB 2645, AB 2386, and AB 2968,
requiring counties to integrate AFN-related
considerations throughout an EOP or annex. Though
cities are not required to comply directly with the AFN County-level legislation, these impose best practices for evacuation planning, including:
• Integrating AFN representatives in the
development of evacuation and transportation
plans.
• Having agreements (MOUs, MOAs, etc.) with
accessible transportation providers to evacuate
individuals with AFN during disasters and with
surrounding jurisdictions to access additional
accessible transportation resources nearby.
• Detailing the process individuals with AFN will
follow to secure accessible transportation.
• Describing how culturally diverse communities
are served by emergency evacuation.

Furthermore, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Title II brings additional implications for compliance with facets for evacuation, including:
• Integrating accessibility features for emergency
alert systems and contracts and policies
governing accessible emergency notifications.
• Implementing protocols for accessible
emergency press conferences, public briefings,
and broadcasts.
• Detailing procedures for operating accessible evacuation transport, emergency shelters, and emergency intake, including accommodation of persons with mobility, sensory, cognitive, or psychiatric disabilities.

Within the Citywide Evacuation Plan, Team CONSTANT will integrate access considerations for the AFN community in collaboration with the City PM and Planning Team in alignment with the above legislation and best practices from the Cal OES Integrated Evacuation Planning for Jurisdictions and Individuals with AFN guide. City AFN representatives or partners, including representation from schools, care facilities, older adults, persons with disabilities, and more will be fully engaged during the Citywide Evacuation Plan development process, including Planning Team Meetings and

CONSTANT DEVELOPED

THE CAL OES INTEGRATED

EVACUATION GUIDE
CONSTANT authored the
Integrated Evacuation
Planning for Jurisdictions
and Individuals with AFN for
Cal OES. We continue to be
engaged by Cal OES OAFN
to author AFN-related
guides for emergency
management concepts
such as an AFN Advisory
Committee, large venue
safety, accessible social
media communication,
and more. We have a
tenured relationship with
the Cal OES OAFN Chief,
Vance Taylor, that ensures
our current alignment to
AFN integration best
practices and emerging
trends.

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30 community engagement. It is imperative that these representatives are not just engaged for review and comment on the draft Citywide Evacuation Plan once drafted.

Collaboration throughout the entire planning process will yield better outcomes for the Whole Community, build relationships between emergency managers and the community, advance and promote greater personal preparedness, and increase understanding of the City’s jurisdictional dynamics and demographics.

Evacuation Strategy and Procedures
As detailed in Table of Contents and Annotated Outline, the Citywide Evacuation Plan will include the development of a comprehensive strategy and procedures in the concept of operations. This will include phased or zone-based evacuation approaches, traffic control and routing concepts aligned with both findings from the Hazard and Evacuation Analysis and County frameworks, shelter-in-place versus evacuation decision frameworks under various hazards, and integration of roles and responsibilities within a concept of operations for the City’s integration with law enforcement, fire, and incident command operations. The Citywide Evacuation Plan will ultimately present an overall framework for coordinating evacuation operations and a phased timing of evacuation activities. The concept of operations will be flexible to provide the Incident Commander, Law Enforcement, and supporting department/agencies protective action options to apply once the situation has been assessed. Evacuation operations for the City will follow a phased approach consistent with SEMS.

Public Communications and Implementation Framework
The Citywide Evacuation Plan will also include a public communications and implementation framework that integrates evacuation guidance and the City’s current alert and communication systems, including AlertLCF. It is the City’s responsibility to implement effective public information whilst operational command for evacuations remains under a Unified Command structure led by Los Angeles County agencies. As such, clear roles and responsibilities for City implementation of public information activities and coordination with City staff and partners for consistent and redundant alerts and messaging will be detailed in the Citywide Evacuation Plan. Likewise, accessibility requirements and best practices as detailed in Special Populations and Access Populations should be integrated within the City’s public communications and implementation framework and subsequent SOPs.

During the Eaton Fire, the City successfully provided frequent and multi-modal communications and delivered critical evacuation notifications, and these best practices can be codified within the Citywide Evacuation Plan. However, opportunities emerged to improve message clarity, implement pre-incident public education, establish earlier information centralization, incorporate non-digital pathways and alternatives during outages, and reduce confusion about jurisdictional responsibilities that can be bridged within the updated Citywide Evacuation Plan where appropriate.

At present, the City is clarifying the specific roles of its alert systems and developing an emergency web hub that will be updated the moment an incident begins.

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31 Deliverables
Team CONSTANT will develop a comprehensive Citywide Evacuation Plan. Deliverables to support the development, review, and implementation of the Citywide Evacuation Plan will include the following. We understand that all deliverables are subject to review and approval by the City and shall be revised as necessary to address City comments.

Project Management and Coordination
• Provide the PMP/Project Work Plan and QAQC Plan for City approval. Manage the project timeline.
• Host a virtual Project Kickoff Meeting. Provide attendee list, meeting agenda, presentation, and post-meeting minutes to structure and document the meeting. • Implement project management systems to support project conduct, including Unanet, SharePoint, and virtual meeting tools.
• Conduct virtual bi-weekly review meetings with the City PM. Develop monthly written project status reports for dissemination during or following the meetings.

Review of Existing Conditions and Documents
• Review local, regional, state, federal, and best practice documentation that should align with and/or inform the Citywide Evacuation Plan.

Community Engagement and External Agency Coordination
• Convene a Planning Team comprised of internal and external stakeholders and conduct a series of four (4) virtual Planning Team Meetings. • Develop a community engagement approach for review and approval by the City PM.
• Craft and disseminate a community survey.
• Organize and facilitate up to three (3) community workshops held in a mix of virtual and in-person formats.
• Facilitate a community review process of the draft Citywide Evacuation Plan. • Provide technical assistance for or participate in additional meetings with City advisory bodies and commissions as requested by the City. • Co-facilitate up to two (2) presentations to the City Council.

Citywide Evacuation Plan Development
• Iteratively develop the Citywide Evacuation Plan, including the table of contents/annotated outline, initial draft suitable for Planning Team review, second draft suitable for Planning Team and community review, and final draft suitable for City Council adoption and long-term use. The final draft will also be inclusive of visual materials, including evacuation routes and zones, for operational and community usage.
• Provide an Executive Summary of the Citywide Evacuation Plan suitable for decision-maker and community review.
• Craft an Implementation and Maintenance Roadmap to promote plan socialization and future refinement.

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32 Hazard and Evacuation Analysis
• Provide GIS layers of primary and contingency evacuation routes, reflecting local roadway conditions, limited access points, and hillside network constraints, and describing analytical models, tools, data sources, and assumptions applied to the City’s conditions.
• Summarize key findings that informed current evacuation recommendations and system vulnerabilities and opportunities for improvement of long-term resiliency across the City’s evacuation network. Identify constraints, sensitivities, and areas of uncertainty.
• Estimate clearance times for full and partial evacuations under defined emergency scenarios, whether developed through static comparison of evacuation demand to roadway capacity as currently budgeted, or through dynamic analysis using a meso-scale simulation model EvacInsights. • Identify the most constrained locations within the evacuation network, including roadway segments and intersections that present operational challenges under emergency conditions.
• Contribute these analysis results and narrative discussion to accompany tables and maps for inclusion into the Technical Documentation as an Appendix.

Special Populations and Access Considerations
• Integrate special populations and access considerations within the Citywide Evacuation Plan, including community profile information and planning considerations for persons with AFN.

Evacuation Strategy and Procedures
• Integrate the evacuation strategy and procedures within the Citywide Evacuation Plan, specifically the Concept of Operations, including phased evacuation approaches, traffic control and routing concepts, and integration with law enforcement, fire, and incident command operations.

Public Communications and Implementation Framework
• Integrate the public communications and implementation framework within the Citywide Evacuation Plan, include public facing evacuation guidance and integration with the City’s alerting and communications systems.

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33 Proposed Project Schedule
Team CONSTANT details a proposed project schedule between May 6, 2026 and December 31, 2026, accounting for an eight (8) month period of performance. We believe that this timeline allows for thorough stakeholder and community engagement to inform the Citywide Evacuation Plan as well as ample time for reviews of plan drafts by the City and its partners. Adherence to the project timeline is a metric that will be continuously tracked by our team, and we can provide an alternative timeline that is aligned with the City’s vision as requested.

In the below timeline, light blue bars show progress towards a task. Red Xs represent draft deliverables or material development and black Xs represent deliverable completion or event conduct.

Figure 12. Team CONSTANT proposes an eight (8) month period of performance. 4 11 18 25 1 8 15 22 29 6 13 20 27 3 10 17 24 31 7 14 21 28 5 12 19 26 2 9 16 23 30 7 14 21 28 Project Management and Coordination
Project Management Systems X
Project Kickoff Meeting X
PMP and QAQC Plan X X
Bi-Weekly Project Team Meetings X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X Project Status Reports X X X X X X X X
Review of Existing Conditions and Documents
Documentation Review X
Community Engagement and External Agency Coordination
Convene Planning Team X
Planning Team Meeting #1 X
Planning Team Meeting #2 X
Planning Team Meeting #3 X
Planning Team Meeting #4 X
Community Engagement Approach X
Community Survey X X
Community Workshops X
Community Reviews
City Council Meeting X
Hazard and Evacuation Analysis
Hazard Scenarios and Analysis Framework X
Existing and Future Conditions GIS Mapping X
Evacuation Capacity Assessment (Static) X
Citywide Evacuation Plan Development*
Table of Contents and Outline X
Planning Team Review
Initial Draft X
Planning Team Review
Second Draft X
Planning Team Review
Final Draft X
*Special Populations and Access Considerations, Evacuation Strategy and Procedures, and Public Communications and Implementation Framework to be developed as part of the overall plan drafting process.

Month/
Week Beginning
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34 Key milestones include:

Table 2. Team CONSTANT details key milestones aligning to the overall period of performance.

Deliverable/Meeting Key Milestones
Project Kickoff Meeting • Conducted by May 15, 2026.

Table of Contents/Outline and
Review and Comment Period
• Table of Contents/Outline provided by June 26, 2026.
• Review and comment period between June 29, 2026 and July 10, 2026.

Initial Citywide Evacuation Plan Draft
and Review and Comment Period
• Initial Draft provided by August 7, 2026.
• Review and comment period between August 10, 2026 and August 21, 2026.

Second Citywide Evacuation Plan Draft
and Review and Comment Period
• Second Draft provided by September 18, 2026.
• Review and comment period between September 21, 2026 and October 2, 2026.

Final Citywide Evacuation Plan Delivery • Final Draft provided by December 4, 2026.

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35 Key Personnel, Resumes, and Rates
Key Personnel
Team CONSTANT is excited to offer an overview of our team members who are exceptionally qualified to craft the City of La Cañada Flintridge’s Citywide Evacuation Plan. Our key team members include Executive Sponsor Mona Bontty, MBA, MHRM, Project Manager Dan Smith, MPS, Deputy Project Manager Alyssa Antczak, CEM, MS, Subject Matter Expert (SME) Chelsea Richer, MURP, AICP, and Project Support Mary Rose Fissinger, MS, and Griffin Kantz, MS, AICP. Non-key team members who will be engaged to support from Team CONSTANT include Trey Brooke, Simon Han, and Trevor Smith. They will be supported with services for administration, notetaking, graphics, and research.

Roles, Responsibilities, Experience, and Qualifications Team CONSTANT provides a summary table of our team members’ roles, responsibilities, experience, and qualifications. Resumes are provided in the Appendix for key staff.

Our team combines emergency management, public safety, and evacuation modeling expertise, direct experience with the City of La Cañada Flintridge’s Eaton Fire AAR/IP or CAAP, and proven performance history on similar City evacuation plans and analyses across Southern California. This provides a foundation of local knowledge, enhances credibility with stakeholders and decision-makers, and reduces risk.

Figure 13. Team CONSTANT presents a highly experienced team to develop the Citywide Evacuation Plan.

Alyssa Antczak, CEM, MS
Deputy Project Manager
Dan Smith, MPS
Project Manager
Mona Bontty, MBA, MHRM
Executive Sponsor
Chelsea Richer, MURP, AICP
Mary Rose Fissinger, MS
Griffin Kantz, MS, AICP
Trey Brooke (non-key)
Simon Han (non-key)
Trevor Smith (non-key)
Subject Matter Experts / Project Support

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36 Table 3. Team CONSTANT’s team members bring the following key qualifications, training, and experience coupled with appropriate roles and responsibilities.

Team Member Roles and Responsibilities Qualifications, Training, and Experience Mona Bontty,

MBA, MHRM
Executive
Sponsor
• Provide executive level
oversight for contract
negotiation and project
management.
• Provide technical and
quality reviews for all
deliverables prior to
dissemination to the City.
• Contribute to the
Citywide Evacuation Plan
as a Support Writer.
• Support data collection,
including stakeholder and
community engagement.
• 30+ years of experience in government
and emergency management.
• Leading role for the City’s Eaton Fire
AAR/IP, bringing understanding of the
City’s operations and partnerships.
• Expertise in evacuation plans and
community engagement.
• Response to 55+ disasters throughout
California as former Southern Cal OES
Regional Administrator.
• Dual master’s degrees.
• Extensive training in California
emergency response systems.
• Los Angeles County resident.

Dan Smith, MPS
Project Manager
• Lead the project
management function,
including serving as the
City’s primary point of
contact, conducting
check-in meetings, and
authoring status reports.
• Lead the authorship of the
Citywide Evacuation Plan.
• Support documentation
review and community
and stakeholder
engagement.
• Assign CONSTANT team
members to tasks.
• 10+ years of experience in emergency
management.
• Project Manager for the City’s Eaton
Fire AAR/IP, bringing understanding of
the City’s operations and partnerships.
• Proven project manager for City-level
evacuation plans for the cities of
Ventura, Long Beach, and Malibu.
• Local government experience with the
City of Pittsburgh, PA and Horry County,
SC, including hurricane evacuation
operations.
• Master’s degree in emergency
management.

Alyssa Antczak,

CEM, MS
Deputy Project
Manager
• Support the project
management function by
attending check-in
meetings and recording
meeting minutes.
• Lead documentation
review, community
engagement approach
development, and
execution of community
engagement activities.
• Support the authorship of
the Citywide Evacuation
Plan.
• Significant real-world and exercise AAR
experience in California.
• Deputy Project Manager for the City’s
Eaton Fire AAR/IP, bringing
understanding of the City’s operations
and partnerships.
• Leading role in the City of Long Beach
Evacuation and Shelter-in-Place Plan
and City of Malibu Evacuation Plan.
• Certified Emergency Manager.
• Master’s degree in emergency
management.

Chelsea Richer,

MURP, AICP
• Provide overall project
oversight for the Fehr &
Peers team, ensuring
• 15 years of experience in transportation
planning, focusing on evacuation
analysis, first/last mile planning,

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37 Team Member Roles and Responsibilities Qualifications, Training, and Experience Subject Matter
Expert
alignment with client
goals, scope, and
schedule.
• Manage quality
assurance and review of
all deliverables, including
technical memoranda,
GIS outputs, and
modeling results.
• Lead interpretation of
analysis results including
development of
recommendations.
multimodal safety, active transportation
conceptual design, and sustainable
mobility.
• Experience with evacuation analysis
projects across Southern California.
• Master’s degree in Urban & Regional
Planning.
• Certified through the American Institute
of Certified Planners (027878).

Mary Rose
Fissinger, MS
Project Support
• Serve as the main point of
contact for Fehr & Peers.
• Lead delegation of
analysis tasks to relevant
subject matter experts as
appropriate.
• Review all deliverables
and provide oversight
and conformance to the
overall project work plan.
• 9+ years of experience in transportation
planning, specializing in data science,
transportation analysis, and travel
demand modeling.
• Experience with travel demand modeling
for the City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, and LA Metro.
• Dual master’s degrees in Transportation
and Civil Systems Engineering.

Griffin Kantz, MS,
AICP
Project Support
• Serve as a Technical
Expert for Fehr & Peers.
• Lead the development of
the existing conditions
analysis and static
analysis.
• 6+ years of experience in transportation
planning, specializing in travel demand
modeling and data science.
• Experience with evacuation analysis
projects across Southern California.
• Master’s degree in City Planning.
• Certified through the American Institute
of Certified Planners (37502).

Trey Brooke
Project Support
• Provide support, including
plan writing and
stakeholder and
community engagement,
as instructed by the
Project Manager.
• 22+ years of experience in Emergency
Management.
• Supporting role for CONSTANT’s current
work on the City of San José
Evacuation Plan and San Mateo
County Evacuation Plan.
• Evacuation and Shelter-in-Place
planning and exercise experience with
utilities and healthcare systems.

Simon Han
Project Support
• Provide support, including
plan writing and technical
analysis, as instructed by
the Project Manager.
• 2+ years of experience in transportation
modeling.
• Master’s degree in Urban and Regional
Planning from UCLA.

Trevor Smith
Project Support
• Provide support, including
plan writing and technical
analysis, as instructed by
the Project Manager.
• 10+ years of experience.
• Significant budget, project, and scope
management expertise.

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38 Rate Sheet
Team CONSTANT provides hourly rates for each team member. Administrative costs are built within these hourly rates, and other direct costs (ODCs) for travel and support are detailed in the Proposed Budget.

Table 4. Team CONSTANT details hourly rates for each team member.

Team Member Hourly Rate
Mona Bontty, MBA, MHRM
Executive Sponsor
$235.51
Dan Smith, MPS
Project Manager
$142.22
Alyssa Antczak, CEM, MS
Deputy Project Manager
$142.22
Chelsea Richer, MURP, AICP
Subject Matter Expert
$330.00
Mary Rose Fissinger, MS
Project Support
$258.50
Griffin Kantz, MS, AICP
Project Support
$225.50
Trey Brooke
Project Support
$122.40
Simon Han
Project Support
$192.50
Trevor Smith
Project Support
$181.50

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39 Proposed Budget
Assumptions
In addition to those noted in Project Understanding and Approach, Team CONSTANT notes the following assumptions that contribute to our project budget:
• The budget provides for experienced staff who have deep experience writing City-level Evacuation Plans for California jurisdictions, including Malibu, Long Beach, Pasadena, San José, and Ventura.
• As described in Budget Management, Team CONSTANT implements comprehensive cost control practices. This includes development of a WBS, frequent analysis of billed time versus projected time, and ongoing discussions with the City to monitor budget health, identify causes for discrepancies, and remediate challenges.
• It is Team CONSTANT’s understanding that the City prefers Time and Materials (T&M) billing. If possible, Team CONSTANT requests that payment for this work be on a Firm Fixed Price (FFP) basis with a deliverable-based invoicing structure.

Team CONSTANT assumes that it may adjust staffing levels and personnel within the scope of the contracted amount to best accommodate project needs, as permitted by the City. Any substitution will be with a team member of commensurate experience.
• Team CONSTANT’s task-specific assumptions include the following, based on the options detailed in the Technical Proposal. We note that we are amenable to modifications or negotiations sought by the City of La Cañada Flintridge to form a work plan directly aligned to its vision.
− Project Management and Coordination
o Team CONSTANT will implement multiple project management systems to support schedule, budget, resource, and document management. o Team CONSTANT will provide a PMP and QAQC Plan.
o Team CONSTANT will conduct virtual project check-in meetings on a biweekly basis (every other week) and provide monthly written status reports as part of project management support.
o Team CONSTANT will coordinate and facilitate a virtual Project Kickoff Meeting to formally initiate the project.
− Review of Existing Conditions and Documents
o Team CONSTANT will perform a thorough documentation review of local, regional, state, federal, and best practice documentation to inform the Citywide Evacuation Plan.
− Community Engagement and External Agency Coordination o Team CONSTANT will convene a formal Planning Team comprised of multi-agency participants.

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40 o Team CONSTANT will facilitate four (4) virtual Planning Team Meetings to support plan development and refinement, providing a read-ahead agenda, presentation, notetaking guide, and minutes for each two (2) hour meeting.
o Team CONSTANT will develop a community engagement approach for review by the City. We envision community engagement being a coled process, with specific methodologies coordinated by Team CONSTANT specifically for this project and the City’s integration of outreach for this project within existing community events. o Team CONSTANT will develop and distribute a community survey to inform the Citywide Evacuation Plan.
o Team CONSTANT will coordinate and facilitate up to three (3) community workshops held in a mix of in-person and virtual formats.

Workshops will be approximately two (2) hours and capped at 100 participants per session. We assume that the City is responsible for venue rental and refreshments. We have budgeted for minor printing costs.

Team CONSTANT can provide additional quotes for services to enhance the community workshops, including the provision of translated materials, live interpretation services, and the distribution of incentives and stipends to encourage participation amidst competing priorities – these costs are not included within the current budget. o Team CONSTANT is prepared to provide technical assistance for material development or participation in additional public meetings and City Council meetings as requested by the City. For budgeting purposes, we have assumed in-person attendance and technical assistance at two (2) City Council meetings and one (1) additional meeting.
− Citywide Evacuation Plan Development
o Team CONSTANT will iteratively develop the Citywide Evacuation Plan, providing a table of contents/annotated outline, initial draft, second draft, and final draft. The final draft will include an executive summary and implementation and maintenance roadmap. The final Citywide Evacuation Plan will be 508 compliant.
o Team CONSTANT will conduct a thorough hazard and evacuation analysis. Current pricing reflects the static analysis option detailed in Evacuation Capacity Assessment and accounts for the evaluation of capacity, safety, and viability of evacuation routes under four (4) defined hazard scenarios, resulting in four (4) existing conditions and four (4) future buildout analysis scenarios. Fehr & Peers’ GIS tool, ResilientRoutes, will be used to understand routing implications of roadway disruptions. Pricing for the dynamic analysis option can be provided upon request.

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41 Detailed Budget
Team CONSTANT details a budget with cost breakdowns that include hourly rates for all personnel and costs per task by project phase. The Special Populations and Access Considerations, Evacuation Strategy and Procedures, and Public Communications and Implementation Framework elements are included directly in the Citywide Evacuation Plan Development task as core plan areas.

Figure 14. Team CONSTANT details a project budget to align with the scope of work requested by the City Executive
Sponsor
Project
Manager
Deputy
Project
Manager
Project
Support
Project
Support
Project
Support
Project
Support
Project
Support
Subject
Matter
Expert
Mona
Bontty
Dan
Smith
Alyssa
Antczak
Trey
Brooke
Mary Rose
Fissinger
Griffin
Kantz
Simon
Han
Trevor
Smith
Chelsea
Richer
$235.51 $142.22 $142.22 $122.40 $258.50 $225.50 $192.50 $181.50 $330.00 1 Project Management and Coordination 14 50 50 34 24 0 0 14 6 192 $32,405.74 2 Review of Existing Conditions and Documents 2 10 8 10 0 0 0 0 0 30 $4,254.98 3 Community Engagement and External Agency
Coordination 52 35 96 96 12 8 8 6 12 325 $54,122.74
4 Hazard and Evacuation Analysis 0 10 0 0 52 80 136 38 26 342 $74,561.20 5 Citywide Evacuation Plan Development* 44 120 140 120 10 24 36 11 5 510 $80,601.14 Total Labor: 112 225 294 260 98 112 180 69 49 1399 $245,945.80 Other Direct Costs
Travel $3,000.00
Printing $900.00
Total Other Direct Costs: $3,900.00
TOTAL PRICE $249,845.80
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TASKS
TOTAL

HOURS TOTAL COST
No. Description

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42 References and Sample Work
Team CONSTANT provides three (3) references for projects detailed in Firm Qualifications and Experience with Similar Projects. The first two (2) references are for CONSTANT with the third reference for Fehr & Peers. Additional references are available upon request.

Reference #1
Evacuation and Shelter-in-Place Plan – City of Long Beach CONSTANT recently finalized an Evacuation and Shelter-in-Place Plan for the City of Long Beach. The City’s plan identifies evacuation routes, shelter locations, and communications strategies; facilitates re-entry to homes and businesses; and accelerates the transition to recovery in the aftermath of an emergency. The Plan includes consideration of street network capacity, evacuation zones, Whole Community principles, transportation infrastructure, roles and responsibilities, etc. The Evacuation and Shelter-in-Place Plan is publicly available here.

Table 5. CONSTANT supported Long Beach in authoring a Mass Evacuation and Shelter-in-Place Plan.

Reference #2
All-Hazards Evacuation Plan – City of Ventura
CONSTANT supported the development of an All-Hazards Evacuation Plan for the City of Ventura. The Evacuation Plan provides an organized framework for activities involved in coordinating and conducting an evacuation. The Evacuation Plan, available here, is designed to help the City coordinate its response and collaborate with federal, state, and other municipal governments, as well as non-governmental organizations.

Table 6. CONSTANT developed the City of Ventura’s Emergency Evacuation Plan.

Prime Client Reference Project Relevancy
Constant
Associates
Reginald (Reggie) Harrison
Director
Department of Disaster Preparedness and
Emergency Communications
2990 Redondo Avenue
Long Beach, CA 90806
(562) 570-9460
[email protected]
• City Evacuation Plan
• Los Angeles County
• 2025 Wildfire Implications
• Whole Community
Approach
Project Dates
July 2024-
January 2025
Prime Client Reference Project Relevancy
Constant
Associates
Mack Douglass
Emergency Services Manager
City of Ventura Police Department
1425 Dowell Drive
Ventura, CA 93003
(805) 339-4377
[email protected]
• City Evacuation Plan
• California Client
• Whole Community
Approach
Project Dates
June 2023-June
2024

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43 Reference #3
Emergency Evacuation Study – City of Montecito
Fehr & Peers supported the Montecito Fire Department in understanding more about evacuation patterns and outcomes related to wildfire risk. Fehr & Peers deployed our tool, EvacInsights, to run dynamic traffic scenarios in response to input parameters that reflect conditions that the City is interested in testing. EvacInsights produces a variety of metrics related to evacuation outcomes, such as average evacuation times for an area, location of bottlenecks on the network, and number of evacuating vehicles for an area.

Following the analysis, our team developed recommendations to manage the congestion, improve communication with residents, and strategically allocate staff resources during an evacuation. In a second phase of this work, Fehr & Peers tested adjustments to the evacuation zones to help illustrate changes in congestion over the course of the modeled evacuation scenario. The Emergency Evacuation Study from phase 1 of Fehr & Peers’ support is publicly available here.

Table 7. Fehr & Peers led an Emergency Evacuation Study for the City of Montecito Fire Department.

Prime Client Reference Project Relevancy
Fehr & Peers David Neels
Fire Chief
Montecito Fire Department
595 San Ysidro Road
Montecito, CA 93108
(805) 969-7762
[email protected]
• Evacuation Modeling
• Scenario Testing
• California Client
• Use of EvacInsights
Project Dates
May 2021-
February 2024
(two contracts)

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44 Appendix
Resumes
Team CONSTANT provides one (1) page resumes for all key staff detailed in Key Personnel, Resumes, and Rates beginning on the following page. Additional information for key and non-key staff is available upon request.

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45 Mona Bontty, MBA, MHRM – Executive Sponsor
Mona Bontty is an emergency management professional
who currently serves as a Portfolio Manager with
CONSTANT, where she supports emergency management
planning projects for clients across the West. This includes serving as Executive Sponsor for multiple evacuation
planning projects. Ms. Bontty brings experience from over a decade of service with Cal OES, engaged in emergency
management response efforts, operations, exercises,
training development, and Whole Community planning.

Ms. Bontty directed a Region Emergency Management
Program for one of the nation’s largest populated areas of Southern California. She supported response and recovery related missions and deployed to various disasters
throughout California. Ms. Bontty has dual master’s degrees and has completed 50+ training courses.

RELEVANT PROJECT EXPERIENCE
Disaster Response Management, Cal OES Southern Region.

Ms. Bontty served as the Southern Regional Administrator for Cal OES and was responsible for a comprehensive emergency management program in a region that spans 11 Counties, 65,000 miles and serves a population of over 21,000,000 residents. During her appointment as Regional Administrator, Ms. Bontty directed the Cal OES Southern Region Emergency Operations Center (SREOC) and managed the response to 55+ real-world emergencies, ranging from floods, fires, inclement weather, and others, including Presidentially declared disasters. This included more than 30 wildfire responses requiring evacuations in Los Angeles, Ventura, San Bernardino, Riverside, and Orange counties.

Evacuation and Re-Entry (G358) Training Course, CSTI. Ms. Bontty served as the Course Manager in the update and curriculum redesign of the G358 course. This course was designed to provide participants, including from City jurisdictions, with the knowledge needed to design and implement an evacuation and re-entry plan for their jurisdictions.

It incorporates use of a community’s vulnerability analysis and recommends addressing evacuation behavior and ways to make evacuation and re-entry more efficient.

Evacuation Plans and Training, Multiple Clients. Ms. Bontty has served or serves as Executive Sponsor or support for multiple evacuation-related projects, including:
• San Mateo County, CA Evacuation Plan Framework/Toolkit • City of Malibu Evacuation Plan
• City of San José Evacuation Plan
• City of Ventura Evacuation Plan
• City of Pasadena Evacuation Plan

EDUCATION/TRAINING (SELECT)
Master of Business Administration, Keller Graduate School Certified Emergency Manager, CSTI

MONA BONTTY,

MBA, MHRM
• 32+ years of experience
in government service
• Response to more than
55 real-world disasters
• Dual master’s degrees
• Significant evacuation
planning experience

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46 Chelsea Richer, AICP, MURP – SME
Chelsea Richer has 15 years of experience in transportation planning, focusing on transportation resilience, climate action planning, and ways to encourage people to
diversify their travel patterns to include low-carbon modes.

Ms. Richer leads the Fehr & Peers companywide discipline group on Climate Change & Resilience. She excels on
projects that include deep data analysis, project
evaluation, and community engagement as the tools to
inform better decision-making and better outcomes. Her
technical practice areas are underpinned by strong
communication skills, attention to detail, and experience managing complex planning projects.

RELEVANT PROJECT EXPERIENCE
CAAP, City of La Cañada Flintridge. Fehr & Peers led the transportation modeling & VMT analysis for the La Cañada Flintridge CAAP, an update to the City’s 2016 Climate Action Plan. In one of the first project-based applications of the SCAG 2020 RTP activity-based model by any transportation consultant, Fehr & Peers’ technical analysis involved pulling VMT metrics from the SCAG model adjusted to the extent of city boundaries, applying additional adjustments to account for Jet Propulsion Laboratory on-site employees and citywide work-from-home employees, and providing a benchmark estimate for citywide “fairshare” VMT in the base and horizon years of the plan segmented by vehicle type.

Evacuation Policy, San Diego County. Ms. Richer led the application of EvacInsight, Fehr & Peers’ dynamic traffic assignment modeling tool, scenario testing, and development of a countywide policy related to evacuation times.

Evacuation Study, City of Montecito. Ms. Richer led the application of EvacInsight and scenario testing for different evacuation zone structures as a potential improvement to facilitate evacuations.

Evacuation Analysis, City of Westlake Village. Fehr & Peers is providing transportation and evacuation planning support, working closely with the project team and City staff to evaluate existing and future evacuation conditions, identify constraints and considerations, and support a citywide evacuation analysis for the City of Westlake Village. This project will assist the City in compliance with AB 747.

Safety Element Update, City of Malibu. Ms. Richer led investigation into the policy landscape and development of transportation-related evacuation recommendations that could improve coordination within Malibu’s Safety Element Update.

EDUCATION/TRAINING (SELECT)
Master of Urban and Regional Planning, University of California Los Angeles Bachelor of Arts, Environmental Studies and Public Policy, University of Chicago American Institute of Certified Planners No. 027878

CHELSEA RICHER,

AICP, MURP
• 15+ years of experience
in Transportation
Planning
• Master’s degree in
Urban and Regional
Planning
• American Institute of
Certified Planners
Certification

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47 Dan Smith, MPS – Project Manager
Daniel “Dan” Smith is an experienced and educated
professional with knowledge and skills in the fields of emergency management and homeland security. He
brings military experience specializing in planning, training, operations, and intelligence management coupled with
managerial experience within the field of emergency
management. His qualifications include serving in incident management positions for the City of Pittsburgh, PA, and the County of Horry, SC’s Offices of Emergency
Management. Mr. Smith has a bachelor’s degree in
Operational Meteorology and Climatology and a master’s
degree in Homeland Security.

RELEVANT PROJECT EXPERIENCE
Citywide Evacuation Plans, Cities of Long Beach, Ventura, and Malibu. Mr. Smith has served as Project Manager for the creation of Citywide Evacuation Plans for Long Beach,
Ventura, and Malibu. His role has spanned facilitating, meetings, managing the collaboration efforts with the City Evacuation Planning Team, conducting department interviews, creating and analyzing community surveys, conducting community engagement, and serving as Lead Author on all plans. Each Plan includes consideration of street network capacity, evacuation zones and routes, transportation infrastructure, roles and responsibilities, etc.

Eaton Fire AAR, City of La Cañada Flintridge. Mr. Smith served as Project Manager for the City’s Eaton Fire AAR, bringing extensive foundational knowledge of the City’s evacuation operations and corrective actions to be integrated within the Citywide Evacuation Plan.

Hurricane Matthew Evacuation, Horry County, SC. With Horry County, SC, Mr. Smith was responsible for the Operations section during emergency incident activations. He actively operated with participating County agencies and municipalities in problemsolving, decision-making, and resource-requesting processes during incidents, including the preparation, response, and recovery phases of Hurricane Matthew and the resulting flooding event, involving evacuation of coastal vulnerability areas.

City of Pittsburgh Incident Management, Pittsburgh, PA. Mr. Smith served in incident management roles with the City of Pittsburgh, PA for over three (3) years. His role included coordinating with City Public Safety Bureaus, government leadership, and logistics enterprises to provide timely planning, response, and recovery efforts in critical emergencies occurring within the City of Pittsburgh.

EDUCATION/TRAINING (SELECT)
Master of Professional Studies, Homeland Security, Pennsylvania State University Bachelor of Science, Geography, Major in Meteorology, Minor in Emergency Management and Homeland Security, Ball State University

DAN SMITH, MPS
• 10+ years of experience
in emergency
management
• Master’s degree in
emergency
management
• Proven Project
Manager for
Evacuation Plans

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48 Mary Rose Fissinger, MS – Project Support
Mary Rose Fissinger is a senior transportation
engineer/planner at Fehr & Peers with nine (9) years’
experience working in the transportation sector. She has worked for small transportation technology startups as well as large urban public transit agencies. Her transportation tech experience encompasses a micro transit startup, for which she worked on a first-of-its kind partnership between a tech-enabled micro transit service and a public transit agency, and a software company that helped
micromobility providers optimally allocate their vehicles across a market. She has worked as a data scientist in tech, building predictive demand models in the micromobility
and delivery space, and for the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), where she built cluster-based longitudinal behavioral models into the agency’s regular reporting process.

RELEVANT PROJECT EXPERIENCE
Citywide Travel Demand Forecasting Model and VMT Calculator Update, City of Los Angeles. Fehr & Peers led the update to the City of LA Travel Demand Forecasting Model and VMT Calculator. Ms. Fissinger led the update to the Calculator, which included updating underlying data sources and analysis, reviewing the most up-to-date research on VMT mitigation, incorporating changes in quantification methods and new mitigation actions into the calculator based on new research, streamlining the backend, and improving on the user interface of the Excel-based tool.

VMT Mitigation Pilot, LA Metro. Ms. Fissinger assisted with the development of an Excelbased tool that would allow LA Metro staff to understand the VMT mitigation implications of various Metro-led projects. She contributed to a modular, macro-light tool framework that enabled the user to input implementation parameters for any of sixteen total VMT mitigation actions and receive an estimate of total VMT mitigated. As part of this work, she researched standards for estimating VMT mitigation from a variety of different types of transportation projects and authored the user guide for this tool. She co-led a training of the tool for highway project managers at Metro.

Transportation Demand Model (TDM) Feasibility Study, Los Angeles County. Fehr & Peers and Arellano are partnered with AECOM who is leading a comprehensive planning and feasibility study for a regional TDM Program and VMT Mitigation Program for Los Angeles County. The study will support a sustainable regional transportation network that aligns with County guidelines and plans. Fehr & Peers will lead the development of the VMT Mitigation Bank and the Fiscal Framework and Pricing Structure.

EDUCATION/TRAINING (SELECT)
Master of Transportation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Master of Civil Systems Engineering, University of California, Berkeley Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, Boston College

MARY ROSE FISSINGER,
MS
• 9+ years of experience
in transportation
engineering
• Dual master’s degrees
in Civil Systems
Engineering and
Transportation
• Los Angeles County
Resident

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49 Alyssa Antczak, CEM, MS – Deputy Project Manager
Alyssa Antczak is a results-oriented emergency
management professional with experience improving
organizational preparedness, facilitating change,
implementing training, developing plans, and providing
effective response during disasters. She currently serves as an Associate II with CONSTANT, where she leads and/or
supports projects across emergency management
planning, training, and exercises. Ms. Antczak holds a
master’s degree in Emergency Management and
Homeland Security, the Certified Emergency Manager
designation through the International Association for
Emergency Managers and has completed 50+ emergency
management training certifications.

RELEVANT PROJECT EXPERIENCE
Evacuation and Shelter-in-Place Plan, City of Long Beach, CA. Ms. Antczak served as Deputy Project Manager in the development of the Evacuation and Shelter-in-Place Plan for the City of Long Beach. Plan development included
planning meetings, public surveys, stakeholder
engagement, and developing a survey analysis.

Evacuation Plan, City of Malibu, CA. Ms. Antczak currently supports the City of Malibu’s Evacuation Plan as Deputy Project Manager. In this role, she supports stakeholder engagement, plan writing, and exercise design.

Evacuation Tabletop Exercises (TTXs), San Mateo County. Ms. Antczak served in a supporting role in the development of three (3) TTXs for San Mateo County Department of Emergency Management. The exercises were designed to test evacuation capabilities for different scenarios in different areas within the County. She assisted with the development of the client meeting materials, developed Situational Manuals, facilitating client meetings, and created TTX PowerPoint presentations. 120 to Landfall Annual TTX, Southeastern Healthcare Preparedness Region, NC. Ms.

Antczak participated annually in a functional TTX designed to test the North Carolina Coastal Region Evacuation and Sheltering Standard Operating Guide. The exercise assists coastal North Carolina agencies in evaluating their individual evacuation plans.

Hurricane Sheltering Full-Scale Exercise (FSE) and Training, New Hanover County, NC. Ms.

Antczak was responsible for assisting in facilitating a hurricane sheltering FSE. Prior to the FSE, she assisted with facilitating EOC training to County staff to prepare for the exercise.

EDUCATION/TRAINING (SELECT)
Master of Science, Emergency Management and Homeland Security, Arkansas Tech Bachelor of Science, Emergency Administration and Management, Arkansas Tech EMS and Fire Rescue volunteer
Certified Emergency Manager, International Association of Emergency Managers

ALYSSA ANTCZAK,

CEM, MS
• Leading role in City of
Long Beach Evacuation
and Shelter-in-Place
Plan and City of Malibu
Evacuation Plan
• Certified Emergency
Manager
• Master’s degree in
Emergency
Management

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50 Griffin Kantz, AICP, MS – Project Support
Griffin Kantz is a transportation planner specializing in travel demand modeling and data science. He has six (6) years
of professional consulting experience in transportation data analysis for public and private clients in Southern California.

Mr. Kantz leverages his fluency in advanced datasets, data methods, and platforms to curate insightful, actionable information about travel behaviors in consistency with state policy guidelines.

RELEVANT PROJECT EXPERIENCE
CAAP, City of La Cañada Flintridge. Fehr & Peers led the transportation modeling & VMT analysis for the La Cañada Flintridge CAAP, an update to the City’s
2016 Climate Action Plan. In one of the first project-based applications of the SCAG 2020 RTP activity-based model by any transportation consultant, Fehr & Peers’ technical
analysis involved pulling VMT metrics from the SCAG model adjusted to the extent of city boundaries, applying additional adjustments to account for Jet Propulsion Laboratory on-site employees and citywide work-from-home employees, and providing a benchmark estimate for citywide “fair-share” VMT in the base and horizon years of the plan segmented by vehicle type. Mr. Kantz supported this work as an analyst.

Evacuation Study, City of Montecito. Mr. Kantz served as lead modeler for this evacuation planning effort on behalf of the Montecito Fire District. This project deployed a customized version of the Fehr & Peers EvacInsight modeling tool to simulate baseline and evacuation scenarios for a populous mountainous community with varying capacity constraint assumptions. He innovated a method for producing animated scenario simulations of vehicular congestion based on model outputs.

CAAPs, City of Beverly Hills and City of Los Angeles. Mr. Kantz has supported larger teams developing CAAPs for the cities of Beverly Hills and Los Angeles. For each of these, he was responsible for establishing a baseline VMT inventory and future VMT forecasts based on a variety of scenarios that included investment in transportation assets to support more efficient land use that would require shorter and fewer vehicle trips.

VMT Mitigation Pilot, LA Metro. Mr. Kantz assisted with the development of an Excel-based tool that would allow LA Metro staff to understand the VMT mitigation implications of various Metro-led projects. As part of this work, he researched standards for estimating VMT mitigation from a variety of different types of transportation projects.

EDUCATION/TRAINING (SELECT)
Master of City Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bachelor of Science, Policy, Planning, and Development, USC American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) No. 37502

GRIFFIN KANTZ, AICP, MS
• 6+ years of experience
in travel demand
modeling
• Experience with the City
through the CAAP
project
• AICP Planner
• Master’s degree in City
Planning

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51 Financial/Relational Disclosure
Prime Contractor CONSTANT has a professional affiliation with the City of La Cañada Flintridge through recent authorship of Eaton Fire and Wind Storm AAR/IP. Fehr & Peers also has a previous professional affiliation with the City of La Cañada Flintridge through support to the CAAP.

Terms and Conditions
Team CONSTANT has concerns with select terms and requirements of the proposed agreement. Below, we detail the items of concern, striking language, and detailing the nature and reasons for their concern, as well as providing recommend specific alternative language in underline.

Team CONSTANT is open to negotiations to align with the City’s requirements. We would also want to verify whether the contract structure is FFP or T&M for implications for additional meetings and reimbursable expenses.

Scope of Services. Section 1.1, Paragraph 1
Changes Requested: In compliance with all terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Consultant shall provide those services specified in the “Scope of Services” attached hereto as Exhibit “A” and incorporated herein by this reference, which may be referred to herein as the “services” or “work” hereunder. As a material inducement to the City entering into this Agreement, Consultant represents and warrants that it has the qualifications, experience, and facilities necessary to properly perform the services required under this Agreement in a thorough, competent, and professional manner, and is experienced in performing the work and services contemplated herein. Consultant shall at all times faithfully, competently and to the best of its ability, experience and talent, perform all services described herein exercising that degree of care, skill, and diligence ordinarily exercised by professionals providing similar services in the same or similar locale and under similar circumstances to that of Consultant under this Agreement (the “Standard of Care”). Consultant covenants that it shall follow the highest professional standards in performing the work and services required hereunder and that all materials will be both of good quality as well as fit for the purpose intended. For purposes of this Agreement, the phrase “highest professional standards” shall mean those standards of practice recognized by one or more first-class firms performing similar work under similar circumstances.

Reason for Changes: We are providing the definition of the prevailing, professional standard of care that consultants are to meet in their professional services. The stricken language creates a heightened standard of care that is undefined. Falling short of the standard of care is the definition of negligence. Professional liability insurance only covers the insured professional's negligence in the performance of its services. It does not cover contractual obligations to meet a standard higher than the prevailing standard of care.

Compliance with Law. Section 1.3
Changes Requested: Exercising the Standard of Care as defined above in Section

1.1, Consultant shall keep itself informed concerning, and shall render all services hereunder in accordance with, all applicable ordinances, resolutions, statutes, rules, and

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52 regulations of the City and any Federal, State or local governmental entity having jurisdiction in effect at the time service is rendered.

Reason for Changes: The nature of rendering professional services requires professional Consultants to exercise their professional judgment concerning the reasonable interpretation and application of laws and regulations to the services being performed.

Exercising reasonable care to comply with such laws and regulations is all a client can really expect of a professional Consultant that is not a lawyer providing legal services.

Familiarity with Work. Section 1.6
Changes Requested: By executing this Agreement, Consultant represents warrants that Consultant (i) has thoroughly investigated and considered the scope of services to be performed, (ii) has carefully considered how the services should be performed, and (iii) fully understands the facilities, difficulties and restrictions attending performance of the services under this Agreement. If the services involve work upon any site, Consultant warrants represents that Consultant has or will investigate the site and is or will be fully acquainted with the conditions there existing, prior to commencement of services hereunder. Should the Consultant discover any latent or unknown conditions, which will materially affect the performance of the services hereunder, Consultant shall immediately inform the City of such fact and shall not proceed except at Consultant’s risk until written instructions are received from the Contract Officer in the form of a Change Order.

Indemnification. Section 5.3
Changes Requested: To the full extent permitted by law, Consultant agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the City, its officers, and employees and agents (“Indemnified Parties”) against, and will hold and save them and each of them harmless from, any and all actions, either judicial, administrative, arbitration or regulatory claims, damages to persons or property, losses, costs, penalties, obligations, errors, omissions or liabilities whether actual or threatened (herein “claims or liabilities”) that may be asserted or claimed by any person, firm or entity arising out of or in connection with but only to the extent such claims or liabilities are caused by the negligent performance of the work, operations or activities provided herein of Consultant, its officers, employees, agents, subcontractors, or invitees, or any individual or entity for which Consultant is legally liable (“indemnitors”), or arising from Consultant’s or indemnitors’ reckless or willful misconduct, or arising from Consultant’s or indemnitors’ negligent performance of or failure to perform any term, provision, covenant or condition of this Agreement, and in connection therewith:
(a) Consultant will reimburse City for defend any action or actions filed in connection with any of said claims or liabilities and will pay all costs and expenses, including reasonable legal costs and attorneys’ fees incurred by City in connection therewith within the scope of the defense obligation above; (b) Within the scope of the indemnity obligation above, Consultant will promptly pay any judgment rendered against the City, its officers, agents or employees for any such claims or liabilities arising out of or in connection with to the extent caused by the negligent performance of or failure to perform such work, operations or activities of Consultant

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53 hereunder; and Consultant agrees to save and hold the City, its officers, agents, and employees harmless therefrom;
(c) In the event the City, its officers, agents or employees is made a party to any action or proceeding filed or prosecuted against Consultant for such damages or other claims arising out of or in connection with the negligent performance of or failure to perform the work, operation or activities of Consultant hereunder, Consultant agrees to pay to the City, its officers, agents or employees, any and all costs and expenses incurred by the City, its officers, agents or employees in such action or proceeding, including but not limited to, legal costs and attorneys’ fees.

Consultant shall incorporate similar indemnity agreements with its subcontractors and if it fails to do so Consultant shall be fully responsible to indemnify City hereunder therefore, and failure of City to monitor compliance with these provisions shall not be a waiver hereof. This indemnification includes claims or liabilities arising from to the extent caused by any negligent or intentionally wrongful act, error or omission, or reckless or willful misconduct of Consultant in the performance of professional services hereunder. The provisions of this Section do not apply to claims or liabilities to the extent caused by occurring as a result of City’s sole negligence or willful acts or omissions., but, to the fullest extent permitted by law, shall apply to claims and liabilities resulting in part from City’s negligence, except that design professionals’ indemnity hereunder shall be limited to claims and liabilities arising out of the negligence, recklessness or willful misconduct of the design professional. The indemnity obligation shall be binding on successors and assigns of Consultant and shall survive termination of this Agreement.

Reason for Change: Our changes are to align this indemnity obligation with the coverage provided by Professional Liability Insurance in the indemnity context.

Ownership of Documents. Section 6.3
Changes Requested: All drawings, specifications, maps, designs, photographs, studies, surveys, data, notes, computer files, reports, records, documents and other materials (the “documents and materials”) prepared by Consultant, its employees, subcontractors and agents in the performance of this Agreement shall be the property of City and shall be delivered to City upon request of the Contract Officer or upon the termination of this Agreement, and Consultant shall have no claim for further employment or additional compensation as a result of the exercise by City of its full rights of ownership use, reuse, or assignment of the documents and materials hereunder. Any use, reuse or assignment of such completed documents for other projects and/or use of uncompleted documents without specific written authorization by the Consultant will be at the City’s sole risk and without liability to Consultant, and Consultant’s guarantee and warranties shall not extend to such use, reuse or assignment. Consultant may retain copies of such documents for its own use. Consultant shall have the right to use the concepts embodied therein. All subcontractors shall provide for assignment to City of any documents or materials prepared by them, and in the event Consultant fails to secure such assignment, Consultant shall indemnify City for all damages resulting therefrom. Moreover, Consultant with respect to any documents and materials that may qualify as “works made for hire” as defined in 17 U.S.C. § 101, such documents and materials are hereby deemed “works made for hire” for the City. However, notwithstanding the foregoing, or any provision to

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54 the contrary in this Agreement, intellectual property owned or created by any third party other than Consultant, its subcontractors, or City (“Third-Party Content”), and inventions, improvements, discoveries, methodologies, models, formats, software, algorithms, processes, procedures, designs, specifications, findings, and other intellectual properties developed, gathered, compiled or produced by Consultant or its subcontractors prior to or independently of their performance of this Agreement (“Background IP”), including such Third-Party Content or Background IP that Consultant or its subcontractors may employ in their performance of this Agreement, or may incorporate into any part of the documents and materials, shall not be the property of the City. Consultant, or its subcontractors as applicable, shall retain all rights, titles, and interests, including but not limited to all ownership and intellectual property rights, in all such Background IP.

Consultant, and its subcontractors as applicable, grant City an irrevocable, nonexclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free license in perpetuity to use, reproduce, prepare derivative works based upon, distribute, disclose, derive from, perform, and display such documents and materials, but only as an inseparable part of, and only for the purpose intended by creation of, the documents and materials. In the event the documents and materials contain, or incorporate, any Third-Party Content, or derivative work based on such Third-Party Content, or any compilation that includes such Third-Party Content, Consultant shall secure all licenses to any such Third-Party Content, but only as an inseparable part of the documents and materials, where such licenses are necessary for City to utilize and enjoy Consultant's services and the documents and materials for their intended purposes. Any use of Consultant’s documents and materials for any other project or purpose not authorized in writing by Consultant, any modifications to the documents and materials made by anyone other than Consultant, and any use of incomplete documents and materials (“Unauthorized Uses”) shall be at City’s sole risk, and Consultant shall bear no liability for the City’s Unauthorized Uses of the documents and materials. City agrees to indemnify, defend and hold Consultant and its officers, agents and employees harmless from any claims, losses, damages, costs, including without limitation attorneys' fees, arising out of any such Unauthorized Uses of the documents and materials by City.

Reason for Changes: We may use or integrate some of our own pre-existing intellectual properties into our work product, which we believe will enhance our services and further the goals of our clients’ projects. However, we cannot take the risk of losing our rights to our intellectual properties. Second, we may have to use third-party content, such as big data provided by third-party data providers, for which we may receive only a limited-use license and not ownership. It is often necessary for such third-party providers to retain ownership of such data for the uses of other clients or purposes. In such cases, we will secure a license for the City to such content if it is incorporated into our deliverables.

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55 Addendum No. 1
Team CONSTANT acknowledges receipt and acceptance of Addendum No. 1.

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Technical Proposal | Request for Proposal
Development of Citywide Evacuation Plan
Issuing Agency:

City of La Cañada Flintridge

Table of Contents
Section 1: Cover Letter............................................................................................................................... 3 Section 2: Firm Qualifications and Experience with Similar Projects................................................... 4 Section 3: Project Understanding and Approach.................................................................................... 6 Section 4: Key Personnel, Resumes, and Rates ................................................................................... 12 Section 5: Proposed Budget.................................................................................................................... 20 Section 6: References and Sample Work ............................................................................................... 21 Appendix A. ............................................................................................................................................... 23 Resumes .................................................................................................................................................... 23 Appendix B. Exhibits ................................................................................................................................ 39 Exhibit A: Non-Collusion Affidavit .......................................................................................................... 40 Exhibit B: Financial and/or Relational Disclosure................................................................................. 41

Section 1: Cover Letter
April 1, 2026
Reference: Proposal to Support the City of La Cañada Flintridge Attention: Arabo Parseghian, Assistant City Manager
Dear Arabo Parseghian,
The City of La Cañada Flintridge (City) plays a critical role in safeguarding its community during emergencies. Evacuation planning is a growing and vital component of disaster preparedness; the recent Eaton and Palisades wildfires highlight the importance of developing and testing emergency management plans. The City’s 2021 Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) and 2024 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan reflects a commitment to emergency preparedness; our goal is to build on this by engaging program managers, aligning with current departmental structures, and fostering agency-wide evacuation and re-entry fluency and ownership.

It is our understanding that at this time, the City seeks to enhance its emergency preparedness through the creation of a citywide evacuation plan. Recognizing the evolving organizational structure and the need to engage program managers and staff at all levels, this project aims to build internal capacity to sustain critical services during evacuations.

As such, we understand the purpose of this assessment is to provide an independent review of the City’s emergency management plans and lessons learned from previous incident responses. We understand the City also seeks to create a set of actionable, evidence-based, and stakeholder-aligned documents that improve readiness, coordination, and response capabilities in the event of a disaster requiring evacuation and subsequent re-entry. Finally, we understand that the City requires a consultant team that brings both subject matter expertise in evacuation planning and transportation modeling with the ability to deliver a quality process and product on a tight timeline. Based on this understanding, we believe that Stantec is the right team for the job and look forward to assisting the City with this important project. The contents of this proposal will stay valid for ninety days after submittal and Stantec does not have any financial or professional affiliations with the City.

Our team is committed to ensuring effective project management, meaningful stakeholder engagement, and thoughtful subject matter expertise and consulting to meet your needs throughout this effort. Thank you for the opportunity to provide this proposal. We trust that we have understood your requirements; please call or email Zane Beall if you have any questions.

Regards,
Stantec Consulting Services Inc.

Zane Beall, MPA
Project Manager
(206) 494-5011
[email protected]
Victoria Edington, PE, PTOE
Transportation Lead
(303) 285-4575
[email protected]

Section 2: Firm Qualifications and Experience with
Similar Projects
Stantec’s team of emergency management specialists provide support to communities nationwide, and more specifically, throughout California, where most of us call home. Our team is experienced in using the Standardized Emergency Management System (SEMS), National Incident Management System (NIMS) and designing plans to comply with guidance including FEMA’s CGC, and CalOES’ evacuation standards. The Stantec team has supported communities from local jurisdictions in our broad range of experience in emergency operations and response planning that identifies and integrates whole community needs, gaps, and existing capabilities.

Stantec provides community-focused disaster planning services that integrate national best practices with a knowledge that our communities are unique and require tailored solutions. We are skilled not only in evacuation planning but in working with our clients to identify their needs, develop plans accordingly, and train to identified capacities and capabilities. We are excited to support you in preparing for the next disaster and building stronger, more resilient communities.

This section outlines Stantec’s proposed approach to carry out this phase of evacuation planning related to the City’s development of a citywide evacuation plan.

As outlined in the City’s proposed Cover Letter, we understand this effort to include the following:

Project Approach Previous Client Solutions
Methodology - The team will use a combination
of traffic impact analysis and emergency
preparedness methodologies to define an
approach appropriate for the context for the area.
• Douglas County Emergency Operations
and Evacuation Management Plan.
• City of Arvada Evacuation Plan.
• Statewide Critical Infrastructure Training
and Exercise Program.
• Statewide Critical Infrastructure
Emergency Action Plan Update.
• Internal Emergency Response and Rapid
Recovery Plan Development.
• Maui County WSD Emergency Response
Plan.
• Tsunami Evacuation Facility Improvement
Planning Project.

Documentation Review - The team will validate
the City’s approved infrastructure, community
planning documents, communication, and
emergency preparedness plans.
• Douglas County Emergency Operations
and Evacuation Management Plan.
• City of Arvada Evacuation Plan.
• Statewide Critical Infrastructure Training
and Exercise Program.
• Hay River Spring Flood After Action
Review.
• Internal Emergency Response and Rapid
Recovery Plan Development.

Project Approach Previous Client Solutions
• Maui County WSD Emergency Response
Plan.
• Tsunami Evacuation Facility Improvement
Planning Project.

Areas of Opportunity - Stantec will identify
stakeholders for technical and non-technical input,
capture and refine concerns, and apply the
methodology to evaluate gaps between the
existing conditions and the future growth
(buildout).
• Douglas County Emergency Operations
and Evacuation Management Plan.
• City of Arvada Evacuation Plan.
• Statewide Critical Infrastructure Training
and Exercise Program.
• Statewide Critical Infrastructure
Emergency Action Plan Update.
• Troutdale, Fairview, Wood Village EOP
Updates.
• Tsunami Evacuation Facility Improvement
Planning Project.

Transportation Recommendations - The team
will develop recommendations for the
transportation network, focusing on infrastructure
bottlenecks and risks. Recommendations will
need to focus on neighborhood egress/ingress,
and analyze operational level of service related to
emergency preparedness plans, and prioritize
improvements based on risk factors.
• Douglas County Emergency Operations
and Evacuation Management Plan.
• City of Arvada Evacuation Plan.
• Statewide Critical Infrastructure Training
and Exercise Program.
• Statewide Critical Infrastructure
Emergency Action Plan Update.
• Troutdale, Fairview, Wood Village EOP
Updates.
• Maui County WSD Emergency Response
Plan.
• Tsunami Evacuation Facility Improvement
Planning Project.

Evacuation Plan – Stantec will develop an
evacuation plan using the available infrastructure
as well as when the short term and long-term
recommendations are implemented.
• Douglas County Emergency Operations
and Evacuation Management Plan.
• City of Arvada Evacuation Plan.
• Statewide Critical Infrastructure Training
and Exercise Program.
• Statewide Critical Infrastructure
Emergency Action Plan Update.
• Maui County WSD Emergency Response
Plan.
• Tsunami Evacuation Facility Improvement
Planning Project.

Community Engagement and External Agency
Coordination – Stantec will engage with
community stakeholders and external agencies to
inform the development of the plan.
• Douglas County Emergency Operations
and Evacuation Management Plan.
• City of Arvada Evacuation Plan.
• Statewide Critical Infrastructure Training
and Exercise Program.
• Statewide Critical Infrastructure
Emergency Action Plan Update.

Project Approach Previous Client Solutions
• Maui County WSD Emergency Response
Plan.
• Tsunami Evacuation Facility Improvement
Planning Project.

Section 3: Project Understanding and Approach
Local Team, Local Knowledge. This project will be managed and technically guided by a team that has been supporting Southern California communities on their emergency management programs for over 10 years. Stantec is a corporation and is bidding as the prime consultant for this request for proposal. No subconsultants will be used for this project. Daven Solis, Lauri Benblatt, and Zane Beall have supported the region throughout their careers and have experience working directly with local Southern California Communities, Los Angeles County, and the Department of Water Resources. No current or past litigation, mediation, or arbitration regarding the performance of any services similar to the services highlighted in this request for proposal has occurred. Daven Solis will serve as the point of contact for Stantec from the Pasadena Office. His contact information is listed below.

Stantec Point of Contact Information
Daven Solis Email: [email protected]
300 N Lake Ave Suite 1080
Pasadena, CA 91101
Direct: 562-458-2494
Scalable Approaches to Evacuation Assessment. The Stantec team has a proven approach to assessment of evacuation programs that align with current CalOES guidance as well as the standards set forth by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). We have assessed programs large and small including evacuation assessments for the Department of Water Resources, the City of Arvada and Douglas County. Stantec will draw on this expertise to establish an assessment approach that is right for the city and meets the requirements of Assembly Bill 747, Assembly Bill 1409 and Senate Bill 99.

Project Schedule
The technical approach presented in this quote assumes a 32-week project duration with a start date of May 11, 2026, and final deliverables provided no later than December 18, 2026. A proposed schedule is provided below and will be refined upon contract award.

Tasks May June July Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Task 1: Project Management and
Coordination
Orientation Call
Task 2: Review of Existing Conditions
and Documents
Task 3: Hazard and Evacuation Analysis
Task 4: Special Populations and Access
Considerations
Task 5: Evacuation Strategy and
Procedures
Task 6: Public Communications and
Implementation Framework
Task 7: Community Engagement and
External Agency Coordination
Task 1: Project Management and Coordination
At Stantec, efficient and effective management of project resources is the foundation of how we approach meeting your objectives for this project on time and on budget. The Stantec Project Manager will serve as your day-to-day point of contact and, in accordance with Stantec’s Project Management Framework, is responsible for oversight of all Stantec personnel and resources assigned to this project. The Project Manager is supported by two Technical Leads who provide technical and quality review of project deliverables and are available to assist the project manager in making sure the right resources are available at the right time to get the job done. Regular and responsive communication and collaboration are hallmarks of Stantec’s approach to project management and this scope of work includes the following project coordination activities:
 Task 1: Key Activities

1. The Stantec team will facilitate an in-person Project Kickoff and Scoping Workshop with the City staff and other key stakeholders. Key outcomes for this 2-3-hour workshop will include the following:
a. Introduction of project team.
b. Validation of project management approach, project schedule, and key deliverables. c. Development of key metrics for project success.
d. Establishment of communication protocols and meeting schedule. e. Co-design of an approach for stakeholder engagement to inform plan development. f. Prepare and submit a data request and web-based capability-review survey that will support the city and their cooperators and community partners in providing inputs

required for the evacuation plan and evacuation and re-entry annex. g. Confirm data received and any additional data gathering requirements. h. Confirm invoicing protocol and delivery method of invoices.

2. Set up and maintain a mechanism for information sharing mechanism either through Stantec’s enterprise access to Microsoft SharePoint or another tool maintained by the City.

3. Maintain a Project Log that will serve as a living document to capture summaries of project meetings and other key information. The Project Log will serve in lieu of individual meeting summaries and will be available for review on the project site.

4. Maintain a Project Management Plan that encompasses the invoicing protocol.

5. Data request form for background information and data.  Task 1: Deliverables

1. Kick-off meeting.

2. Detailed Work Plan Memorandum.

3. Schedule of project check-in meetings.

4. Invoicing protocol.

5. Data request and review of background information and data.

6. Establishment of staff qualifications and budget requirements (refer to Section 2).  Task 1: Assumptions
• The City will identify a primary point of contact for all projectactivities. • The City will provide electronic versions of all relevant planning documents prior to the Project Kickoff and Scoping Workshop.

Task 2: Review of Existing Conditions and Documents
Stantec understands that the success of this project relies on the meaningful engagement of key stakeholders including City employees, Los Angeles County staff, state employees, and residents. The team will validate the City’s approved infrastructure, community planning documents,
communication and emergency preparedness plans with key stakeholders. After a review of the data collected, Stantec will create a steering committee and define roles and
responsibilities of agencies and stakeholders. The
identification of vulnerable populations and needs will take place to determine the needs and current capabilities during a potential evacuation. Stantec will provide recommendations for mitigation measures to address identified deficiencies.  Task 2: Key Activities

1. Prepare a strategic stakeholder involvement plan.

2. Analyze local hazards, population distribution, and
infrastructure vulnerabilities.
a. Confirm and refine plan area boundaries.
b. Identify information from overlapping plans influencing the area. c. Define the hazards and risks to be covered within the area. d. Identify areas in a very high fire hazard severity zone without secondary egress routes to meet Public Resource Code Section 4290.5.

3. The team will identify evacuation zones, routes, and alternatives by conducting an extensive document review to understand the capabilities of the City and the threats in the area. a. Review relevant City operational and maintenance policies. b. Review current planned land-uses and relevant existing multimodal plans.

Figure 1. Emergency Management Cycle for
Evacuation Planning

c. Review City sub-area plans.
d. Review any existing transit services or transit plans within the area. e. Review documentation of prior studies or relevant plans (e.g., annexation applications, developer-sponsored traffic studies, City staff reports, conditions of approval/reasons for denial, Incident After-Action Reports, etc.).
i. General Plan
ii. Emergency Operations Plan (Adopted 2021).
iii. Local Hazard Mitigation Plan (Adopted 2024).
iv. Evacuation Routes (major roadways).
v. Southern California Catastrophic Earthquake Plan.
vi. CalOES Draft Mass Evac Guide 2025-26.

4. Develop strategies for vulnerable
populations, including elderly, disabled
individuals, and non-English speakers and
classify them into evacuee population types.

5. Develop a general evacuation framework to
be customized for multiple zones.

6. Define roles and responsibilities of agencies
and stakeholders involved in evacuation
operations.
 Task 2: Deliverables

1. Stakeholder Engagement Memorandum.

2. Identify Stakeholders, Meetings, and
Materials for up to three in-person meetings,
one web-survey, and up to three passive
educational materials (Three total
shareholder meetings to be supported by
Stantec).

3. Conduct document review and present findings to the City.

4. Create evacuation framework that contains evacuation routes, highlight vulnerable populations, divide the City into 5 distinct evacuation areas.

5. Create matrix defining roles and responsibilities for local, county and state stakeholders.

6. Provide mitigation measures for identified deficiencies.  Task 2: Assumptions
• Stantec in-person engagement support will be limited to up to three 2-hour meetings. • Stantec will support the printing of 1–2-page handouts and presentation materials. • City will facilitate public outreach with material provided by Stantec.

Task 3: Hazard and Evacuation Analysis
Stantec will conduct a comprehensive hazard and evacuation analysis on regional hazards identified in the hazard mitigation plan with an emphasis on wildfire, earthquake and man-made hazards. These will include data from local, county and state documentation. Once hazards are identified the team will research transportation limitations for evacuation routes and determine their capacities. In order to Figure 2. Evacuee Population Types

develop a comprehensive plan four
different scenarios will be tested across the
city designed to test different evacuation
routes. Once the assessment is completed
mitigation measures will be recommended
for identified deficiencies.
 Task 3: Key Activities

1. Conduct risk and vulnerability
assessments based on regional
hazards (e.g., wildfires, floods,
hazardous material release,
earthquakes).

2. Evaluate the capacity and
functionality of existing evacuation
routes and resources.

3. Perform 5 scenario-based modeling
to include flood, wildfires, hazardous
materials, and earthquakes, to
simulate evacuation processes and
identify bottlenecks or gaps. AB 747
requires evaluation of the capacity of the evacuation network under a range of emergency scenarios.

4. Recommend mitigation measures to address identified deficiencies.  Task 3: Deliverables

1. Submit risk and vulnerability assessment.

2. Conduct Traffic Impact Analysis (TIA).

3. Provide evacuation modeling for four scenarios for flood, wildfire, hazardous materials and earthquakes. Draft scenarios are below.
a. San Gabriel Mountains Wildfire.
b. San Andreas Earthquake.
c. Verdugo Mountains Wildfire.
d. Jet Propulsion Laboratory Hazardous Materials Release. e. San Gabriel Mountain Debris Flows.

4. Submit mitigation measures to the City.

5. Include maps, graphics, and supporting documents as appendices.  Task 3: Assumptions
• The area will be limited to the transportation network immediately supporting the City, unless agreed in writing by Stantec and the City.
• The technical memorandum will be developed in a manner that allows it to be efficiently plugged directly into the Evacuation Plan.
• Scope assumes up to 5 maps and 5 evacuation zones.
• Scope assumes that the hazards and risks within this project will be multi-hazard in nature, but hazard-specific analysis will be limited to the primary impacts of hazards and only focused on those impacts that relate directly to evacuation activities.

Figure 3. Transportation Facilities within Evacuation Operations

Task 4: Special Populations and Access Considerations
Stantec will collaborate with stakeholders to identify populations with unique transportation requirements and provide a roadmap for the City to evacuate them safely. Our team will identify special populations and conduct community outreach to address their concerns.  Task 4: Key Activities

1. Coordinate with stakeholders to determine the evacuation needs for special population. a. Develop different evacuation classes for individuals.

2. Review access and functional needs requirements.

3. Other Recommendations.
a. Collaborate with local utilities to identify special needs population.  Task 4: Deliverables

1. Identify population with special needs.

2. Provide evacuation solutions for special populations.  Task 4: Assumptions
• The City will provide Stantec material to help identify special needs populations. • The City will provide points of contact from the hazard mitigation plan stakeholder list.

Task 5: Evacuation Strategy and Procedures
Stantec will provide an evacuation plan and re-entry matrix, provide a roadmap for plan maintenance, and ultimately align recommendations for other emergency management plans. The citywide evacuation plan will be provided as living documents to better align with local, county and state planning documents.  Task 5: Key Activities

1. Provide shelter in place vs evacuation decision framework

2. Revise evacuation zones from stakeholder feedback.

3. Provide an evacuation assessment report with analysis and recommendations.

4. Create traffic control and alternate routes.

5. Develop a citywide evacuation plan.

6. Include maps, graphics, and supporting documents as appendices.  Task 5: Deliverables

1. Submit draft citywide evacuation plan to the City

2. Submit final citywide evacuation plan to the City.

3. Provide an evacuation assessment report.
 Task 5: Assumptions
• Recommendations will be limited to high-level identification of actions to be taken, supported by identification of timeline, responsibly parties, and potential funding sources. • The evacuation plan, evacuation and re-entry annex and final report will be provided in electronic format (Microsoft Word and PDF).

Task 6: Public Communications and Implementation Framework Stantec will provide public‑facing evacuation guidance; integrating messaging with the City’s alerting and communication systems. This work encompasses creating standardized message templates and

multilingual materials; aligning communications with evacuation zones, routes, and public‑readiness efforts with the goal of deploying a unified, plain‑language framework. Additionally, Stantec will collaborate with stakeholders and city staff.
 Task 6: Key Activities

1. Develop public facing evacuation guidance.

2. Integrate citywide evacuation plan with alert and communication systems.

3. Define implementation strategies for city staff.
 Task 6: Deliverables

1. Provide two in-person workshops for city staff and residents.

2. Provide three virtual workshops to increase community outreach

3. Define roles and responsibility for plan implementation.  Task 6: Assumptions
• The City will provide a virtual link for in-person workshops to enhance outreach. • The City will take consultant recommendations on integrating the citywide evacuation plan with other planning documents and procedures.

Task 7: Community Engagement and External Agency Coordination Stantec will engage with the community to identify key stakeholders. We will also identify external partners and collaborate with them during the planning process. Our work with other evacuation plans coordinating with community members and external partners enhanced the planning process and created deliverables that served the whole community.
 Task 7: Key Activities

1. Submit a community stakeholder engagement plan.

2. Submit an external stakeholder engagement plan.

3. Establish list of key stakeholders for the citywide evacuation planning process.

4. Establish meeting cadence for stakeholders.
 Task 7: Deliverables

1. Submit two engagement plans.

2. Identify key stakeholders.

3. Develop meeting schedule for stakeholders.
 Task 7: Assumptions
• The City will provide community stakeholders from previous planning processes. • Stantec will provide in person meetings with community stakeholders.

Section 4: Key Personnel, Resumes, and Rates
Members of our team are trained and educated practitioners in the world of emergency management and evacuation planning. We have previously served in local, state, and federal government, as well as the private sector and healthcare spaces. Our prime objective is to provide the best advice to the organization that requested our services, based on its needs. Because of our diverse backgrounds, we come into these opportunities with a baseline understanding of the pain points and drivers of our clients’ needs. Our local project team consists of personnel with extensive experience in California. In addition, our

Emergency Management and Community Resilience practice ensures constant access to the expertise and resources made available within the 34,000-plus employee Stantec community.

Matthew Lieuallen JD
Principal-in-Charge
20 years of experience
Certifications: None
Matthew has extensive experience managing projects designed to enhance community resilience. He has led efforts for a wide range of clients including local, state, federal, tribal, and commercial partners; and he has effectively managed projects at a range of scales--from small community plans to multiyear, multi-million statewide planning efforts. Experienced across a range of sectors including energy, water, and healthcare, Matthew is passionate at advancing programmatic approaches to strengthening the resilience of our community lifelines and is currently managing development of a comprehensive emergency preparedness program for one of the largest statewide infrastructure systems in the Western United States. Under Stantec's comprehensive support to the California Department of Water Resources to develop and implement an Emergency Preparedness Program for the State Water Project (SWP), Matthew serves as the task manager for the development of an overarching state water project emergency management plan (SWP EMP). Matthew will as the top technical authority to define strategy, ensure project quality, and mentor staff. Key duties include managing budgets, setting technical standards, reviewing designs, ensuring safety compliance, and aligning City goals with company objectives
Zane Beall MPA
Project Manager
13 years of experience
Certifications: None
Zane is our Emergency Management and Community Resilience Practice Lead and works to ensure our clients have access to the right personnel and resources for the job. A project manager and emergency planner, Mr. Beall has thirteen years of professional experience providing clients with thoughtful advice, engaging stakeholder facilitation, and final deliverables of the highest quality Zane has extensive experience in emergency management and exercise planner who improved alert and warning procedures and operational exercises. He has served as the project manager for planning team for the California Department of Water Resources (DWR). With his team, he developed standard operating procedures for emergency response and recovery roles, updated incident command team guides and made improvements in evacuation planning. Zane will define project scope, establish budgets, create schedules, mitigate risks, manage cross-functional teams, and ensure regulatory compliance.

Daven Solis MS
Deputy Project Manager
11 years of experience
Certifications: Hazardous Materials Technician and Operations Daven is an experienced emergency management planner who worked with DOD and the city of Pasadena on developing evacuation plans. During his federal experience he tested emergency management programs through functional exercises and drafted after action reports to improve re-entry and family reunification processes. He was the project manager for the City of Pasadena’s evacuation plan and developed 5 evacuation zones by collaborating with City and regional leaders. The plan was approved and adopted by the City and helped them respond to the Eaton Fire. Daven will manage daily technical operations, coordinate multidisciplinary teams, track budgets and schedules, and mitigate risks Victoria Edington PE, PTOE
Transportation Lead
11 years of experience
Certifications: Professional Engineer, Professional Traffic Operations Engineer Victoria has worked on traffic engineering and transportation design projects often reflects this passion, as she brings innovative, pragmatic solutions to her clients. She has completed signal retiming and corridor studies for the City and County of Denver, the City of Aurora, and the Colorado Department of Transportation, providing easier, safer commutes to Colorado drivers. Across North America, she has conducted traffic analyses using VISSIM microsimulation modeling for projects as diverse as light rail in Calgary, Alberta, roundabouts in Winona, Minnesota, and bus rapid transit in Charleston, South Carolina.

Her additional areas of expertise include signal design, safety studies, complete streets, and multi-modal transportation analysis. Victoria was recognized by the industry in 2021 by being named one of the Institute of Transportation Engineer's 20 Young Leaders to Follow. Victoria will direct, manage, and provide technical oversight for traffic studies, ITS projects, and transportation planning.

Brent Hypnarowski PE
Traffic Engineer Lead
9 years of experience
Certifications: Professional Engineer
Brent has worked on traffic modeling for clients across the country. He has worked on projects that entailed freeway expansion, road development and analyzed mapping and analyzing the entire cities traffic signal network Over the years, Brent used Synchro 10 and Tru-Traffic 10, he looked at the existing performance of each traffic signal and applied modern engineering principles to improve the overall networks performance. Brent will conduct traffic studies, design traffic signal timing, analyze traffic impact, and optimize traffic flow.

Grant Schmitz PE
Senior Civil Engineer
12 years of experience
Certifications: Professional Engineer (CA)
Grant engineering and planning experience with a demonstrated history of quality design and project management for a diverse range of multifaceted projects. He has extensive experience designing and managing recreation, municipal, and transportation projects. These projects include multimodal transportation projects; shared use paths and bike trail projects; recreation projects; watershed-wide stormwater quality projects; stream and river restoration; storm drain systems; sewer and water systems; erosion control systems; commercial, and residential site designs. Projects range in size and complexity from small residential projects to large, multimillion-dollar community development and infrastructure rehabilitations. His engineering experience includes all phases of project development including topographic survey, data collection, basemap creation, concept plan design, facility design, roadway construction, erosion control, engineered design plans and specifications, cost estimates, construction support and oversight, submittal review, and final review of construction. Grant manages the Bishop, California Stantec office and is the primary engineering contact for Stantec in Inyo and Mono Counties.

Alyssa Pepper MPA
Emergency Management Lead & Public Engagement
7 years of experience
Certifications: None
Alyssa is an emergency management specialist who has spent her career working with municipalities and utilities to mitigate risk through design, to prepare for emergencies through plan development and exercise, and to improve emergency response capabilities through after-action reviews and post incident support. provides planning support for all phases of emergency management, including emergency operational planning, recovery planning, exercise design and evaluation, and resiliency planning. Alyssa will coordinate with stakeholders, develop the citywide evacuation plan and manage the emergency management team.

Lauri Benblatt MA, MPH, LPC
Whole Community Planner
25 years of experience
Certifications: Harvard Global Mental Health; Licensed Professional Counselor; Psychological First Aid
Lauri is a Senior Resilience Planner who specializes in the intersection of emergency management and community resilience planning. With deep foundations in equitable, community centered and justice focused practices, her passion for minimizing gaps across policy, strategic planning and targeted implementation is evident through her success in projects that include connecting isolated efforts to leverage assets and strengthen resilience of agencies, communities and businesses alike. Specializing in

locational and cultural informed engagement needs and resources, she has led planning efforts throughout US with multi-sector response and recovery engagements, including communities in underresourced and disadvantaged areas; designed and implemented organizational needs and readiness assessments internationally and throughout the US; led targeted preparedness and strategic planning efforts; and more. As such she specializes in engagement throughout the private and public sectors, in the development of metrics and equitable implementation of research tools, and in the development of protocols, disaster plans, and a breadth of resources for government entities and community leaders alike. Lauri will coordinate with community and external stakeholders, manage the public outreach strategy and identify special populations.

Tim Ward GISP
GIS Specialist
17 years of experience
Certifications: GIS Professional
Tim developed and maintains a FEMA geodatabase, map layouts, and web mapping portal for the FEMA's Building Code Effectiveness Grading Schedule (BCEGS) program. The program identifies hazard risk for floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, and tornados for the United States. The data and web portal show all jurisdictions at risk for each hazard and which counties have adopted building codes to prepare for hazards. Tim also Timothy put together a geodatabase to assist with efficiency on calculating impacts in 20 highway corridors and is currently working on an inundation study for two potential dam breaches in Colorado. He is using Hec-Ras and LiDAR data to determine flood areas and depths in relation to nearby communities and structures. Over the past 17 years, Tim has developed GIS mapping for local, state and federal clients. For this project Tim will develop GIS overlays, maps, figures and tables for the evacuation plan and community outreach material.

Monica Plumb MPS
Emergency Management Planners
5 years of experience
Certifications: None
Monica Plumb is an Emergency Management Specialist with a background in supporting diverse clients, including local government agencies and healthcare institutions. She specializes in the development and implementation of emergency preparedness training, exercises, and comprehensive plan reviews and updates. Monica is passionate about enhancing communication strategies during emergencies, with a focus on automated notification systems and building communication redundancies to ensure resilience. She is a member of the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) and the California Emergency Services Association (CESA), reflecting her commitment to professional development and collaboration within the emergency management community. For this project Monica will review the citywide evacuation plan, provide meeting minutes and schedule meetings.

Danielle Althaus
Logistics Support
11 years of experience
Certifications: None
Dani is an environmental planner with experience preparing and managing the preparation of California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) documents, Proponent’s Environmental Assessments, and permit applications for all types of projects, including utility, transportation, renewables, and community development projects throughout California and Nevada. She also manages emergency management projects and general plan updates. For this project, Danielle will review CEQA regulations during the planning process, assist with community outreach and review hazards for the City.

Allison Pyrch PE, GE
Subject Matter Expert Lead
23 years of experience
Certifications: Professional Engineer (CA, CO, HI, ID, NV, OR, WA), Geotechnical Engineer (CA, OR)
Allison manages the geotechnical aspects of projects for commercial, industrial, infrastructure, residential, and transportation clients. In addition to her geotechnical experience, Allison is on the leading edge of resilience planning and engineering in the Pacific Northwest through her work with national engineering associations and safety agencies. She is a recognized expert on the Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ) scenarios and her work on CSZ resilience has led her to be a bridge between emergency management and engineering for all hazards. Allison specializes in helping communities assess, develop, and prioritize resilience improvements and adaptations and incorporate infrastructure considerations into emergency planning. She chairs the Oregon Seismic Safety Policy Advisory Committee and has led the disaster reconnaissance committee for at the Infrastructure Resilience Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers focusing on lifeline damage and its effects on community response and recovery. She focuses on infrastructure resilience and its impacts on emergency response and recovery, bridging the gap between public works and emergency management. Allison’s work at the state level includes state level resilience planning as well as project experience in statewide vulnerability assessment and planning projects. For this project, Allison will provide expertise on geological hazards and lead the subject matter expert team.

Thad Wasklewicz PhD
Debris Flow Expert
33 years of experience
Thad leads Stantec’s US Geohazards and Geomorphology Group within the Environmental Services Division. He is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of geohazards, geomorphology, and geomatics with 33 years of experience. Thad applies high-resolution topographic data collection, processing, mapping, and analyses as well as 2D modeling to assess and manage environmental hazards. He is an expert in debris flows, debris flow modeling, alluvial fans, and hillslope-channel coupling. He is also building project-based experience in pipeline geohazards, mining geohazards, mining

closure, and large wood transport to reservoirs. For this project, Thad will provide expertise on debris flows and provide models for the City.

Jon Keeling CFM
Flood Expert
32 years of experience
Certifications: Professional Engineer (AZ, FL, GA, HI, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MO, NC, OH, SC, TX, VA), Certified Flood Plain Manager
Jonathan specializes in water resource and geotechnical engineering of flood protection, transportation, stormwater drainage, and public infrastructure projects; planning, coordinating and supervising subsurface explorations, levee and earth dam condition surveys/evaluations/assessments, hydraulic and hydrologic modeling, floodplain modeling and management, construction monitoring and inspection, construction plans, specifications and bid document preparation; dam breach and seepage analyses, and earth dam/levee and embankment design. He serves as a Dam Safety Subject Matter Expert for FEMA National Dam Safety Program, providing technical support on various dam safety issues, risk prioritization, dam safety training, and emergency response. For this project, Jon will provide expertise on urban flood hazards, riverine floods dam failures and address evacuation concerns for riverine and dam failure.

Michaela Bartosh
Wildfire Expert
10 years of experience
Certifications: None
Michaela is a US Coast Guard veteran who has experience organizing and participating in complex emergency management strategies and procedures and conducting search and rescue (SAR) missions. She is a project manager who has adapted communication, problem-solving, and conflict resolution skills gained during military service to effectively lead project teams and deliver valuable project outcomes to clients. Michaela is proficient at building trust, managing multiple challenging and evolving tasks simultaneously, and resolving conflicts safely and rapidly. For this project, Michaele will provide expertise on wildfire response, evacuation protocols, wildfire mitigation techniques and wildland-urban interface concerns.

Figure 4. Organizational Chart
Staff Member Hourly Rate
Matthew Lieuallen $264
Zane Beall $250
Daven Solis $237
Alyssa Pepper $226
Monica Plumb $226
Daniella Althaus $214

Staff Member Hourly Rate
Victoria Edington $250
Brent Hypnarowski $237
Grant Schmitz $250
Tim Ward $198
Allison Pyrch $250
Thad Wasklewicz $302
Michaele Bartosh $226
Jon Keeling $264
Section 5: Proposed Budget
Stantec’s proposed cost for this project is $125,000 with an estimated breakdown of costs presented in the table below.

Step Task Name Cost
Task 1 Project Management and Coordination $15,000
Task 2 Review of Existing Conditions and Documents $15,000 Task 3 Hazard and Evacuation Analysis $25,000
Task 4 Special Populations and Access Considerations $15,000 Task 5 Evacuation Strategy and Procedures $27,500
Task 6 Public Communications and Implementation
Framework
$17,500
Task 7 Community Engagement and External Agency
Coordination
$17,500
TOTAL $130,000
We would be happy to review this scope of work and cost for opportunities to better align with your available resources and desired outcomes for the project. For your convenience, Stantec’s standard terms and conditions are attached to this proposal. If these terms are acceptable, all that is required is to

sign and return this proposal, and our team is prepared to move forward with this effort. If the Department prefers to use its own terms and conditions, please provide those at your earliest convenience and we will facilitate contract review.

Please do not hesitate to reach out to our deputy project manager, Daven Solis, with any questions and we look forward to collaborating with you and the Department on this important effort.

Section 6: References and Sample Work
Our team excels in in emergency preparedness planning, response, and recovery activities, as highlighted in projects such as emergency planning, mass care and shelter, hazard mitigation planning, evacuation planning, and emergency action planning. Further, our emergency management experience is directly augmented by specialized teams that include Stantec’s transportation team. They’re comprised of traffic engineers, and GIS experts who provide innovative services to organizations that face emergency management, transportation modeling, and environmental challenges.

The Stantec team brings this project a depth of expertise in disaster planning. Some highlights of our recent experience include:
• Statewide Critical Infrastructure Emergency Action Plan Updates, Confidential Client, California (2022 - Present) – In support of one of the largest statewide infrastructure owners in California, Stantec has provided multi-year support to stand up an emergency preparedness program. In addition, Stantec serves as a technical lead and lead author for their dam emergency action plan updates for the field divisions. These plans are used to identify areas that can be affected by the loss of water and specify pre-planned actions to be followed to minimize property damage, potential loss of infrastructure and water resources, and potential loss of life because of failure or mis-operation of a dam.

Statewide Critical Infrastructure Emergency Action Plan Updates Reference David Panec, Manager [email protected]
1416 Ninth Street, Room 604-9
Sacramento, CA 94236-0001
916-902-6915
• Statewide Critical Infrastructure Training and Exercise Program, Confidential Client, California (2022 - Present) – Stantec coordinated with the statewide infrastructure owners to test their emergency action plans, inundation modeling and response to emergencies across California. Scenarios pertained dam failures and evacuating local populations to safe areas.

Stantec collaborated with internal and external partners and created numerous tabletop and operational based exercises across the state including in Los Angeles. Riverside and San Bernardino Counties. These increased in complexity over the years and improved the client’s alert and warning procedures, evacuation planning and emergency response guides.

Statewide Critical Infrastructure Training and Exercise Program Reference David Panec, Manager [email protected]
1416 Ninth Street, Room 604-9
Sacramento, CA 94236-0001
916-902-6915

• City of Arvada Evacuation Plan (2023 -2024) - In coordination with the Leyden Rock Metropolitan District Board of Directors, the City of Arvada partnered with Stantec to conduct an Emergency Preparedness Study on Leyden Rock’s emergency preparedness and transportation network capabilities. The study consisted of a multifaceted approach including an analysis of existing emergency plans and procedures, a traffic impact analysis to assess the capacity of the existing roadway network, and public engagement meetings and surveys, culminating in a final report and improvement plan, to be implemented by the city. The improvement plan took into consideration the efforts being conducted in parallel by the City of Arvada and the Arvada Fire Protection District, including the Community Wildfire Protection Plan and Vegetation Management Plan.

City of Arvada Evacuation Plan Reference
John Firouzi, Transportation and Mobility Manager [email protected] 645 Holbrook Street. P.O. Box 750. Erie, CO 80516 303-926-2700 • Douglas County Emergency Operations and Evacuation Management Plan (2023 – 2023) - The Stantec team supported Douglas County, Oregon on a comprehensive update of the County’s Emergency Operations Plan (EOP), including a focused effort to enhance the County’s approach to evacuation management Stantec developed evacuation phases and re-entry phases and profiled the types of evacuees based on population modeling. The team created Evacuation Assembly Points and Evacuation Respite Sites to help facilitate safe evacuation procedures. The project was completed in 2023 and included a tabletop exercise to validate the updated plan.

Douglas County Emergency Operations and Evacuation Management Plan Reference Emily Ring, Emergency Manager [email protected] 1036 SE Douglas Avenue
Roseburg, OR 97470
541-440-6025
• Kansas Department of Transportation – Resilience Improvement Plan (2023 – 2025) - The Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) wanted to develop a resilience improvement plan for their roadways and associated infrastructure The plan includes a statewide vulnerability assessment. We used our in-house program to score over 10,500 bridges and culverts, and 10,000 miles (16,093 kilometers) of roadway, against nine natural hazards for current and future conditions. By conducting a robust engagement process, we helped KDOT shape their vision for a resilient transportation network. We developed internal KDOT training materials, including video scripts, to continue building KDOT’s resilience program. Additionally, we facilitated a supplemental evacuation activity to examine KDOT emergency capabilities and identify areas for enhancement. For project development, we created an evaluation matrix with vulnerability assessment data and key demographic indicators and solicited input to identify focus areas. We then determined projects and programmatic actions to address vulnerabilities in each focus area and created a prioritization framework to rank projects and guide future selections.

Kansas Department of Transportation – Resilience Improvement Plan Reference Calvin Reed, Acting Secretary of Transportation [email protected] 1006 N. Third St. 312 S. Second / P.O. Box 350. 785-296-2270

Appendix A.

Resumes

Douglas County Emergency Operations and Evacuation
Management Plan | Project Manager
Zane managed a combined project for Douglas County, Oregon to update the County’s Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) and develop a new Evacuation Management Plan, providing an integrated framework to strengthen preparedness and response across the county. In this role, he coordinated directly with county leadership, emergency management staff, and partner agencies to gather input, assess existing capabilities, and align plan content with Oregon state guidance and FEMA CPG 101 standards. Zane oversaw the planning team in revising the EOP to reflect updated hazards, operational structures, and coordination processes, while simultaneously leading the development of a tailored Evacuation Management Plan that addressed decision-making triggers, transportation and sheltering logistics, and public communication strategies. He facilitated stakeholder workshops to validate draft materials and build operational ownership, ensuring both plans were practical, actionable, and interoperable. The final deliverables provided Douglas County with clear, modernized guidance for managing emergencies and conducting safe, coordinated evacuations during large-scale incidents.

Wildfire Incident Specific Response Plan Template |
Project Manager
Zane served as the Project Manager and Quality Reviewer for the development of the Wildfire Incident Specific Response Plan (ISRP) Template to be used across the California American Water systems.

Stantec reviewed existing emergency response plans and incident specific plans to assess the existing content and/or gaps in the documentation. As the project manager, Zane guided the scope, schedule and budget of the project, while also providing guidance on template structure and content. As a value add, Stantec provided a template for future After-Action Report to create a low barrier to entry and to simplify formal debriefs following all exercises and incidents.

California Department of Water Resources Emergency
Preparedness Program Project | Technical Lead
Zane has supported the California Department of Water Resources’ State Water Project (SWP) Emergency Preparedness Program (EPP) in advancing statewide readiness through structured capability assessments, collaborative planning, and the identification and scoping of actionable initiatives. Serving as a core planning lead, he worked closely with SWP leadership, field divisions, and external partners to evaluate existing emergency management capabilities, benchmark practices against state and federal guidelines, and surface key operational gaps.

He facilitated workshops and planning sessions to prioritize needs and build consensus around high-value actions, ranging from governance improvements and continuity planning to dam safety preparedness and communications protocols. Zane translated these findings into a sequenced portfolio of initiatives and tools designed to strengthen the SWP’s ability to manage complex hazards and sustain water deliveries during emergencies. His work has provided the foundation for multi-year program development, guided executive decision-making, and directly supported the EPP’s mission to align resources, plans, and partnerships across one of the nation’s largest and most complex water systems.

Zane Beall
MPA
Project Manager
Stantec
14 years of experience
Master of Public Administration
Bachelor of Arts, Environmental Studies
A project manager and emergency
planner for Stantec, Zane has over a
decade of professional experience
providing clients with thoughtful advice,
engaging stakeholder facilitation, and final
deliverables of the highest quality.

Zane provides planning support for all
phases of emergency management
including mitigation planning, emergency
operational planning, recovery planning,
exercise design and evaluation, and
resiliency planning. Zane brings
emergency planning best practices from
around the country to every project he
supports.

Fully trained in Incident Command
System/National Incident Management
System (ICS/NIMS), Zane has managed
projects for local, county, tribal, and state
organizations and is experienced in
facilitating stakeholder workshops to
identify project needs and align them with
available resources.

Transportation System Resilience Study and Evacuation
Tabletop Exercise | Subject Matter Expert
Matthew currently served as a subject matter expert on emergency management for Stantec’s support to the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) to develop a Resilience Improvement Plan to identify projects to enhance the resilience of the state’s transportation system under the United Department of Transportation’s Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-saving Transportation Program (PROTECT). Matthew provided subject matter expertise specific to strategies associated with emergency response and evacuation management including coordination with the Kansas Division of Emergency Management. A key aspect of this support was the design and delivery of an in-person tabletop exercise testing KDOT's ability to respond to an expanding extreme heat / hazardous materials scenario.

State Water Project Emergency Management Plan |
Project Manager and Task Manager
Under Stantec's comprehensive support to the California Department of Water Resources to develop and implement an Emergency
Preparedness Program for the State Water Project, Matthew serves as the task manager for the development of an overarching State Water Project Emergency Management Plan (SWP EMP). The SWP EMP establishes a shared framework for the conduct of activities across all phases of emergency management by SWP Divisions and Offices.

Matthew is responsible for guiding an iterative planning process that integrates feedback from DWR management and operations personnel into a functional planning document that is grounded in state and federal authorities for emergency preparedness and dam safety, establishes clear and actionable roles and responsibilities, and effectively aligns with other SWP emergency management plans (e.g., Emergency Action Plans, Continuity of Operations Recovery Plans).

State Water Project Emergency Preparedness Program |
Project Manager
Matthew serves as the project manager for Stantec’s ongoing support to DWR SWP Division of Operations & Maintenance (O&M) to develop and sustain the SWP Emergency Preparedness Program (EPP). Matthew is responsible for oversight of consultant resources assigned to all EPP Task Orders as well as providing contract management support to the EPP Manager. Matthew has been engaged in the EPP since its inception and, in August of 2020, facilitated an internal process to establish a vision, mission, and guiding principles for the program that laid a foundation for the program’s development.

Matthew Lieuallen
JD
Principal-in-Charge
Stantec
21 years of experience
Juris Doctor
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science
Matthew brings 21 years of experience
working with local, state, tribal, and
private sector on projects that span all
phases of emergency management. He is
trained in the Incident Command System
(ICS) and the National Incident
Management System (NIMS) and has
worked with a range of California
communities in developing operational
plans using the Standardized Emergency
Management System (SEMS). Matthew
has worked with a range of State
agencies to both assess and develop
plans against relevant regulatory
requirements and best practices. A
seasoned presenter, he regularly delivers
planning workshops, facilitates exercises,
and has presented at state and national
level conferences.

City of Pasadena Evacuation Plan * | Project Manager
Daven developed an evacuation plan, created zones and proposed evacuation routes. He created common terminology for alert and warning checklists. Daven addressed the whole community and incorporated evacuation procedures for vulnerable populations. He collaborated with regional stakeholders to address animal and livestock evacuation and determined locations to serve as mass care and shelter sites.

Riverside County Emergency Operations Plan Update *
| Lead Writer
Updated the County EOP to include designated ICS positions in the EOC, reference the national response frameworks and national preparedness goal and current mitigation best practices. Met with County Department heads to understand their intent and include their feedback into the plan.

Incorporated new ICS and NIMS procedures to augment EOC staffing for simultaneous disasters.

San Bernardino County Power Safety Public Shutoff
Plan Update * | Lead Planer
Created a Power Safety Public Shutoff plan for the county and review hazards in wildland urban area interfaces. Developed check-in procedures for vulnerable populations and analysed evacuation procedures for different parts of the county. Drafted re-entry procedures for evacuated residents and provided recommendations for mass care and shelter operations.

Southern California Catastrophic Earthquake Plan * |
Planner
Review plan and determine how Edwards AFB would fall under the catastrophic response. Raise concerns through the chain of command and streamline how defense support to civil authorities would work from the installation. Examine mutual aid agreements and procedures for federal-state integration and deployment of resources.

Installation Emergency Management Plan * | Project
Manager
Update the emergency management plan to match the threats from the hazard vulnerability assessment. Meet new requirements from AFI guidelines. Incorporate after action reports and improvement plans into the document from functional exercises and real-world activations.

Validate the new plan through full scale exercises.
*denotes projects completed while at a previous firm
Daven Solis
Deputy Project Manager
Stantec
10 years of experience
MS, Emergency Services Administration
BS, Criminal Justice
AA, Social Services
Professional Certificate, Emergency Management
and Homeland Security, UCLA Extension
Hazardous Materials Technician
Hazardous Materials Operations
Emergency Management Specialist, CalOES
Homeland Security Specialist, CalOES
Daven has 10 years of experience in the
emergency management sector, which
includes 8 years as a consultant in the
Gulf Coast and Southwestern U.S.,
providing preparedness services to both
private and public sector clients. He has
provided technical and project
management support for emergency
response, the Incident Command System
(ICS), countering weapons of mass
destruction (CWMD), chemical, biological,
radiological and nuclear (CBRN)
response and recovery, mitigation
actions, emergency planning, continuity of
government programs and hazard
vulnerability studies. He has also served
as a leader in disaster response for
federal agencies where he oversaw
implementation of new trainings for exotic
diseases, served on the DOD’s CWMD
and CBRN response teams; updated
hazard mitigation plans and emergency
operations plans in several FEMA
regions; and created exercises for the
DOD, FEMA, DHS, DTRA and CDC.

I-70 Escape Ramp Site Evaluation | VISSIM Modeling
Lead
On this project, Stantec worked closely with CDOT staff to identify and evaluate potential locations for a new future emergency escape ramp on eastbound Interstate 70 as it exits the foothills and enters the Denver Metro area. Victoria was brought into the project once it was identified that an escape ramp located in the median of I-70 would be the most feasible in terms of constructability, cost, and maintenance. Using VISSIM microsimulation software, Victoria was able to test the feasibility of runaway trucks being able to weave across multiple lanes on I-70 to access a ramp in the median. She worked closely with PTV, the developers of VISSIM, to adjust default vehicle parameters within the software to accurately model a runaway vehicle on a steep downhill grade. The model ultimately showed that this weaving maneuver could be possible during an emergency with sufficient advanced warning provided to drivers. CDOT was able to use visualization generated from this model to obtain legislative support for the project and move it forward into design.

MnDOT TH 43 Reconstruction | Multimodal Traffic
Study Lead
Victoria managed the development of a VISSIM microsimulation model of the TH 43/ Mankato Ave corridor. Scenarios analyzed included existing conditions, future year no-build, and two proposed layouts for the corridor: roundabouts and signals. The analysis included complete calibration of the existing conditions model to match field observations of traffic volumes and travel times. Traffic volumes were projected to two future years for the future scenario models, and optimized signal timing was developed for the proposed signalized corridor. The results of the VISSIM analysis assisted the Stantec design team and staff from the City of Winona and MnDOT with selecting the layout to move forward into design.

Coffeen Avenue Corridor Study | VISSIM Modeling
Lead
This project for the Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT) is focused on developing safety and operational improvements along 3 miles of the Coffeen Avenue and Brundage Lane corridors in Sheridan.

Victoria led the development of a VISSIM microsimulation model to assess the existing conditions at 17 intersections and numerous driveways along the corridors. After completion of the calibration and validation process, she then assisted with the development of a list of possible improvements, from raised medians to roundabouts. Specific realistic improvements were selected for further analysis in four different future scenarios of the VISSIM model. The model results led directly to a final list of recommended improvements, which are now under consideration by WYDOT for implementation in the coming years.

Victoria Edington

PE, PTOE
Transportation Lead
Stantec
11 years of experience
BS, Civil Engineering
Certified Professional Traffic Operations Engineer
#5151, Transportation Professional Certification
Board Inc.

Professional Engineer registered in: Arizona,
Colorado, and New Mexico.

Engineer-in-Training #153569, State of California
Victoria is a problem solver. Her work on
traffic engineering and transportation
design projects often reflects this passion,
as she brings innovative, pragmatic
solutions to her clients. She has
completed signal retiming and corridor
studies for the City and County of Denver,
the City of Aurora, and the Colorado
Department of Transportation, providing
easier, safer commutes to Colorado
drivers. Across North America, she has
conducted traffic analyses using VISSIM
microsimulation modeling for projects as
diverse as light rail in Calgary, Alberta,
roundabouts in Winona, Minnesota, and
bus rapid transit in Charleston, South
Carolina. Her additional areas of
expertise include signal design, safety
studies, complete streets, and multimodal transportation analysis. Victoria was recognized by the industry in 2021 by
being named one of the Institute of
Transportation Engineer's 20 Young
Leaders to Follow.

Leyden Rock Metropolitan District Emergency
Preparedness Study | Traffic Engineer
In coordination with the Leyden Rock Board of Directors, the City of Arvada partnered with Stantec to conduct an Emergency Preparedness Study on Leyden Rock’s emergency preparedness and its transportation network capabilities if there were a fire that forces an evacuation of the neighborhood. The study consisted multifaceted approach including an analysis of existing emergency plans and procedures, a traffic impact analysis to assess the capacity of the existing roadway network, and public engagement meetings and surveys, culminating in a final report and action plan to be implemented by the city. Brent analyzed traffic volumes and roadway conditions for a variety of evacuation routes and scenarios. Routes were based on expected volumes during an evacuation and the capacity of adjacent roadways. A sensitivity analysis was completed to determine the number of vehicles each residence would be able to take while evacuating within a given timeframe. Based on results of the analysis, recommendations were made to provide additional emergency accesses to and from the neighborhood as well as use of alternative roadways.

Interstate 70 at Harlan St and Sheridan Blvd Traffic
Safety and Operations Analysis | Project Engineer
Using crash data, provided by CDOT Region 1, along with DiExSys Roadway Safety Systems software direct diagnostic reports, Brent analyzed existing safety at the north and south intersections of I-70 and Harlan St. Using this information, he created a full safety report which detailed safety concerns and crash patterns for which a 30% design concept was based off of. This report included crash analytics as well as comparisons with similar statewide roadways which helped represent the expected number of crashes vs the actual number of crashes at the studied intersections. Proposed intersection improvements were based on observed and prevalent crash patterns, deemed correctable.

Improvement were validated using the USDOT's Crash Modification Factor Clearinghouse which associates a crash reduction factor (percentage) for specific crash types, given each improvement.

Federal Boulevard Corridor Safety Study | Deputy
Project Manager, Project Engineer
As Deputy Project Manager, Brent led all client coordination, public meetings and engineering efforts. Brent incorporated his traffic and safety background to analyze and guide the placement of center raised medians, mid-block pedestrian crossings, a multi-use trail and other corridor improvements. Decisions were collaboratively made with CDOT and thoughtfully presented to the public for feedback. The final deliverable provided a set of recommendations and concept drawings to institute a safer and more walkable corridor.

Brent Hypnarowski
PE
Traffic Engineer
Stantec
10 years of experience
BS, Civil Engineering
Professional Engineer registered in: Colorado and
New York
Brent is fascinated by the ways in which
vehicles interact with their surroundings.

Spending most of his time outdoors, he
understands the difficulties that
Coloradans encounter when traveling to
and from their happy place. With a strong
passion for safety, sustainability and
complete streets, it is Brent's top priority
to weave these themes into innovative
project solutions. As an avid biker and
public transit rider, Brent strives to be an
advocate for green transportation each
and every day.

Laurel Mountain Road Rehabilitation and Sidewalks|
Project Manager
Grant provided civil roadway design and bid support for the rehabilitation of Laurel Mountain Road in Mammoth Lakes, California. The project will rehabilitate 1,800 linear feet of roadway to address the deterioration of existing asphalt pavement, construct new storm water infrastructure, curb, and gutter, and adjust roadway geometrics and roadway striping to formally delineate traffic lanes, on-street parking, and class 2 bicycle lanes. The project will also increase and improve safety by constructing a new pedestrian sidewalk, crossing striping and flashing beacons, as well as ADA accessible ramps.

HSIP Main Street Crosswalks Project| Project Engineer
Grant provided civil design and project management support for the Main Street crosswalk project in Mammoth Lakes, California. The Town acquired funding through the Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) and contracted with Cardno (now Stantec) for design of a new crosswalk and improvements to two existing crosswalks along State Route 203/Main Street. The design included new overhead rapid flashing beacons, early warning detection signals for vehicles, updated crosswalk striping, and expansion of the existing sidewalk to safely provide access to the new crosswalk. The design was located entirely within Caltrans Right-Of-Way and all design components complied with Caltrans standards. The complete design included elements such as minor site grading, slope design, asphalt, and concrete surfacing.

East Bay Regional Park District Tidewater Use Area
Project Manager, Project Engineer
TranSystems provided civil and electrical design and construction support services for new park land on East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) property adjacent to the existing Tidewater Boating Center. The project involved renovating the eight-acre parcel previously leased to Flexi-Van, a truck chassis leasing company, to include Bay Trail realignment, tree massing, picnic areas, meadow areas, a 125-stall parking lot, a boat storage area and a new restroom building. Unique features of this $8M project included raising site grades to meet year 2070 sea-level rise, providing electric vehicle charging stations, and soil surcharging of the site prior to construction of final improvements. Design services included grading and drainage plans and details, stormwater management and treatment, interim grading plan and utility relocation for the initial soil surcharging phase, erosion control plans and details, parking lot and storage yard layout, wet utility design, structural details, construction phasing and implementation of the challenging geotechnical recommendations; site lighting, restroom power, electric vehicle charging station design and new electric service to support the new infrastructure.

New improvements to be completed in 2023. Grant was responsible for all civil design related to grading, stormwater drainage, construction demolition and construction phasing for the site. He worked with the Landscape Architect and EBRPD to find innovative site solutions that would provide a unique solution to a challenging site.

Grant Schmitz
PE
Senior Civil Engineer
Stantec
12 years of experience
BS, Civil Engineering
Professional Engineer registered in California
Grant has over 12 years of engineering
and planning experience with a
demonstrated history of quality design
and project management for a diverse
range of multifaceted projects. He has a
solid professional history of delivering
projects efficiently, meeting and
exceeding the goals and expectations of
public and private clients alike. Grant has
extensive experience designing and
managing recreation, municipal, and
transportation projects. These projects
include multimodal transportation
projects; shared use paths and bike trail
projects; recreation projects; watershedwide stormwater quality projects; stream and river restoration; storm drain
systems; sewer and water systems;
erosion control systems; commercial, and
residential site designs. His engineering
experience includes all phases of project
development including topographic
survey, data collection, basemap
creation, concept plan design, facility
design, roadway construction, erosion
control, engineered design plans and
specifications, cost estimates,
construction support and oversight,
submittal review, and final review of
construction.

Leyden Rock Metropolitan District Emergency
Preparedness Study | Lead Author
In coordination with the Leyden Rock Board of Directors, the City of Arvada partnered with Stantec to conduct an Emergency Preparedness Study on Leyden Rock’s emergency preparedness and its transportation network capabilities if there were a fire that forces an evacuation of the neighborhood. The study consisted multifaceted approach including an analysis of existing emergency plans and procedures, a traffic impact analysis to assess the capacity of the existing roadway network, and public engagement meetings and surveys, culminating in a final report and action plan to be implemented by the city.

Douglas County Emergency Operations and Evacuation
Management Plan | Lead Author
Alyssa served as lead author to draft the county Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) aimed for use in extraordinary situations that exceed day-today capabilities. The EOP is crafted to be scalable to meet the requirements of the situation or where the need for enhanced coordination requires implementation of modified organizational structures to facilitate effective movement of information and resources.

Dam Functional Exercise | Lead Evaluator
Alyssa served as the Lead Evaluator for a full-day, operations-based functional exercise simulating an earthquake that results in imminent dam failure. The exercise was conducted to comply with Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Engineering Guidelines, Chapter VI, Section 6-2.2.6 that requires that all dam owners must complete one comprehensive exercise over a five-year period in each river basin where there is a project required to have an Emergency Action Plan. The exercise included over 60 participants representing federal, state, and local agencies. Through the course of the exercise, the participants deployed inspection teams to assess damages, filled out appropriate incident documentation, followed emergency notification and radio communication protocols, conducted a simulated media briefing, and prepared for a potential evacuation. Alyssa oversaw a team of six (6) evaluators who each were assigned a different Incident Command Team Section to evaluate based on the core capabilities being tested.

Alyssa Pepper
MPA
Emergency Management Lead & Public
Engagement
Stantec
7 years of experience
Master of Public Administration
BS, Geography, Political Science
Alyssa is an emergency planner and fully
trained in the Incident Command
System/National Incident Management
System. She enjoys partnering with
governments and utilities across the
country to understand how they operate,
identify their unique risks and hazards,
and support their efforts to prepare for
emergencies and build more resilient
communities.

While at Stantec, Alyssa has supported
projects across North America—from the
Yukon to Puerto Rico—bringing tailored
emergency planning solutions to diverse
regions and communities. She brings
comprehensive experience in emergency
management, including fuel management
planning, public assistance coordination,
emergency operations planning,
emergency water supply planning, and
after-action reporting—supporting
communities in strengthening
preparedness, response, and long-term
resilience.

Douglas County Emergency Operations and Evacuation
Management Plan | Deputy Project Manager and
Emergency Management Planner
Lauri served as the Deputy Project Manager for the Douglas County, OR EOP update and the development of its’ augmenting Evacuation Playbook. Lauri was a lead author and co-developer of the Plan development, facilitated community engagement to glean and inform content with equity at the forefront, and led ongoing client relations to ensure project deliverables fell within scope. Both documents incorporate assessed hazards and climate related incidents, are meant to be scalable and adaptable to situation related incidents and inform and support the coordination and mutual support structure of response actions, ensuring resource availability and capacity of County and partner agencies, and effective information sharing.

Disaster Fuel Plans for Hood River, Gilliam, Sherman,
and Wasco Counties | Deputy Project Manager
Lauri serves as the Deputy Project Manager for the development of disaster fuel plans for Hood River, Gilliam, Sherman, and Wasco Counties in Oregon, under contract with the Mid-Columbia Economic Development District (MCEDD). The project aims to enhance regional energy resilience by establishing county-specific concepts of operations, roles, and procedures for managing fuel supply disruptions during emergencies. Lauri helps with the coordination of and collaboration with local stakeholders to align planning efforts with the Oregon Fuel Action Plan and ensure compliance with legal requirements. Disaster Fuel Response Plans will support continuity of mission-essential functions and emergency response capabilities in rural communities facing fuel vulnerabilities. Plan development also uses a template-driven approach with county-level customization to meet diverse operational needs while aligning content for efficiencies and improved response actions across the region.

Jackson County Crisis Communications Plan
Development | Project Manager
Lauri is serving at the Project Manager for the County Crisis Communications Plan which serves as an Annex to the County Emergency Operations Plan (EOP). Lauri is also leading the CCP’s content development, which includes facilitated client and community engagement to glean and inform content with equity at the forefront. The CCP incorporates broad and incident specific concept of operations (top risks and climate related hazards) as they pertain to communications and as informed by the County’s 2024 NHMP, and includes operational processes to stand up a JIS/JIC The CCP provides scalable means to inform and support the coordination and mutual support structure of response actions, ensuring crisis communications are timely, efficient, and accessible to vulnerable populations.

Lauri Benblatt

MPH, MA, LPC
Whole Community Planner
Stantec
28 years of experience
Master of Public Health
Master of Arts
Lauri Benblatt, MA, MPH, LPC is a Senior
Resilience Planner who specializes in the
intersection of emergency management,
public health and community resilience
planning and engagement. With deep
foundations in equitable, community
centered and justice focused practices,
her passion for minimizing gaps across
policy, strategic planning and targeted
implementation is evident through her
success in projects that include
connecting silo’d efforts to leverage
assets and strengthen resilience of
agencies, communities and businesses
alike. Specializing in locational and
cultural informed engagement needs and
resources, she has led planning efforts
throughout US with multi-sector response
and recovery engagements, including
communities in under-resourced and
disadvantaged areas; Designed and
implemented organizational needs and
readiness assessments internationally
and throughout the US; led targeted
continuity and strategic planning efforts;
and more. As such she specializes in
engagement throughout the private and
public sectors, in the development of
metrics and equitable implementation of
research tools, and in the development of
protocols, disaster plans, and a breadth of
resources for government entities and
community leaders alike

Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps (DFIRM) Database
Setup | GIS Analyst
Timothy acquired and populated databases for the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) floodplain mapping program. His tasks included populating a FEMA database, editing data, topology, and cartography. Data sources included Census Bureau, local municipalities, and engineering data and models.

Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps (DFIRM) Database
Modernization | GIS Analyst
Timothy rectified and digitized flood insurance rate maps to create a digital database for flood hazard information. The databases were combined with new base data and submitted according to FEMA specs.

FEMA Building Code Effectiveness Grading Schedule
(BCEGS) Reports | GIS Analyst
Tim develops and maintains a FEMA geodatabase, map layouts, and web mapping portal for the FEMA's BCEGS program. The program identifies hazard risk for floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, and tornados for the United States. The data and web portal show all jurisdictions at risk for each hazard and which counties have adopted building codes to prepare for a hazard. The data and web portal is updated every quarter displaying current building codes for all jurisdictions in the United States and US Territories.

National Environmental Policy Act Inventory | GIS
Analyst
Timothy put together a geodatabase to assist with efficiency on calculating impacts in 20 highway corridors. He developed two linked databases and a tool that runs a clipping process for more than 20 GIS layers in a matter of minutes to develop an inventory of various environmental and land use data.

Water Integration and Sustainability Project (WISP),
Parker Water Integration and Design| GIS Analyst
Timothy collected spatial data and maintained a working inventory for project engineers for the Parker Water Integration and Design project. He was responsible for editing data, converting CAD and GIS files, and delivering data to the engineers in a usable format.

Tim Ward
GISP
GIS Analyst
Stantec
18 years of experience
BA, Geography (GIS)
Certified Geographic Information Systems
Professional (GISP) #90121, GIS Certification
Institute
Tim is a GIS Associate with extensive
experience using geospatial technologies
for transportation, environmental services,
hazard mitigation, water resources, and
climate change assessment. He is skilled
at database creation and management,
spatial analysis, field recon and data
collection, cartography, and mobile and
web-based GIS applications. Tim has a
strong working knowledge of Esri ArcGIS
Online Applications such as Field Maps,
Survey 123, Experience Builder, Web
Apps, and Dashboards. Before joining
Stantec, Tim worked at the Monongalia
County Planning Commission where he
maintained and edited parcel data as well
as created map layouts for county officials
and public use. Tim also worked for the
National Park Service at Assateague
Island.

Emergency Response Team * | Lead
Monica released the updated Emergency Response Team (ERT) program which was available to all staff at the over 140 locations throughout Northern California. The educational materials were transitioned from an in-person class to a self-paced PowerPoint recording voiced by Monica. She attended leadership meetings and developed outreach materials to encourage engagement. In addition to the initial training, hands on evacuation equipment training were also required for locations that had them, as well as an optional virtual exercise on power outages. Monica oversaw the ERT members which were volunteers from various departments and locations, ensuring requirements were met and supplies delivered to each person.

Evacuation Equipment Training * | Lead
Monica conducted hands-on trainings with staff at outpatient and office locations on proper use of the Stryker Evacuation Chair and MedSled devices. These involved participants taking a volunteer down the stairs in the device after receiving verbal and visual instructions from her. Monica updated the training materials to include considerations for those with access and functional needs and provided email and printed materials for participants to review. Class size ranged from 2-10 people and was conducted in-person at the personnel's location using their equipment.

Many of the personnel trained by Monica were then approved to demonstrate use of the chair to others in their department. Monica also trained other Emergency Management personnel on how to conduct the evacuation chair trainings.

Functional Exercise After-Action Report
Monica reviewed and compiled materials from a full scale in-person exercise to determine strengths and areas for improvement. She codeveloped the After-Action Report that included findings from a previous tabletop along with the functional exercise conducted with the client.

Monica was present at the exercise and participated as a recorder. *denotes projects completed while at a previous firm
Monica Plumb
MPS
Emergency Management Planner
Stantec
5 years of experience
Masters of Professional Studies, Homeland
Security with Public Health Preparedness
BS, Health Science
AA, Pre-BSN
Monica began her career as an Emergency
Medical Technician, working in the Emergency
Department of a Level 1 Trauma Center while
she obtained her master’s degree in Homeland
Security and Public Health Preparedness. She
is passionate about training and exercises and
has experience in development and conduct of
both. Monica has developed documentation for
tabletop and functional exercises and has
drafted multiple After-Action Reports. She is
dedicated to developing safe, effective, and
engaging exercises that build skills and
relationships. She brings this same enthusiasm
to trainings, which she has conducted inperson and virtually, with a focus on accessibility during trainings.

Monica also has experience and continued
interest in improving communications in
emergency preparedness and response,
including emergency notification systems,
maintenance of physical communication
resources, and communication redundancies.

She has experience developing and updated
various emergency management documents
including emergency action plans, operational
plans, and guides.

Emergency Preparedness Program Assessment |
Emergency Planner
Dani supported the development of an emergency preparedness program assessment based on existing resources and capabilities. She supported the preparation of program assessment workbook development to ensure stakeholders have a useful tool to provide feedback and consider capability gaps that could be strengthened.

City of Asheville Risk & Resilience Assessment and
Emergency Response Plan (AWIA) | Emergency Planner
Stantec is updating the City’s Emergency Response Plan (ERP) to include the review and update of resilience strategies, emergency plans and procedures, mitigation actions, and detection strategies. Dani attended and served as scribe for the training for specific emergency scenarios being conducted with appropriate staff from all departments to review and practice actions associated with the failure of critical assets and prepared incident response plans for the ERP.

Emergency Preparedness Program Support Services |
Emergency Planner
Dani is a team member for the emergency preparedness program and provides emergency management support and coordination. Dani is responsible for supporting table-top and functional exercises throughout California designed to test emergency readiness across dam safety, pumping, and power generation operations. Roles include exercise planning, engagement planning, document preparation, logistics coordination for the exercise, facilitating and recording at the exercises, and preparing after-action reports to document outcomes and recommendations.

Danielle Althaus
Environmental Planner
Stantec
12 years of experience
Master of City and Regional Planning
Bachelor of Arts
Dani is an environmental planner with
experience preparing and managing the
preparation of California Environmental
Quality Act (CEQA) and National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
documents, Proponent’s Environmental
Assessments, and permit applications for
all types of projects, including utility,
transportation, renewables, and
community development projects
throughout California and Nevada. She
also manages environmental compliance
programs and training during the
construction phase of projects.

Earthquake Reconnaissance Chile (2010) and Japan
(2011) | Emergency Planner
Allison travelled with the ASCE Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering to study the effects of the 2010 Maule Chile M8.8 and 2011 Tohoku Japan M9.0 subduction zone earthquakes. The TCLEE team met with local representatives of government agencies that were responsible for lifeline systems such as transportation, electrical, water and wastewater, liquid fuel, and communications. They discussed damage to the systems, successes in the systems, but also the recovery and response operations and difficulties that were experienced. Both trips were invaluable for understanding the need for resilient systems in order to promote community resilience. Allison focused on geotechnical aspects and emergency response both trips.

Oregon Resilience Plan (ORP)| Emergency Planner
The Oregon Resilience Plan (ORP) was written to move Oregon beyond emergency preparedness into resilience from a Cascadia earthquake and tsunami. Allison was a member of the team of 169 volunteers included leaders of the design professions, public agencies, and other stakeholders who recognized the need for a resilience plan. Allison worked with the Energy group and consulted on other portions of the plan from a geotechnical standpoint.

Ko Road Rockfall Mitigation Design | Emergency
Planner
Project manager of rockfall mitigation design for an approximately half mile section of roadway through DLNR lands. The project included photogrammetric and ground-based surveying combined into a single DTM for rockfall analysis. Mitigation measures include rockfall netting, fences and scaling. The project team included in-house
geologist/climbers to collect data, in-house engineers for design, and subconsultants for survey, civil engineering/CAD, fall protection assistance, and subsurface drilling. Design is in progress and expected to be complete by the end of 2014, with construction planned for 2015 or 2016, as funds allow.

National Portfolio Climate Risk Assessment| Subject
Matter Expert
A real estate owner and operator provides innovation spaces crucial for research and development across the U.S. Because of the critical nature of their facilities, they needed to protect their tenants’ work by planning for extreme weather events and other potential climate change impacts.

They also wanted to get ahead of the proposed SEC climate risk disclosure rules. To achieve these goals, they needed climate resilience assessments and mitigation recommendations for more than 150 properties in their national portfolio. Created a specialized vulnerability rating for each property by using flood and wildfire maps, projecting downtime after potential disasters, and estimating potential damage from climate-related perils, such as flooding and wildfires. To develop resilience measures specific to each property to address these vulnerabilities, first identified the most practical, cost-effective mitigation strategies with the highest return on investment. Recommended more extensive mitigations, such as façade waterproofing or raising critical equipment above flood elevations.

Allison Pyrch
PE, GE
Subject Matter Expert Lead
Stantec
23 years of experience
MS, Civil Engineering
BS, Civil Engineering
BA, Mathematics
Professional Engineer, California
Geotechnical Engineer, Oregon
Allison is a geotechnical engineer with 23
years of experience. She manages the
geotechnical aspects of projects for
commercial, industrial, infrastructure,
residential, and transportation clients. In
addition to her geotechnical experience,
Allison is on the leading edge of resilience
planning and engineering in the Pacific
Northwest through her work with national
engineering associations and safety
agencies. She is a recognized expert on
the Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ)
scenarios and her work on CSZ resilience
has led her to be a bridge between
emergency management and engineering
for all hazards. She specializes in helping
communities assess, develop, and
prioritize resilience improvements and
adaptations and incorporate infrastructure
considerations into emergency planning.

She provides a unique skillset focusing on
infrastructure resilience and it’s impacts
on emergency response and recovery,
bridging the gap between public works
and emergency management. Allison’s
work at the state level includes state level
resilience planning as well as project
experience in statewide vulnerability
assessment and planning projects.

Cameron Peak Fire - Post Wildfire Debris Flow Risk
Assessment| Discipline Lead
The Cameron Peak Fire burned 84,443 ha of land in Larimer County Colorado and created a new threat of post wildfire debris flows and floods residents and infrastructure downslope of the burn. Stantec was asked to quantify the hazard and risk to residential houses as a result of the new debris flow threat. Conducted debris flow hazard assessments via computer modeling and develop outputs on debris flow velocity and volume measures used in the design of gabion wall systems to protect local houses other infrastructure. This work involved field assessments, GIS, and conducting interviews with county officials regarding our proposed mitigation designs. As project manager, I served as point of contact between Stantec’s team and local and federal governments scientists and engineers as well as other engineering firms working in the area. We provided mitigation advice and design limitations as model outputs. The model was tested against an actual debris flow in an adjacent watershed (Black Hollow) that tragically took four lives and destroyed five homes. The model accurately predicted the extents and depths of the Black Hollow debris flow.

Physical Modeling of Debris Flow Inundation Following
Wildfires| Project Manager Managed a joint project with the USGS Landslide Hazards Program to examine channel curvature role in avulsion and debris flow inundation.

Remodeled a cutting-edge physical model. Built and tested a new camera capturing system used to provide 4D modeling of the extent and magnitude of debris flow inundation. Our simulations assessed the role of channel curvature on debris flow inundation. Multiple channel curvatures were designed in the runout area of the flume to examine if the avulsion point within the channel meander differed or if the inundation magnitude and spatial extent varied with the different channel curvatures. The experimental results will produce information to apprise the 2D debris flow inundation models, which are used by hazard managers in Southern California following wildfires and assist with early warning systems during rainstorms.

Debris Flow Hazard Assessment | Debris Flow Subject
Matter Expert
Stantec created several debris flow initiation scenarios in GIS and modelled debris flow runout using Stantec’s agent-based landslide model, Debris Flow Predictor. Model results were used to characterize zonal susceptibility along the pipeline. Probability of failure (POF) equations were updated using the respective zonal susceptibility. I helped develop debris flow models scenarios, conducted the debris flow modeling, and wrote a portion of the report.

Thad Wasklewicz
PhD
Debris Flow Expert
Stantec
33 years of experience
PhD, Geography
MA, Geography
BS, Geography
Dr. Wasklewicz leads Stantec’s US
Geohazards and Geomorphology Group
within the Environmental Services
Division. He is an internationally
recognized expert in the areas of
geohazards, geomorphology, and
geomatics with nearly three decades
experience. Dr. Wasklewicz applies highresolution topographic data collection, processing, mapping, and analyses as
well as 2D modeling to assess and
manage environmental hazards. Dr.

Wasklewicz is an SME in debris flows,
debris flow modeling, alluvial fans, and
hillslope-channel coupling. He is also
building project-based experience in
pipeline geohazards, mining geohazards,
mining closure, and large wood transport
to reservoirs. Dr. Wasklewicz was the
recipient of National Science Foundation
Early CAREER Award for his expertise in
geohazards and geomorphology. He was
a Scientist-in-Residence to the USGS
Landslide Hazards Program and was a
visiting Research Scholar at the
University of Tokyo’s Center for Spatial
Science. Dr. Wasklewicz was also past
president of the Geological Society of
America’s Environmental and Engineering
Geology Division.

California Water Project Emergency Preparedness
Program| Technical Advisor
Jon serves as the Technical Lead/Advisor for project team assisting the Division of Operations and Maintenance in the development of an Emergency Preparedness Program associated with dams within the various field divisions of the state water project. Efforts to date have included development of project charter/mission/vision statements, providing suggested program best practices, coordination with stakeholders on design of program elements, and providing technical review/advice on Emergency Action Plans associated with dams within the various field divisions of the state water project. Jon is also serving as a Facilitator for EAP training sessions and tabletop exercises for the Southern and Delta Field Divisions.

NRCS Dam Risk Assessments| Project Manager Jon led the efforts to perform risk assessments for numerous moderate and high hazard dams for NRCS. The primary focus of this work included the development of hydrologic and hydraulic models for dam break analysis to support the determination of failure and risk index values for various loading conditions at each dam and to assist the NRCS in scoring/ranking each dam in terms of repair or rehabilitation needs and risk. Failure and risk indices were developed using USBR methodology and procedures for potential failure modes, including static, hydrologic and seismic conditions. In addition, he directed multi-discipline staff in review of original design parameters, as-built information, and existing conditions at each dam, as well as determination of loss of life estimates and economic, social, and environment impacts due to failure to support risk index development. For those dams with identified deficiencies, Jon assisted in development and preliminary analysis of alternatives for proposed improvements.

McNeely Lake Dam, Emergency Action Plan
Development| Technical Advisor
As a technical lead, assisting the project team in the coordination, development and review of an emergency action plan for this moderate hazard earth dam located in southern Jefferson County, Kentucky. This portion of an overall floodplain mapping and dam breach project will involve coordination with local stakeholders and emergency management officials, preparation of standardized plan documents to address geotechnical, hydrologic and hydraulic issues at the dam and what actions to be taken to reduce or mitigate risks due to failure of the dam, and development of emergency action and evacuation plans downstream of the dam.

Jonathan Keeling

PE, CFM
Flood Expert
Stantec
32 years of experience
MS, Civil Engineering
BS, Civil Engineering
Certified Floodplain Manager, Association of State
Floodplain Managers
Professional Engineer registered in the following
states: Arizona, Florida, Hawaii, Indiana, Kansas,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Missouri,
North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, and Virginia.

Jonathan specializes in water resource
and geotechnical engineering of flood
protection, transportation, stormwater
drainage, and public infrastructure
projects; planning, coordinating and
supervising subsurface explorations,
levee and earth dam condition
surveys/evaluations/assessments,
hydraulic and hydrologic modeling,
floodplain modeling and management,
construction monitoring and inspection,
construction plans, specifications and bid
document preparation; dam breach and
seepage analyses, and earth dam/levee
and embankment design. He has
experience in a variety of commercial
hydrologic and hydraulic models (HEC-1,
HEC-2, SEDCAD, HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS
(steady and unsteady), SWMM,
DAMS2/SITES, NWS DMBRK, HMR52)
and is proficient in the application of
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to
aid in engineering analysis.

Jefferson County Community Wildlife Protection Plan
(CWPP) | Assistant Project Manager
Michaela collaborated with stakeholders (various federal, state, local agencies and organizations, and Tribal members) to support the development of a CWPP that aligns with the guidelines for CWPPs set forth in the 2003 Healthy Forests Restoration Act. She also managed the schedule, budget, and staff.

Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians Community
Wildlife Protection Plan (CWPP) | Project Manager
Michaela collaborated with stakeholders (various Tribal members, federal, state, and local agencies and organizations) to support the development of a CWPP that aligns with the guidelines for CWPPs set forth in the 2003 Healthy Forests Restoration Act. She also managed the schedule, budget, and staff.

Gilpin County Community Wildlife Protection Plan
(CWPP) | Assistant Project Manager
Michaela collaborated with stakeholders (various federal, state, and local agencies and organizations) to support the development of a CWPP that aligns with the guidelines for CWPPs set forth in the 2003 Healthy Forests Restoration Act. She also managed the schedule, budget, and staff.

Poudre Fire Authority Community Wildlife Protection
Plan (CWPP) | Project Manager
Michaela collaborated with stakeholders (various federal, state, and local agencies and organizations) to support the development of a CWPP that aligns with the guidelines for CWPPs set forth in the 2003 Healthy Forests Restoration Act. She also managed the schedule, budget, and staff.

Michaela Bartosh
Wildlife Expert
Stantec
11 years of experience
BS, Foresty
Michaela is a U.S. Coast Guard veteran
who has experience organizing and
participating in complex emergency
management strategies and procedures
and conducting search and rescue (SAR)
missions. She is a project manager who
has adapted communication, problemsolving, and conflict resolution skills gained during military service to
effectively lead project teams and deliver
valuable project outcomes to clients.

Michaela is proficient at building trust,
managing multiple challenging and
evolving tasks simultaneously, and
resolving conflicts safely and rapidly.

Appendix B.

Exhibit A: Non-Collusion Affidavit
Exhibit B: Financial and/or Relational
Disclosure

Exhibit A: Non-Collusion Affidavit

Exhibit B: Financial and/or Relational Disclosure
Stantec has no past or present financial and/or professional affiliations with the City of La Cañada Flintridge or property owners adjacent to the project sites.

CITY OF REDONDO BEACH

TRAFFIC ENGINEERING SERVICES
Traffic Signal Communications and
Network System - Inglewood Avenue

ASSOCIATES
3900 Fifth Avenue, Suite 310
San Diego, CA 92103
800 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 620
Los Angeles, CA 90017

04.01.26 CITY OF LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES FOR

DEVELOPMENT

OF A CITYWIDE

EVACUATION PLAN

MOBILITY

SOLUTIONS

FOR OUR

CHANGING
WORLD

ATTN: ARABO PARSEGHIAN
Assistant City Manager
City of La Cañada Flintridge
One Civic Center Drive
La Cañada Flintridge, CA 91011
Wednesday, 04.01.26
Dear Arabo and members of the selection committee:

Chen Ryan Associates, Inc. dba CR Associates (CRA) is pleased to submit this proposal to provide professional consulting services for the development of a Citywide Evacuation Plan for the City of La Cañada Flintridge. Preparing a comprehensive, implementable evacuation plan for the City requires an experienced, multidisciplinary team and a methodical, data-driven approach. CRA is recognized for delivering high-quality, actionable plans through a hands-on, boutique level of service that integrates our team closely with client staff, resulting in more effective and implementable outcomes.

We have assembled a senior-level team with expertise in transportation planning, evacuation analysis, fire protection, and emergency operations to address the complexity of this effort. We understand that this plan must extend beyond a policy document. It must be implementable under real-world emergency conditions and lead to measurable improvements in La Cañada Flintridge’s wildfire preparedness and evacuation capability.

CRA’s engagement will be led by Adam Chase, PE, TE, who will serve as Principal-in-Charge throughout the project. Adam brings a unique combination of technical expertise and real-world emergency operations experience. As Deputy Public Works Director for the City of Malibu during the 2018 Woolsey Fire, he was embedded in the Emergency Operations Center under unified command, making time-sensitive decisions related to roadway closures, emergency routing, and evacuation access under rapidly evolving conditions. This firsthand experience, bridging the gap between planning assumptions and operational realities, will directly inform CRA’s technical approach, ensuring that all deliverables are both analytically rigorous and operationally implementable by law enforcement, fire, and public works personnel.

CRA understands that La Cañada Flintridge is entirely within a Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone and presents unique constraints, including the Interstate 210 corridor, hillside residential networks, and concentrated school locations. Accordingly, the evacuation plan must be legally compliant, operationally feasible, and formally adoptable. Our team brings deep familiarity with California’s regulatory framework, including AB 747, SB 99, Government Code §8593.3, and Cal OES Access and Functional Needs guidance. Adam’s experience conducting post-incident evacuation evaluations following the Woolsey Fire, including analysis of network bottlenecks, evacuation behavior, and interagency coordination, will guide how CRA interprets modeling results and translates them into strategies grounded in real-world system performance.

Central to CRA’s approach is a modeling framework that moves beyond conventional worst-case assumptions.

While we have extensive experience with both travel demand modeling and microsimulation, our methodology emphasizes realistic and probable evacuation conditions. We will leverage AI-supported GIS Network Analyst tools in combination with PTV Vissim microsimulation to evaluate network capacity, safety, and emergency response performance across a range of hazard and background traffic scenarios. Rather than assuming total Proposal for Professional Services - Development of a Citywide Evacuation Plan 3900 Fifth Avenue, Suite 310 • San Diego, CA 92103 • www.cramobility.com

ASSOCIATES

system failure, this approach supports pragmatic analysis and the identification of targeted, measurable improvements. The analysis will integrate risk factors, historical fire behavior, population distribution, vehicle ownership, and demographic characteristics to identify high-risk zones, evacuation bottlenecks, and vulnerable infrastructure, while also assessing access to shelters, resilience hubs, and alternate routes.

CRA will utilize Vissim with Dynamic Traffic Assignment to simulate multiple evacuation scenarios and capture congestion dynamics and behavioral responses under stress conditions. Vissim’s ability to model individual vehicle interactions and network constraints makes it particularly well suited for evaluating evacuation performance in constrained environments such as La Cañada Flintridge. The model outputs will be used to derive roadway capacity and impedance relationships, which will then be incorporated into GIS-based iterative modeling to estimate evacuation times at a zone-specific level. This hybrid approach enables the City to move beyond a one-time study by establishing a scalable analytical framework that supports future scenario testing. In essence, Vissim will be used to approximate real-world evacuation behavior, and those results will be translated into tools the City can continue to use over time.

CRA has structured this proposal to be both fiscally transparent and scalable. The Base Scope provides a compliant, adoptable plan within the City’s current budget, including one catastrophic wildfire scenario modeled in Vissim with Dynamic Traffic Assignment and a SB 99 single-egress parcel inventory. Optional Tasks are clearly defined, separately priced, and independently authorizable, allowing the City to expand the scope as funding becomes available. This structure supports immediate compliance needs while maintaining flexibility for future enhancements toward a more comprehensive, multi-hazard evacuation framework.

The undersigned is authorized to bind CRA to this proposal. Our team is committed to the project schedule, available for interviews between April 20 and April 24, 2026, and prepared to initiate work upon contract award, with an anticipated start date of May 6, 2026.

Sincerely,
3900 Fifth Avenue, Suite 310 • San Diego, CA 92103 • www.cramobility.com

CR ASSOCIATES
Phuong Nguyen, TE
Project Manager
619.756.3868
[email protected]
Adam Chase, PE, TE
Principal-in-Charge
805.630.3763
[email protected]
We acknowledge receipt of Addendum 1.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Firm Qualifications & Experience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Project Understanding & Approach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Proposed Schedule. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Key Personnel & Rates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Proposed Budget. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 References & Sample Work. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Appendix A - Resumes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Appendix B: Exhibit A – Non-Collusion Affidavit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

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FIRM OVERVIEW
Firm Qualifications & Experience
Founded in 2011, Chen Ryan Associates, Inc. dba CR Associates (CRA) is a mobility and transportation consulting firm with over 60 engineers and planners working from offices in Los Angeles and San Diego, California. CRA is a DBE, WBE, SBE, CBE, and MBE certified firm committed to planning and designing transportation systems that create and support vibrant, safe, and sustainable communities.

What sets CRA apart in emergency evacuation planning is the depth of our direct, hands-on experience. With more than 30 evacuation analyses completed across California, CRA brings a practitioner-level understanding of the physical, operational, and behavioral factors that shape real-world evacuation performance, including how roadway geometry, access redundancy, and land use patterns influence outcomes in wildland-urban interface communities. Equally important, we understand how evacuations are managed in practice, including unified command structures, interagency coordination, and the sequencing of evacuation orders across fire, law enforcement, and public works. As a result, our analyses are grounded in how evacuations actually unfold, accounting for phased zone activation, shadow evacuation behavior, access and functional needs populations, shelter-in-place strategies, and the cascading effects of congestion on response and public safety.

A defining strength of CRA’s approach is our understanding of how everyday street design and emergency evacuation intersect. While traffic calming and active transportation improvements are often perceived as being in tension with evacuation capacity, our experience demonstrates that when thoughtfully designed, they can complement and enhance system performance. Roadway reconfigurations, controlled intersections, enhanced pedestrian crossings, and multimodal corridor improvements can reduce friction points and create more predictable driver behavior under emergency loading. Many of these same improvements also create opportunities for flexible emergency use, including shoulder running, temporary traffic control, and managed flow operations that increase effective capacity and improve clearance times. CRA evaluates a comprehensive range of evacuation performance strategies, including traffic operations, geometric improvements, signal timing and control, demand management, evacuation phasing, and multimodal network enhancements, to develop an integrated and scalable toolkit tailored to each community’s unique constraints and risk profile. Our in-house team of traffic signal design engineers and ITS specialists ensures that planning recommendations translate into field-deployable solutions, including evacuation-specific signal timing, system interconnectivity and remote control, emergency vehicle preemption, dynamic message signage, and real-time traffic management. Supported by multidisciplinary capabilities spanning planning, modeling, engineering, and grant writing, CRA advances projects from concept through implementation while prioritizing equitable outcomes that address the needs of vulnerable populations and ensure evacuation strategies are practical, inclusive, and actionable.

Specialized Areas
of Expertise
Multimodal Planning,
Analysis, and Design
Mobility/Circulation
Element Planning
Civil Engineering and
Design
Traffic Engineering Design
Traffic Calming Planning
and Design
Traffic Operations and
Simulation
Safety Studies
Safe Routes to School/
Transit
Transit Planning and
Operations
Transportation Impact
Studies
SB 743 Implementation
Transportation Impact Fee
Program Development
Parking Assessment and
Demand Management
Curbside Management
CR Associates has never been found
guilty or liable of any civil or criminal
litigation.

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RELEVANT PROJECT EXPERIENCE
The projects listed below reflect CRA’s direct experience in wildfire evacuation planning, microsimulation-based analysis, and preparation of evacuation documentation for public agencies and private projects across California.

These examples are particularly relevant to La Cañada Flintridge, including hillside communities with constrained access, Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone conditions, and the need for coordinated, implementable solutions that support CEQA review.

CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA
CR Associates prepared a citywide evacuation analysis for the City of Claremont in direct response to the requirements of California Assembly Bill 747 and Senate Bill 99, conducting an area-wide assessment that encompassed all hazard zones identified in Claremont’s Local Hazard Mitigation Plan, including wildfire, earthquake, and dam failure scenarios, to ensure comprehensive coverage of the city’s full evacuation system rather than any single corridor or neighborhood. The analysis utilized PTV Vissim with Dynamic Traffic Assignment run across 100 simulation replications per scenario to achieve statistical convergence and produce highly defensible clearance time estimates, while also applying the 2025 California Fire Code’s Appendix D standards and vehicle generation rates derived from U.S. Census data and conservative field-validated buffers to accurately represent evacuation demand across residential and institutional land uses including the Webb Schools. All findings and single-access-point deficiency maps were developed in coordination with the City of Claremont and aligned with the City’s existing emergency planning framework, providing law enforcement, fire, and public works agencies with actionable, quantified data on congestion hot spots, constrained egress neighborhoods, and targeted mitigation strategies to inform both near-term operational decisions and long-term Safety Element policy.

City of Claremont Evacuation Analysis

CITY OF CLAREMONT
Brad Johnson
Community Development Director
Community Development
Department
[email protected]
909.399.5342
2024 - 2026

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City of Claremont
Evacuation Analysis for California Assembly Bill (AB) 747 and Senate Bill (SB) 99 Figure 5
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Access Point for Evacuation
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or More Dwelling Units
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ANAHEIM HILLS, CALIFORNIA
CRA P#2025.210
CR Associates and Dudek prepared a comprehensive area-wide wildfire evacuation capacity analysis for the Anaheim Hills study area on behalf of the City of Anaheim, evaluating six scenarios across both catastrophic mass-evacuation and operationally realistic area-specific wildfire conditions, covering 15 discrete evacuation zones and over 61,000 evacuating vehicles under worst-case assumptions, to provide the City with a full-spectrum, defensible understanding of network performance across the entire hills community rather than any single project or corridor. The analysis leveraged PTV Vissim microscopic simulation under Dynamic Traffic Assignment run to full convergence, incorporating phased evacuation logic, shadow evacuee behavior, early departure by vulnerable senior populations, and cumulative land use conditions consistent with guidance from the California Office of Planning and Research, the California Attorney General’s Wildfire Guidance, and Appendix Q of the California Fire Code, producing a robust, scenario-bounded dataset of clearance times grounded in observed behavior from recent Southern California wildfire events. All scenarios and optimization strategies were developed in close coordination with the City of Anaheim Traffic Engineering Division, Anaheim Police Department, Anaheim Fire and Rescue, and the City’s adopted Emergency Operations Plan, resulting in a Wildfire Evacuation Clearance Time Optimization Strategy with quantified time savings for each recommended traffic control measure, giving law enforcement and fire agencies a detailed, actionable framework for signal preemption, contraflow deployment, and phased zoneby-zone evacuation order issuance.

Anaheim Hills Fire Evacuation Study

CITY OF ANAHEIM HILLS
David Kennedy, PE
Associate Transportation Planner
Public Works Department | Traffic
and Transportation
[email protected]
714.765.4920
2024 - 2026
Anaheim Hills Fire Evacuation Analysis Page | 12
Technical Memorandum
Figure 3 - Scenario 5 & 6 (Main Report Scenario 3) – Wildfire Scenario 3: Deer Canyon Park Fire (Existing Conditions)

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SANTEE, CALIFORNIA
CR Associates completed a Wildfire Evacuation Plan for the Fanita Ranch Specific Plan, which spans more than 2,600 acres in Santee, California. The Fanita Ranch development is slated to include nearly 3,000 housing units and 80,000 square feet of commercial space, requiring a robust evacuation plan that accounts for both targeted evacuations and large-scale scenarios encompassing over 50% of the city. To achieve this, our team employed a hybrid approach that combines AI-enhanced GIS hazard mapping with dynamic Vissim microsimulations, capturing a broad range of variables, from demographic distributions and nighttime evacuations to contraflow operations and phased departures. By modeling nine distinct wildfire scenarios, including both small-scale and massive citywide evacuations, we identified key congestion points, assessed infrastructure resilience, and formulated data-driven recommendations that optimize evacuation routes, improve traffic flows, and bolster public safety under realistic wildfire conditions.

Fanita Ranch Wildfire Evacuation Analysis

CITY OF SANTEE
Minjie Mei, PE
City Traffic Engineer
[email protected]
619.258.4100 x189
2022 - 2024
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Fanita Ranch Fire Evacuation Analysis
Technical Memorandum
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BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA
CR Associates prepared this wildfire evacuation analysis for UC Berkeley’s Cal Softball Field Renovation Project, a competitive athletic and recreational facility located at the edge of the Berkeley Hills wildland-urban interface, adjacent to High and Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zones. The analysis was conducted in support of the project’s Environmental Impact Report under CEQA and focused on a Diablo winddriven wildfire scenario, representing the most critical and likely large-scale evacuation condition in the East Bay hills.

Using PTV Vissim microsimulation, the team evaluated 18 evacuation scenarios across weekday and weekend conditions, existing and cumulative development, and targeted hillside evacuations. The analysis accounted for up to 1,603 spectators and facility users evacuating concurrently with surrounding hillside residents, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory employees, Tilden Park Golf Course visitors, and Witter Rugby Field attendees.

The modeling framework was grounded in Zonehaven targeted evacuation protocols used by Alameda County and the City of Berkeley and informed by Emergency Operations Plans from all three jurisdictions.

In addition to traffic modeling, the study evaluated shelter-in-place strategies within fire-resistant campus buildings as a means to reduce demand on constrained evacuation corridors.

Cal Softball Field Renovation Wildfire
Evacuation Analysis

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,

BERKELEY
Shraddha Navalli Patil, PhD
Senior Planner
Physical & Environmental Planning
UC Berkeley Capital Strategies
[email protected]
650.223.3433
2023 - 2024
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Project Site
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University of
California
Berkeley
Project Site
Hearst Av
Bancroft Way
Cedar St
Dwight Way
Rose St
University Av
Gayley Rd Piedmont Av
Grizzly Peak Bl
Marin Av
Spruce St
Henry St
Shattuck Ave
ML King Jr Way
College Av
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Claremont Av
Ashby Av
California
Memorial
Stadium
Cal Softball Field Renovation Project Fire Evacuation Analysis Technical Memorandum

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PROJECT UNDERSTANDING
Project Understanding &
Approach
CRA brings over a decade of experience in wildfire
evacuation analysis and hazard mitigation planning
for communities across California, with a particular
focus on jurisdictions in Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zones. CRA’s approach treats evacuation analysis as
a transportation engineering problem: grounded
in data, calibrated against real-world network
performance, and structured so that findings are
directly useful to the law enforcement agencies, traffic engineers, and emergency managers responsible for
implementation.

CRA’s most recent work in this space demonstrates
that commitment in practice. The Anaheim Hills Fire
Evacuation Analysis for the City of Anaheim examined
a community whose hillside terrain, constrained
street network, and multi-vehicle household behavior
closely mirror the conditions in La Canada Flintridge,
evaluating a range of scenarios from catastrophic
areawide evacuations to operationally realistic phased
wildfire events. The City of Claremont Fire Evacuation
Analysis, prepared to support Claremont’s General
Plan Safety Element update for AB 747 and SB
99 compliance, assessed evacuation performance
across Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zones in the
northern foothill neighborhoods, addressed the
unique demand generated by a boarding school
campus within the evacuation area, and identified
single-egress neighborhoods that required targeted
safety policy responses. Both studies applied PTV
Vissim with Dynamic Traffic Assignment and both
were built on the same methodology CRA proposes
here. The physical and regulatory conditions in La
Canada Flintridge are consistent with the types of
communities where CRA has conducted this work, and
the methodology CRA proposes here reflects those
prior engagements.

Geography and Physical
Setting
La Canada Flintridge occupies the western edge of
the San Gabriel Mountains foothills, bounded to the
south by the I-210 freeway and to the north and east
by the Angeles National Forest. This position at the
urban-wildland interface means that fire approaching
from the north or east can reach residential
neighborhoods within minutes under Santa Ana wind
conditions, compressing the available notification
and evacuation window to a degree that demands
extraordinary precision in planning.

The City’s residential street network reflects its hillside character: cul-de-sacs, switchback roads, singlelane sections, and dead-end corridors that serve as the only access to large clusters of homes. Several
neighborhoods have a single point of ingress and
egress, meaning that any blockage, whether from a
disabled vehicle, a downed tree, or fire encroachment
on the roadway, eliminates all evacuation capacity
for those residents. The SGVCOG’s 2025 Regional
Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) identifies
these conditions explicitly, noting that communities
along the northern foothills face limited number,
capacity, and separation of travel routes during
evacuations, high numbers of neighborhoods
with poor access and egress, and road networks
characterized by narrow, winding, and steep roads
with vegetation encroachment, locked gates, and
limited turnaround capabilities. La Canada Flintridge
exemplifies these conditions within the SGV planning
area.

Interstate 210 runs east-west through the southern
portion of the City. Under normal conditions it
offers significant outbound capacity. During a major
evacuation event, however, simultaneous evacuations

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to the east that were devastated in the January 2025
Eaton Fire, can saturate I-210 and sharply reduce its
utility as an evacuation route. The SGVCOG draft
CWPP acknowledges the shared reliance of SGV
communities on I-210, I-10, and SR-57 as key eastwest travel routes, noting that the high baseline traffic conditions on these corridors present significant
challenges during large-scale evacuations. CRA’s
analysis will explicitly model this freeway interaction.

Wildfire History and Risk
Context
La Canada Flintridge and its surrounding communities
have been tested by wildfire repeatedly over the past
two decades, and the operational record of those
events is a primary input to CRA’s analytical approach.

Each major fire since 2009 has added to the body of
documented evidence about how communities at
this urban-wildland interface actually behave under
evacuation conditions, how agencies coordinate and
where coordination breaks down, and how the gap
between planned response and field reality manifests
under extreme wind and fire conditions. CRA’s project
team will review all relevant after-action reports from the fire siege of 2020 forward, compile a structured
summary of actions taken, evacuation behaviors
observed, notification timing, agency coordination
outcomes, and traffic and network performance
findings, and present the City with a comprehensive
baseline picture of what the documented record says
about evacuation performance in communities of this
type. That summary will serve as both a calibration tool for the simulation model and a reference document for
the operational recommendations.

The 2009 Station Fire established the foundational
risk context for this part of Los Angeles County,
burning approximately 160,000 acres across the
Angeles National Forest immediately north and east
of the City and producing the largest evacuation
in the area’s recent history. The fire exposed
weaknesses in roadway capacity, notification timing,
and interagency coordination that have continued
to inform planning in the region. Fire behavior under
Diablo wind conditions, with rapid upslope runs and
ember spotting ahead of the main front, compressed
evacuation lead times in ways that static planning
assumptions had not anticipated. The 2018 Woolsey
Fire and the 2020 Bobcat Fire each reinforced
the regional pattern of fast-moving, wind-driven
fires placing multiple communities simultaneously
under evacuation order and stretching the shared
transportation and communications infrastructure
across the SGV.

The SGVCOG draft CWPP (2025), provides the most
current quantitative assessment of the risk facing the
City. Among the five ignition scenarios evaluated
across the SGV planning area, the Angeles National
Forest Highway near La Canada-Flintridge scenario
produced the highest projected structural damage
and economic loss, with a projected impact area of
approximately 429,000 acres, over 3,091 structures,
and an estimated $1.4 billion in potential losses under 97th-percentile wind conditions (draft CWPP, Part 4,
p. 134). The draft CWPP also identifies La Canada
Flintridge as one of six SGV communities where at
least 20 percent of land area is classified as moderate or higher fire severity, designating it as a priority
location for fuel management and evacuation planning
(draft CWPP, Part 4, p. 151).

The January 2025 Eaton Fire stands as the most
consequential and instructive wildfire event in the
City’s recent history. Driven by extreme Santa Ana
winds, the fire moved through hillside communities
north of I-210 with a speed and intensity that tested
every element of the region’s emergency response
system, from notification and evacuation coordination
to traffic management and the protection of
vulnerable populations. Its physical footprint reached
the doorstep of La Canada Flintridge, generating
evacuation orders that extended toward the City and
threatening the Jet Propulsion Laboratory within its
boundaries. The Eaton Fire is not merely a regional
reference event; for this community, it is a direct
preview of what a worst-case scenario looks like.

The after-action documentation from the Eaton Fire
is rich and still evolving, and it carries lessons that are directly applicable to La Canada Flintridge. Among

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planned evacuation procedures and field reality
widens sharply under extreme conditions; vulnerable
populations including seniors and congregate
care residents require dedicated, pre-coordinated
evacuation resources rather than improvised
solutions; public compliance is significantly affected
by the quality and timing of official notifications,
and by the misinformation that fills the void when
official communications lag; and evacuation-related
improvements, including traffic management and law
enforcement coordination protocols, remain among
the least-implemented recommendations across the
affected jurisdictions. The Eaton Fire is one chapter
in a longer story of fire events in this region, each of which has added to the understanding CRA brings
to this project. CRA’s project team will review afteraction reports and documented findings from the 2020 fire siege forward, compile a summary of evacuation
behaviors, agency actions, and network performance
observations across those events, and use that
collective record to ground the La Canada Flintridge
Evacuation Plan in the most current and relevant
operational experience available.

PROJECT APPROACH
Modeling Approach:

Vissim with Dynamic Traffic
Assignment
Tool selection is an important step in any evacuation
study. Through experience across multiple projects,
CRA has evaluated and applied a range of platforms,
and CRA’s recommendation of PTV Vissim with
Dynamic Traffic Assignment reflects that experience.

In a standard traffic analysis, vehicles follow stable
routes based on predictable origin-destination
patterns. In an evacuation, route choice is more
fluid and adaptive: drivers respond to real-time
conditions and congestion in ways that static models
are not designed to represent, which makes dynamic
simulation particularly well-suited to this type of
analysis.

Traditional traffic analysis software, the type routinely applied in transportation impact studies and General
Plan circulation analyses, is purpose-built for evaluating everyday traffic conditions under stable, predictable
demand. These tools are well-suited for their intended
applications, but wildfire evacuation analysis presents a fundamentally different set of conditions: route choice becomes fluid and highly adaptive, demand surges
far beyond normal peak levels, and the feedback
between congestion and driver behavior determines
clearance outcomes in ways that static assignment
methods are not designed to represent. CRA has
found that adapting traditional tools to evacuation
conditions requires significant additional assumptions
and calibration effort, and that the results benefit from supplementing those tools with platforms specifically
designed to handle dynamic network loading.

Across all tool choices, CRA prioritizes platforms
where assumptions are fully documented and outputs
are reusable. Every assumption embedded in the
model, from vehicle demand rates and behavioral
response parameters to signal timing and phasing
logic, is recorded in the technical documentation so
that findings can be peer-reviewed, independently
checked, and replicated by others as needed. Vissim
with DTA supports this standard: model files are
portable, inputs are transparent, and the analysis is not locked to a single user or subscription.

Vissim with DTA addresses the core challenge of
evacuation modeling directly. DTA allows vehicles to
dynamically update their route choices in response
to evolving network conditions as the simulation
runs. As congestion develops at bottlenecks, vehicles
divert to alternative routes, replicating the adaptive
behavior observed during real wildfire evacuations
and documented in CRA’s real-event data collection
program. The model is iterated until convergence,
the point at which routing patterns stabilize and

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between runs, producing results that are statistically
stable, reproducible, and defensible under scrutiny.

The SGVCOG draft CWPP’s evacuation modeling
acknowledged the same baseline congestion
challenges that Vissim’s DTA approach is built to
capture, including the finding from draft CWPP
survey data that approximately 63 percent of SGV
households that evacuated from recent fires took two
or more vehicles (draft CWPP, Part 5, pp. 160-161), a
behavioral pattern that static models systematically
underrepresent.

Beyond technical capability, CRA’s recommendation
of Vissim with DTA is driven by a principle that
shapes every tool selection decision: the City must
retain open, unrestricted access to the analytical
work product. A model locked behind a proprietary
subscription creates constraints that extend well
beyond the initial study. Subscription-based platforms
can burden the City’s ongoing budget with recurring
licensing costs, may tie access to a single licensed
user within the agency or its consultant pool, and can
prevent the City from sharing the model with future
consultants, development applicants, or regional
partners who need to evaluate land use changes
or cumulative impacts against the same baseline
assumptions. CRA has seen this dynamic play out in
practice, and it is a structural problem that undermines the long-term value of an otherwise sound technical
analysis.

Vissim model files are not subscription-dependent.

The model CRA will build for this project, with
full documentation of network inputs, behavioral
parameters, demand assumptions, and scenario
configurations, can be exported to standard GIS
formats for use in the City’s existing spatial data
infrastructure, updated directly by City staff or future consultants without ongoing licensing obligations,
and provided to land development applicants or other
evaluators so that future project-level evacuation
analyses use the same network, the same assumptions,
and the same platform as the citywide baseline.

This continuity matters. When a future specific plan
or general plan amendment requires an evacuation
analysis, the applicant and their traffic engineer
will start from the same technical foundation CRA
establishes here, not from a competing tool with
incompatible assumptions. That consistency protects
the integrity of the City’s planning record and ensures that cumulative impacts are evaluated on a level
analytical playing field.

Vissim with DTA is also well aligned with Appendix Q
of the 2025 California Fire Code, which establishes the state’s technical framework for evaluating evacuation
performance in fire-hazard areas. Appendix Q calls
for evacuation analyses to produce defensible
Maximum Travel Time estimates, the time required
for the population in a given hazard area to fully
clear the network under the hazard conditions being
evaluated. These estimates should be grounded in
realistic traffic and behavioral assumptions, account
for varying demand conditions and phased evacuation
strategies, and be documented in sufficient technical
detail to support agency review, CEQA evaluation,
and adoption into a jurisdiction’s General Plan Safety
Element. Vissim with DTA produces zone-by-zone
clearance times under dynamic demand conditions,
accounts for shadow evacuation behavior and multivehicle household assumptions, and generates statistically stable results across multiple model runs, making it a suitable platform for analyses intended to
align with Appendix Q.

The outputs Vissim produces align well with what
Appendix Q looks for. The clearance times CRA
reports by zone, compared against the available lead
time before fire reaches each zone as documented
in the draft CWPP’s hazard analysis, together with
sensitivity testing across signal timing strategies
and phasing assumptions, constitute the type of
Maximum Travel Time analysis Appendix Q calls for.

The same output set also supports the evacuation
capacity evaluation described in AB 747, which
directs jurisdictions to assess their evacuation routes for capacity, safety, and viability, and the singleaccess neighborhood identification described in SB

99. Both the Anaheim Hills and Claremont studies
were prepared in accordance with guidance from the
California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research,
the California Attorney General’s Best Practices for
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and the same approach will be applied here.

CRA has applied Vissim with DTA in the Anaheim
Hills Fire Evacuation Analysis, the City of Claremont
Evacuation Analysis, the Los Gatos Town-Wide
Evacuation Plan, the Ventura Botanical Gardens
Evacuation Analysis, the Fanita Ranch Wildfire
Evacuation Study in Santee, and the Beaumont
Pointe Evacuation Analysis, among others. Across
these studies, the platform has produced results that
are defensible under CEQA and regulatory scrutiny,
interpretable by non-technical decision-makers,
aligned with Appendix Q, AB 747, and SB 99, and
directly actionable by the emergency management
professionals responsible for implementing them.

These characteristics are why CRA recommends Vissim
with DTA for La Canada Flintridge.

Vissim with DTA is a well-established platform for
citywide wildfire evacuation analysis, combining
microsimulation-level behavioral fidelity with
dynamic network-wide route adjustment and
producing convergence-verified clearance time
estimates suitable for emergency planning and
CEQA purposes.

Understanding Wildfire
Behavior and Evacuation
Dynamics
The quality of an evacuation analysis depends
significantly on the assumptions that underpin it.

Clearance times are only as reliable as the hazard
inputs that define the threat timeline, the demand
assumptions that define how many vehicles load the
network and when, and the behavioral parameters
that govern how residents respond. CRA pays
close attention to all three, drawing on research
and operational data to ground each assumption in
available evidence rather than generic defaults.

THE ROLE OF WILDFIRE ASSUMPTIONS IN

EVACUATION ANALYSIS
Wildfire behavior assumptions drive evacuation analysis in two ways. First, they define the hazard timeline, the rate at which a fire approaches a given zone and the
lead time available for notification and evacuation.

An event projected to reach a neighborhood in 30
minutes demands a fundamentally different operational
response than one projected to arrive in 3 hours, and
the adequacy of a given clearance time can only be
evaluated in relation to that lead time. CRA will use
the hazard findings documented in the SGVCOG draft
CWPP to establish this relationship for each evacuation scenario, integrating the draft CWPP’s advance-rate
findings with the Vissim clearance time outputs to
produce the Maximum Travel Time comparison that
aligns with Appendix Q of the 2025 California Fire Code.

Second, fire behavior assumptions affect what demand
conditions are appropriate to model. An area-specific
fire that is confined to one portion of the City warrants a phased evacuation model with a defined set of
immediate, warning, and watch zones and realistic
shadow evacuation behavior in adjacent areas. A
catastrophic wind-driven event of the type the Eaton Fire demonstrated warrants a simultaneous mass evacuation
scenario that stress-tests the network under maximum
possible demand. The gap between these two scenario
types is large, and both are necessary. A plan that
only models the phased scenario may under-prepare
for a fast-moving wind event; a plan that only models
the catastrophic scenario may overstate the typical
operational risk and produce recommendations that are
difficult to implement and impossible to sustain. CRA’s multi-scenario framework is designed to bound this
range, providing the City with a complete picture.

Wildfire assumptions are closely tied to the quality
of the evacuation analysis. Clearance time results,
trigger point recommendations, and phasing
strategies all depend on grounded hazard and
demand inputs, which is why CRA draws on the
draft CWPP’s documented findings and calibrates
behavioral assumptions to available local data.

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EVACUATION BEHAVIOR AND

DESTINATION CHOICE
Evacuation modeling depends on accurate behavioral
assumptions not just for how quickly residents depart
but for where they go, how many vehicles they take,
and how their individual circumstances shape their
response. CRA’s internal research library includes
extensive documentation on these questions, and
the findings consistently show that real evacuation
behavior diverges substantially from the simplified
assumptions embedded in many planning models.

One of the most important behavioral findings,
documented by Wong et al. (2023) in a study of
California wildfire evacuee behavior and joint decisionmaking, is that evacuees do not distribute uniformly to designated public shelters. People choose evacuation
destinations based on their available resources, social networks, and personal circumstances. Those with
the financial means tend to book hotels or temporary
accommodations outside the hazard area, often at
significant distance from the fire. Those with family or friends outside the affected zone typically go there
first. Public shelters serve as the destination of last resort, used primarily by households without other
options. Understanding this distribution matters
for two reasons: it affects the spatial distribution
of evacuating vehicles on the network, since hotel
destinations and family destinations in different
directions produce different traffic patterns than a
single shelter location would, and it affects the degree to which official shelter capacity constraints should
govern evacuation demand modeling. The City should
not assume that shelter capacity limits evacuation
capacity; the data shows clearly that most evacuees
will not use public shelters regardless of capacity.

The same research and CRA’s operational experience
document the multi-vehicle household behavior that
is now a standard feature of evacuation demand
assumptions. Households facing a wildfire threat
typically attempt to move all available vehicles, driven by uncertainty about how long they will be displaced,
the desire to protect property, and the instinct to avoid leaving any vehicle that might be needed behind.

The SGVCOG draft CWPP’s community survey data
confirmed this pattern in the SGV context, finding
that approximately 63 percent of households that
evacuated from recent fires by driving took two or
more vehicles. The Anaheim Hills Fire Evacuation
Analysis applied an average vehicle ownership rate of
approximately 3.4 vehicles per household to generate
a conservative upper-bound demand estimate. CRA
will calibrate this assumption to La Canada Flintridge’s specific household vehicle ownership profile using
U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey
data, producing a demand estimate that is both locally
grounded and appropriately conservative.

Senior populations require specific behavioral
modeling that goes beyond simple demographic
weighting. Research consistently documents that
older adults and those with chronic health conditions,
particularly respiratory or cardiovascular vulnerabilities, are more likely to evacuate early, often before an
official order is issued, due to concern about wildfire smoke rather than direct fire threat. This behavior was observed and documented in the Eaton Fire afteraction review, which noted that LASD and LACoFD personnel were engaged in the evacuation of senior
care facilities, including congregate care communities
in the Altadena and Pasadena areas, within the
first hours of the event, and that vulnerable older
residents who were not monitoring digital alerts due
to technology access limitations faced elevated risk of delayed notification. The operational implication is that senior populations, both those living independently
and those in congregate care facilities, require precoordinated early notification and transportation resources, not because they are slower to evacuate
once they receive an order but because the
consequences of delayed notification are more severe
and because facilities require lead time that general
population assumptions do not capture.

CRA incorporates all of these behavioral dimensions
into the evacuation demand assumptions developed
for each project, drawing on the firm’s internal
research library, on data collected during real wildfire events through CRA’s proprietary Google Routes
API monitoring program, and on the after-action
documentation from the fires most relevant to the
community being analyzed. For La Canada Flintridge,
this means that the behavioral assumptions used in

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shows about how residents in hillside Southern
California communities actually behave during wildfire
evacuations, not generic parameters from planning
guidance that may not reflect local conditions. CRA
will develop these assumptions collaboratively with the City and present them transparently in the technical
documentation, so that the City understands not
just the results but the evidence base and reasoning
behind every assumption that produces them.

Community Engagement
Approach
CRA’s engagement work spans both technical
analysis and community planning. CRA staff include
transportation engineers and planners who are also
experienced facilitators, able to present technical
findings clearly to non-technical audiences, work
constructively with community members who may have
concerns or skepticism, and communicate with elected
officials and agency leaders in a way that connects
analysis to decision-making. This cross-disciplinary
capability matters for evacuation planning, where the
work ultimately has to make sense to the people who
will carry it out and the people who will be affected by it.

Community engagement in evacuation planning
serves two distinct purposes. The first is to present
findings, draft strategies, and recommendations
to the community and to decision-makers, gather
their feedback, and incorporate it into the final plan.

The second is analytical: gathering on-the-ground
knowledge from residents, particularly those in
high-risk or constrained-access areas, to inform the
assumptions and identify conditions that data alone
may not capture. These two purposes call for different
formats and different audiences.

BASE SCOPE
The base scope includes two virtual workshops and
two in-person presentations. The virtual workshops
are structured to present draft findings to City staff, partner agencies, and key stakeholders at key project
milestones and to gather focused input before the
plan is finalized. The in-person presentations bring
the draft and final plan to the appropriate City bodies for formal review and direction. CRA will prepare all
materials, exhibits, and summaries needed to support
these activities.

OPTIONAL TASKS
For communities where direct resident input would
meaningfully improve the analytical foundation of the
plan, CRA offers additional engagement activities as
optional tasks. These include pop-up outreach at hightraffic community locations and in-person workshops targeted at residents in high-risk or single-access
neighborhoods.

The analytical value of these optional activities is real.

In the Anaheim Hills evacuation study, CRA conducted
direct outreach with residents in constrained-access
neighborhoods. Self-reported departure behavior,
route familiarity, and roleplay-based exercises that
produced reaction time estimates were used to
calibrate behavioral assumptions in the evacuation
model. The result was a model grounded in how that
specific community would actually respond, not how
a generic community is assumed to respond. For La
Canada Flintridge, this type of engagement would be
especially useful in single-egress neighborhoods where
clearance time results are most sensitive to departure
timing assumptions. These activities are offered as
optional tasks for the City to weigh against available
budget and schedule.

Agency Coordination
Approach
Evacuation planning depends on accurate knowledge
of how agencies operate in the field, and that
knowledge does not come from written plans alone.

EOC staff and Incident Commanders hold the
most current and practical understanding of how
operations unfold under real conditions, but the roles
and responsibilities across agencies are not always
consistently defined, and gaps or conflicts that go
unaddressed in the planning phase tend to surface at
the worst possible time. A central objective of CRA’s
coordination approach is to surface those gaps early,

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The approach follows three steps: listen first to the
field experts, synthesize what is heard into a coherent operational picture, and then return to validate that
the assumptions CRA proposes to use align with each
agency’s understanding. All coordination is conducted
at the direction of the City’s project manager, and CRA will not initiate agency contact or commit to any scope of coordination without prior City authorization.

LISTENING TO THE FIELD EXPERTS
CRA will conduct structured coordination meetings
with each agency that has an operational role in a La
Canada Flintridge evacuation, approaching each as an
expert in its own domain. The goal is to understand,
from each agency’s perspective, how they expect
operations to work, what they have learned from
prior events, and where they see gaps or concerns.

Agencies include LAFD, LASD, Caltrans District
7, LA County OES, Metro and transit operators,
school district and private school administrators, and
neighboring jurisdiction emergency managers.

As part of this step, CRA will request documentation
from any EOC drills, tabletop exercises, or emergency
operation exercises the City or its partner agencies
have conducted. Notes, after-action summaries, and
exercise plans from these activities capture institutional knowledge that is rarely reflected in formal written
plans, and they frequently surface specific operational timing issues, coordination breakdowns, or resource
constraints that are directly relevant to the modeling
assumptions CRA will develop.

SYNTHESIZING THE OPERATIONAL

PICTURE
After completing agency interviews and the document
review, CRA will synthesize the information into a
working operational framework: who initiates what
action, in what sequence, under what conditions, and
with what resources. This synthesis will be compared
against the draft CWPP’s evacuation assessment
findings and CRA’s proposed modeling assumptions
to identify areas of consistency, areas where agency
perspectives differ, and areas where roles or
responsibilities are undefined. Where inconsistencies
surface, CRA will flag them as items for discussion and resolution rather than resolve them independently.

The synthesis directly informs the evacuation scenario
framework, including trigger point timing, phased zone
sequencing, signal management protocols, and special
population coordination procedures.

VALIDATING ASSUMPTIONS WITH EACH
AGENCY
Before the model is finalized, CRA will return to each
agency with a clear summary of the assumptions
and operational protocols CRA intends to use. This
validation step confirms that the analysis reflects
each agency’s actual capabilities and constraints and
that the recommendations are ones agencies can
realistically implement. It also establishes a shared
analytical foundation that supports productive
communication when the final plan is presented for
adoption.

MEETING MATERIALS AND FOLLOWTHROUGH
CRA recognizes that the individuals involved in
this coordination process carry heavy operational
responsibilities and limited schedule flexibility. For
every meeting, CRA will prepare and distribute a
detailed agenda and relevant background materials
with sufficient lead time for participants to review in advance. Every meeting will be followed by a written
summary documenting key discussion points, decisions
made, open items, and assigned action items. All
materials and summaries will be provided to the
City’s project manager before distribution to agency
contacts.

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Each task builds on the preceding one, progressing
from data collection through baseline development,
simulation modeling, strategy formulation, and plan
assembly.

TASK 1: Project Management
and Coordination
CRA’s Project Manager will serve as the primary point
of contact and will be directly responsible to the City’s project manager for all aspects of project delivery. CRA will maintain the schedule, manage quality control on
all work products, and ensure that agency coordination
and community engagement activities are sequenced
to support the analytical milestones they are intended
to inform.

1.1 PROJECT KICKOFF MEETING
Immediately following contract approval, CRA
will coordinate with the City’s project manager to
schedule the project kickoff meeting. CRA anticipates
this meeting will occur within two weeks of contract
execution. The kickoff is the project’s foundational
coordination event: it establishes the shared
understanding of scope, schedule, and working
relationships that everything else depends on. The
agenda will cover the detailed project schedule
and milestone sequence; the data request list and
responsible parties for each data type; the analytical
approach and modeling methodology; the list of
stakeholders, partner agencies, and community
groups the project team will need to coordinate with;
City protocols for review, comment, and approval
of deliverables; and confirmation of the City’s
communications preferences and decision-making
chain.

1.2 BI-WEEKLY PROJECT UPDATE

MEETINGS
Given the expedited schedule of this project, CRA
recommends holding project update meetings every
two weeks throughout the engagement. Bi-weekly
check-ins keep the City informed of progress, surface
any emerging data gaps or coordination issues before
they affect the schedule, and create a regular forum for the City to provide direction and input between formal
deliverable milestones. Each meeting will be preceded
by a brief written status update prepared by CRA,
and will be followed by a short summary of discussion
points and any action items assigned.

1.3 MONTHLY INVOICING AND STATUS

REPORTING
CRA will submit monthly invoices accompanied by a
written status summary describing the work completed
during the billing period, the percentage of each task
completed to date, any issues or risks to the schedule, and the planned activities for the following month.

Invoices and status summaries will be submitted to the
City’s project manager on a consistent monthly cycle to be confirmed at kickoff.

CRA will perform an internal quality control review
before any deliverable is transmitted to the City. Upon receiving City comments on any draft deliverable,
CRA will provide a written response to comments and
a revised document within two weeks. This two-week
turnaround applies to all draft submissions, including
the Draft Comprehensive Evacuation Plan, technical
memoranda, and any other deliverables subject to City
review.

SCOPE OF WORK

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KEY DELIVERABLES
 Project Kickoff Meeting Agenda and
Supporting Materials, including the draft
project work plan, detailed project schedule
with milestones and review periods, data
request list, and initial stakeholder and agency
contact list
 Bi-weekly project update meeting agendas
and meeting summaries documenting
progress, open items, and action items
 Monthly invoices with written status summaries
describing work completed during the
billing period, percent complete by task, and
planned activities for the following month
TASK 2: Review of Existing
Conditions and Documents
CRA will conduct a structured review of all documents,
plans, and data bearing on evacuation planning
in La Cañada Flintridge. Special population and
access considerations are integrated into this phase,
establishing the data foundation for modeling in Task
3 and operational recommendations in Tasks 5 and 6.

The reviews under this task are organized into three
categories: Documents, Plans, and Data.

DOCUMENTS
 General Plan Safety Element and Local Hazard
Mitigation Plan. Catalog identified hazards,
evacuation goals and policies, and implementation
measures. The Safety Element and LHMP identify
Wildfire, Earthquake, and Flood as the primary
hazard categories requiring evacuation planning;
all scenario development in Task 3 will be
structured to address each.
 SGVCOG Regional CWPP. The 2025 San
Gabriel Valley Council of Governments Regional
Community Wildfire Protection Plan is the
most current and comprehensive regional
wildfire hazard and risk assessment covering La
Cañada Flintridge and the surrounding foothill
communities. Prepared in coordination with
the Los Angeles County Fire Department and a
broad technical advisory committee, the CWPP
evaluates wildfire hazard and risk across the
SGV planning area through a structured HazardExposure-Vulnerability framework, documents community-level evacuation challenges including
road network constraints, congestion on shared
corridors, and behavioral patterns observed during
recent events, and identifies ignition scenarios
and projected impact areas under extreme
wind conditions. CRA will review the CWPP in
depth and incorporate its hazard findings, risk
assessments, and evacuation observations directly
into the project’s technical foundation.
 County, State, and Federal Reference
Documents. Review OPR guidance, California
Attorney General Wildfire Evacuation Guidance,
Appendix Q of the California Fire Code, the LA
County Operational Area EOP, applicable FEMA
guidance, and AB 747 and SB 99.
 After-Action Reports. Extract notification timing,
network performance, shadow evacuation
behavior, signal management outcomes, and
interagency coordination findings from the 2009
Station Fire, 2018 Woolsey Fire, 2020 Bobcat Fire,
2024 Bridge Fire, and January 2025 Eaton Fire.

Additional wildfire after-action reports relevant
to La Cañada Flintridge will be identified during
the project kickoff meeting with the City and
incorporated into the review.

PLANS
 Emergency Operations Plans and Evacuation
Materials. Review existing EOPs, evacuation
maps, Genasys zone structure, warning protocols,
and SOPs to identify gaps and evaluate whether
current zone boundaries support phased
evacuation sequencing.
 School Evacuation Plans. Obtain and review
school EOPs for all City campuses; map
reunification sites, bus staging areas, and
parent notification protocols. Identify the
operational tension between structured school

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CRA P#2026.047 CRA P#2026.047 Project Understanding & Approach procedures and reactive parent behavior, a
documented contributor to congestion in prior
Southern California wildfire events, and develop
coordination protocols with LASD and school
district administration.
 Congregate Care and Senior Facility
Emergency Plans. Map seniors (65+), residents
with disabilities, and zero-vehicle households
by evacuation zone using Census ACS data.

Inventory congregate care, assisted living, skilled
nursing, and memory care facilities from the CDSS
Community Care Licensing Division portal; collect
facility-specific emergency evacuation plans where
feasible. Flag facilities in single-egress zones or
flood-prone areas for priority early notification and
transportation pre-positioning.

DATA
 Roadway and Access Constraints. Inventory
network constraints using City GIS, Caltrans
records, and Nearmap high-resolution aerial
imagery. Nearmap is a high-resolution aerial
imagery platform with coverage of La Cañada
Flintridge last captured in January 2026, providing
the most current available visual record of roadway
geometry, lane configurations, intersection
conditions, and access characteristics. This imagery
will be used to review roadway geometrics, verify
single-egress neighborhood conditions, and
identify field conditions that may not be reflected
in available GIS data. The inventory will specifically
address I-210 interactions with local arterials;
single-egress neighborhoods (30+ parcel building
code threshold and conservative 20–30 dwelling
unit screen); roadway grades and geometry; Red
Flag No-Parking Program current coverage and
clearance benefit; school locations and proximity;
and flood-prone roadway segments and low-water
crossings that may be compromised during storm
events.
 Where needed, CRA will supplement available
data by collecting additional roadway
characteristics using our in-house “Streetview”
high-resolution 360° camera system. The imagery
will be post-processed to document roadway
features, widths, signage, and other conditions
that could pose potential evacuation constraints.

This task includes up to 20 miles of roadway
coverage.
 Traffic Signal Infrastructure and Connectivity.

CRA will coordinate with City staff to identify
and document the existing traffic signal system,
including signal connectivity, controller types and
capabilities, camera equipment and coverage, and
how the signal network interfaces with the City’s
Emergency Operations Center. Understanding
the current state of signal infrastructure and its
integration with EOC operations is essential
groundwork for developing effective evacuation
management strategies in Task 5. This inventory
will identify which corridors have remote
monitoring and control capability, where gaps in
coverage exist, and what operational protocols are
currently in place for signal management during
declared emergencies.
 Non-English-Speaking Households. Identify
and map by zone using Census language data to
inform notification and communications design in
Tasks 5 and 6.
 General Plan Buildout Land Use Assumptions.

CRA will coordinate with City staff to develop the
most reasonable and foreseeable General Plan
buildout land use assumptions for evacuation
modeling purposes. The objective is to identify
the maximum credible stress on the roadway
network under a future evacuation scenario,
not simply the theoretical maximum permitted
by zoning. Applying full General Plan zoning
capacity as a modeling assumption produces
densities that are substantially higher than
historical development patterns and that result
in scenarios too catastrophic to yield actionable
recommendations. Since CRA has been engaged
in General Plan and community plan updates since
the firm’s inception, we understand the need to
develop future scenarios that are conservative yet
analytically defensible. CRA will work with City
staff to develop a growth projection grounded in
historical development patterns, the inventory of

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CRA P#2026.047 CRA P#2026.047 Project Understanding & Approach remaining developable land, and applicable state
law, including accessory dwelling unit regulations
and SB 9. The resulting buildout scenario will
represent a realistic upper bound on future
evacuation demand rather than an absolute worst
case, and will support planning recommendations
the City can credibly adopt and implement.
 Peer-Reviewed Evacuation Behavior Literature.

CRA’s internal library of more than 200 peerreviewed papers on wildfire evacuation behavior will be used to calibrate departure timing, vehicle
loading, route choice, and shadow evacuation
assumptions to conditions comparable to La
Cañada Flintridge.
 Real-Time Network Performance Data. CRA’s
ongoing data collection program using the Google
Routes API captures two distinct types of data that
together form the empirical foundation for the
evacuation model. The first is real-time travel time,
congestion, and road closure data collected during
active Southern California wildfire events, which
provides direct observation of how the network
performs under actual evacuation conditions and is
used to understand evacuation behavior, network
response, and the gap between theoretical and
observed capacity. The second is a month-long
continuous collection of day-to-day traffic patterns
on the La Cañada Flintridge network, capturing
typical travel time and volume conditions across all
times of day, days of week, and seasonal variation.

This day-to-day dataset will be used to develop
the baseline traffic conditions for the evacuation
modeling in Task 4, ensuring that scenarios are
anchored in how the network actually performs
under normal operating conditions rather than
idealized assumptions.

KEY DELIVERABLES
 Existing Conditions and Document Review
Memorandum, with attachments summarizing
key findings, data gaps, and implications for
analysis across all three review categories
(Documents, Plans, and Data)
TASK 3: Special Populations
and Access Considerations
Drawing on data collected in Task 2, CRA will
prepare a structured access and functional needs
assessment that drives modeling assumptions in Task
4 and operational recommendations in Tasks 5 and

6. Findings are incorporated into the draft and final
Evacuation Plan.
 Map seniors (65+), residents with disabilities,
and zero-vehicle households by evacuation zone;
incorporate early senior evacuation demand into
phased scenarios
 Inventory congregate care, assisted living, and
skilled nursing facilities; assess facility-specific
evacuation plans; flag facilities in constrainedegress zones or flood-prone areas for priority notification and transportation pre-positioning
 Incorporate school-generated traffic demand as a
distinct model input; refine school-parent response
coordination protocols
 Map non-English-speaking households by zone
to inform targeted notification and multilingual
communications design
 Coordinate with LAFD, LASD, school district
administrators, and congregate care operators to
validate access and functional needs assumptions
and protocols

KEY DELIVERABLES
 Special Populations and Access
Considerations Memorandum summarizing
the access and functional needs assessment,
facility inventory, school demand analysis,
notification prioritization recommendations,
and model input assumptions

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CRA P#2026.047 CRA P#2026.047 Project Understanding & Approach TASK 4: Hazard and
Evacuation Analysis
CRA will develop the technical foundation for the
evacuation analysis in two sequential steps: first
establishing and documenting the baseline network
conditions for City review, then building and running
the evacuation simulation model. This two-step
structure ensures that the modeling inputs are
transparent and City-reviewed before results are
generated, producing a technically defensible analysis
grounded in agreed-upon assumptions.

4.1 EVACUATION NETWORK BASELINE

AND MODEL INPUTS
CRA will compile, synthesize, and document the full
set of inputs required for the evacuation model. This
includes building a GIS-based roadway inventory
incorporating lane configurations, speeds, turn
restrictions, signal control, widths, grades, and
capacity under both normal and evacuation-modified
conditions. Capacity calculations will account for Red
Flag No-Parking Program impacts on roadway width,
contraflow potential, I-210 on-ramp interactions,
single-egress neighborhood constraints, and floodprone segments that may reduce available network capacity during storm-driven events.

Baseline traffic conditions will be anchored in CRA’s
month-long day-to-day network performance data
collected via the Google Routes API, supplemented
by count data from the City and Caltrans, to
reflect realistic conditions at the times of day when
evacuations are most likely to be ordered. Vehicle
demand will be developed using a worst-case
methodology with all units assumed occupied and
demand calculated from Census vehicle ownership
rates.

The existing Genasys zone structure will be reviewed
and documented as the operational framework
for the analysis, with an assessment of whether
current zone boundaries adequately support phased
evacuation sequencing and account for concentrations
of single-egress neighborhoods and access and
functional needs populations identified in Task 3.

Where zone refinements would materially improve
performance, alternatives will be identified for City
consideration. The baseline will also incorporate the
special populations demand inputs developed in
Task 3, ensuring that senior early evacuation demand,
school-generated traffic, and congregate care facility
constraints are reflected in the model from the outset.

KEY DELIVERABLES
 Evacuation Network Baseline Technical
Memorandum documenting the roadway
network inventory, capacity assumptions,
baseline traffic conditions, vehicle demand
methodology, Genasys zone assessment,
and all model input assumptions for City staff
review prior to model development

4.2 EVACUATION SIMULATION

MODELING AND ANALYSIS
Using the City-reviewed baseline inputs from Subtask

4.1, CRA will develop and run the evacuation
simulation model in PTV Vissim with Dynamic Traffic
Assignment. Multiple simulation iterations will be
run to convergence to produce statistically reliable
clearance time estimates. The model will evaluate the
following scenarios spanning all Safety Element and
LHMP hazard types:
 Catastrophic Areawide Evacuation: all zones
simultaneous under both uncontrolled and
standard signal timing to establish clearance time
upper bounds (Wildfire)
 Area-Specific Wildfire Scenarios (2-3): phased
zone activation (immediate / 10-min / 1-hr) based
on CWPP ignition locations, incorporating shadow
evacuation and early senior evacuation demand
calibrated to local Census data and Eaton Fire
documentation

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CRA P#2026.047 CRA P#2026.047 Project Understanding & Approach  Earthquake Scenarios: evacuation under
post-earthquake network degradation including
damaged infrastructure, bridge closures, and
reduced access; compound scenarios evaluated
where post-earthquake conditions coincide with
secondary hazards such as fire or slope failure
 Flood Scenarios: evacuation under flood
conditions identified in the Safety Element and
LHMP, accounting for inundated or compromised
roadway segments, low-water crossings, and
reduced network capacity; coordinated with LA
County Flood Control District data and FEMA
flood zone mapping
 General Plan Build-Out Scenario: at least
one wildfire scenario re-run at the reasonable
foreseeable buildout densities developed in
coordination with City staff under Task 2
For each scenario, the model will produce zoneby-zone and total clearance times, congestion hotspots and queue locations, volume-to-capacity
ratios on key corridors, signal management strategy
recommendations including the potential benefit
of coordinated outbound progression, comparative
phased vs. catastrophic results, and identification of
single-access neighborhoods and choke points. GISbased vulnerability maps will identify high-risk zones and road segments where improvements would most
effectively reduce clearance times.

KEY DELIVERABLES
 Hazard and Evacuation Analysis Technical
Memorandum summarizing the evacuation
model, scenarios, clearance time results by
scenario and zone, GIS-based vulnerability
maps, and key findings and recommendations
TASK 5: Evacuation Strategy
and Recommendations
Drawing on the modeling results from Task 4,
CRA will develop planning-level strategies and
recommendations across two distinct categories:
coordination considerations for organizations and
agencies that the City works with but does not directly regulate, and operational strategies that the City
has direct authority to implement. This distinction is
important because it determines how each type of
recommendation moves forward after plan adoption.

5.1 COORDINATION STRATEGIES AND

RECOMMENDATIONS WITH LOCAL

PARTNERS
This subtask addresses the organizations and agencies
whose cooperation materially affects evacuation
performance but over whom the City has no direct
regulatory authority. CRA will develop planning-level
frameworks and coordination considerations for the
City to carry into its existing relationships with these organizations. Where the City determines that specific
coordination actions are warranted, these frameworks
can serve as the basis for outreach. If agreed upon by
the relevant organizations, the resulting inputs can be incorporated into the evacuation analysis and plan.
 School and Congregate Care Planning
Considerations. Identify how school-hour
evacuation timing, parent response behavior,
and reunification site access interact with
network conditions. Develop general notification
sequencing and transportation resource
considerations for congregate care facilities
by zone, tied to facility locations and egress
constraints identified in Tasks 2 and 3. These are
offered as planning frameworks for the City to
advance through coordination conversations with
school administrators, facility operators, and LASD.

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CRA P#2026.047 CRA P#2026.047 Project Understanding & Approach  Multi-Agency Coordination Framework. Identify
coordination points and information-sharing
needs across LAFD, LASD, Caltrans, Metro, LA
County OES, LA County Flood Control District,
and neighboring jurisdictions, with particular
attention to I-210 operations and shared corridor
management during a multi-jurisdiction event. The
framework will outline recommended roles and
handoff points to support interagency planning
conversations.
 Shelter-in-Place Decision Framework. Develop
a planning-level decision framework identifying
conditions under which shelter-in-place may be the
more appropriate response, particularly for singleegress neighborhoods under wildfire scenarios and for areas where flood-compromised routes
limit safe evacuation options. This framework
is intended to support coordinated messaging
between the City and its public safety partners.

KEY DELIVERABLES
 Coordination Strategies and
Recommendations with Local Partners
Memorandum summarizing school and
congregate care planning frameworks, multiagency coordination roles and handoff points, and shelter-in-place decision framework
for City use in interagency coordination
conversations

5.2 EVACUATION MANAGEMENT

STRATEGIES AND MITIGATION

ANALYSIS
This subtask addresses strategies within the City’s
direct authority to implement, recommend, or direct.

CRA will develop specific recommendations for
each strategy area and present them to the City for
concurrence. Strategies the City elects to pursue
will then be tested through the mitigation strategy
scenario analysis to quantify their effectiveness in
reducing evacuation clearance times.
 Evacuation Trigger Points and Zone Sequencing.

Identify observable trigger conditions by hazard
type (wildfire: fire location, wind speed, and rate
of spread; earthquake: seismic event thresholds
and infrastructure damage indicators; flood:
rainfall intensity, stream gauge levels, and National
Weather Service warnings) and develop zone
activation sequencing recommendations tied to
the existing Genasys zone structure. The Task 4
modeling results will quantify the clearance time
benefit of phased versus simultaneous evacuation,
providing the IC with a data-supported basis for
sequenced orders.
 Routing and Network Management. Designate
primary and secondary evacuation routes
by zone and scenario, with alternate routing
identified where flood or earthquake damage
may compromise primary corridors. Identify
corridors where signal management strategies
could improve outbound flow based on the
signal infrastructure inventory from Task 2,
and outline traffic control point locations and
general deployment considerations for LASD.

Evaluate contraflow opportunities and summarize
implementation considerations where applicable.
 Red Flag No-Parking Program. Assess the
incremental benefit of the existing program on
network clearance capacity and identify potential
refinements to coverage and coordination
with zone activation sequencing for the City’s
consideration.
 Mitigation Strategy Scenario Analysis. Working
in coordination with the City, CRA will select up
to three combinations of City-directed strategies
identified above and run them through the Vissim
evacuation model to quantify their effectiveness in
reducing clearance times. Strategies may include
phased zone activation sequencing, traffic signal
control measures to prioritize outbound flow
and create green-wave progression, contraflow
operations, Red Flag No-Parking Program
adjustments, and other network management
interventions. Scenarios will be selected to test
meaningfully different combinations, giving the