What if..one neighborhood at a time- you all just rebelled? Pick a day and all of you go out and clean the scrub, removed dead wood etc:)
Wonder what “they” would do?
Are you talking about the riff raff or real palnts and trees ?
I really don’t think anyone is stopping people from clearing brush on or adjacent to their property... are they?
Most of these developments have homeowners’ associations, and I would think they would address it.
Maybe after some of the residents get settled back in, they can answer the questions re how brush clearance is handled in their neighborhoods.
In the meantime, these fires jumped all kinds of boundaries and preventive measures. The wind was so wild that live embers were blown great distances. There is a limit to what humans who want to live next to “beautiful nature” can do in the way of prevention, in home building and in brush clearance.