Genesee landowner tells Planning Commission shes been repeatedly reported; asks for clearer grandfathering, fire-mitigation rules

Leila Levy, a property owner in Genesee, told the Plumas County Planning Commission during the public comment period that she has faced repeated complaints and code-enforcement inspections after the Dixie Fire and asked the commission to pursue clearer rules and better protections for landowners engaged in fire mitigation.

Levy said she owns a "129.67 acre farm out in Genesee that burned in the Dixie fire" and that the parcel is inside a very-high fire hazard severity zone. She described a pattern of neighbor reports that led to repeated county visits. "I feel like I'm being harassed by the planning department," Levy said.

Levy told commissioners she had hired, then fired, a contractor to build a small structure and subsequently removed it; nonetheless, she said, "my neighbor had turned me in for that structure" and later reported her permitted…