Santiam Canyon Wildfire Recovery Project

The Santiam Canyon Wildfire Recovery Project is a planning research project provided by Oregon APA's Community Assistance Planning Program (CAPP), in service to Marion County, the Mid-Willamette Valley Council of Governments, and the Santiam Canyon community, completed August 2021. Volunteer planning professionals from across Oregon set out to research and document critical information for planning Santiam Canyon’s recovery.

Project Goals:

• Provide information and analysis to assist Santiam Canyon communities moving into the visioning and planning phases of recovery.
  
• Undertake foundational work for longer-term community decisions, project identification, and a resilient recovery.
• Provide the communities with an actionable resource to set the stage for, catalyze, and inform community-based planning processes, such as: funding proposals; community visioning around long-term rebuilding opportunities and priorities; and coordination across jurisdictions, levels of government, and sectors.

The final project report includes:

• Overview: Background, Methods, and Opportunities 

• Wildfire Recovery Planning Best Practices

• Briefing papers:

  • Community Based Organizations

  • Community Visioning

  • Emergency Service and Capacity for Response

  • Environmental Resources and Ecosystem Services

  • Historical and Cultural Resources

  • Housing

  • Infrastructure: Transportation

  • Infrastructure: Water, Wastewater, and Broadband

  • Land Use Regulations and Tribal Lands

  • Need, Equity, and Demographics

  • Recreation and Tourism 

Click here for a compilation of all of the sections.