About RRPN
Strengthening the networks that help California communities recover.
Our mission
When California communities face disaster and the long work of recovery, what determines whether they come back stronger is rarely any single policy. It is whether the community can act as one — informed, organized, and connected — rather than facing recovery alone, household by household.
The Responsible Recovery Planning Network exists to strengthen the recovery and resiliency networks that let neighbors respond together, bring survivors home, and combat displacement — the social safety net that keeps a community whole through recovery. We build that network by partnering with existing community organizations and using technology to connect residents quickly and effectively. In service of that work, we advance equitable disaster response centered on vulnerable populations; convene across sectors — residents, local government, utilities, and funders — around the recovery challenges they share; and pursue the systems-level remedies that help communities recover faster next time. We help communities attract the greater public and private investment recovery requires, and we bring sound planning to private land, the public realm, and government, community, and utility infrastructure, paired with long-term fiscal sustainability. Because the challenges communities face rarely respect a single jurisdiction or sector, we bring research, planning, and policy expertise to bear wherever it strengthens the network on the ground.
RRPN operates as a portfolio of community projects. Our first, Altadena Recovery Watch, grew out of the 2025 Eaton Fire — building an engaged network of more than 2,400 residents in three weeks through existing community organizations and technology — and now channels that network's voice into the state legislation shaping its recovery and rebuilding.
About Noel
Noel Hyun Minor · Founder
Noel Hyun Minor founded the Responsible Recovery Planning Network to bring clarity and good judgment to how California plans, builds, and rebuilds. A native Angeleno, a former real estate, land-use, and environmental attorney, and a graduate of the USC Gould School of Law, Noel has spent her career at the intersection of housing, land use, and public policy — and, unusually, she has seen that intersection from nearly every side.
That range is the point. Noel served as a staffer to former Los Angeles City Councilmember and Mayor Eric Garcetti, which gave her a firsthand view of how policy is actually made. As a land-use attorney at DLA Piper and Liner LLP, she advocated for business interests — securing entitlements for complex redevelopment projects and public-private partnerships, including work with LA Metro and community redevelopment agencies. As an advocate with the Central City Association, she championed the renaissance of downtown Los Angeles. She has served her own community directly, formerly serving on the Central Hollywood Neighborhood Council, as a Neighborhood Council Budget Advocate under Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, and on the boards of charter schools and private schools. She is a landlord herself, with a direct stake in how housing rules land in practice, and has also served on the board of the West Hollywood Community Housing Corporation — a non-profit affordable housing developer. Few people in this space have stood in all of those places.
Her particular strength is bringing those lenses together. Noel has seen how a single well-intentioned law reads to a City Hall staffer, a developer, a neighbor, and a property owner all at once — and she uses that whole-picture view to help shape policy that is sensible, durable, and grounded in how communities actually function.
RRPN grew directly out of that instinct. When the January 2025 Eaton Fire swept through the Altadena area, Noel did not lose her own home — but many of her friends did, and the fire reshaped her family's daily life, from the loss of her son's school to the community club at the center of their weeks. As out-of-town speculators moved to use California's by-right density laws to subdivide fire-cleared lots before residents could return, Noel convened Altadena Recovery Watch — a network of residents and local organizations that helped inform SB 1090, the "Keep Altadena Land in Altadena Hands" Act, which passed out of both Assembly policy committees on July 1, 2026. It stands as one example of the approach RRPN is built to scale: resident-informed, fact-driven, and transparent.
Today, RRPN carries that work statewide — not as a partisan or single-issue campaign, but as an organization focused on education and transparency in service of responsible, resilient recovery and planning. For Noel, this is not abstract policy. It is the region she comes from, and the communities she wants to see rebuild well.