Formation of Baldwin Lake Fire Protection District or Annexation to the Big Bear City Community Services District and Detachment from the San Bernardino County

Formation of Baldwin Lake Fire Protection District or Annexation to the Big Bear City Community Services District and Detachment from the San Bernardino County

The reorganization request was for the formation of a new fire protection district for the Baldwin Lake community; while the LAFCO potential modification is to annex the territory to an existing local service provider. In the application materials submitted to LAFCO, the applicant for the Original Proposal for LAFCO 3172 provides several reasons why the creation of a new fire protection district appears to be the only way to maintain the current level of service provided by the Baldwin Lake Volunteer Fire Department, which currently operates as a volunteer entity under the jurisdiction of the San Bernardino County Fire Protection District. The primary rationale is that, due to distance from the nearest county Fire station in the community of Fawnskin and slow response by the Big Bear City Community Services District under automatic aid, the only alternative is to form a fire protection district for the community of Baldwin Lake to preserve the current Voluntary Fire Department. The second half of this rationale is that the BLVFD has been sustained by a single individual's efforts. Therefore, the application concludes that creation of a new fire protection district can provide the financial resources necessary to sustain the higher level of fire protection and emergency service currently provided to the community by the BLVFD.

San Bernardino

Cal Fire, California Air Resources Board (ARB), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Transportation, District 8 (DOT), California Highway Patrol, California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Santa Ana Region 8 (RWQCB), Department of Fish and Wildlife, Region 6, Department of Water Resources, Office of Emergency Services, California, Resources Agency

Other (Formation, Annexation and Detachment)

Formation, Annexation and Detachment

Aesthetics, Agriculture and Forestry Resources, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Cultural Resources, Flood Plain/Flooding, Geology/Soils, Hydrology/Water Quality, Mineral Resources, Noise, Population/Housing, Public Services, Recreation, Transportation, Vegetation, Wetland/Riparian, Wildfire, Wildlife