HURRICANE EVACUATION MODELING SAFETY OVER DEVELOPMENT

What’s happening

The FL DEO is updating the Hurricane Evacuation Model for the Florida Keys. Public workshops to provide additional information and receive public input started June 13 and ended June 14th. The period for the public to provide formal comments to the DEO closed June 30th. 

    What the process is and what to expect next
    Updated hurricane evacuation modeling and 2020 Census data will be incorporated in the new Hurricane Evacuation Clearance Time Memorandum of Understanding. An analysis of the updated hurricane evacuation modeling, along with public comment and local government input, will be used to make policy and rule recommendations to the Florida Governor, Cabinet, and Legislature. At the Public Workshops, the DEO said it wishes to wrap up the process and provide recommendations by September.
    Why you need to be involved

    Thousands of Keys residents are concerned, we’re already at capacity, and it’s time to stop putting lives at risk by allowing more development in the Keys.

    The 24-hour hurricane evacuation mandate can be bypassed by putting more people or housing units into Phase 1 – asking them to leave at 48 hours with no option to enforce nor a guarantee of that much time to evacuate.

    What You Can Do

    Write to your local government officials.

    THERE IS STRENGTH IN NUMBERS AND NOW IS THE TIME TO ACT.

    Thank you for being a concerned citizen.

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    Lynne Bentley-Kemp

    Photo taken by Last Stand member:
    Lynne Bentley-Kemp

    Photo taken by Last Stand member:
    Lynne Bentley-Kemp

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