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Board introduces standing disaster-recovery ordinance to streamline wildfire response
Summary
Supervisors introduced an ordinance to add Chapter 57 to the Butte County Code — a standing, codified set of provisions for wildfire-related emergency recovery including debris removal, temporary housing, and abatement — to speed response after large fires; the ordinance will be triggered when local and state emergency declarations are in place
Butte County supervisors voted June 10 to introduce an ordinance that would add Chapter 57 to the county code, creating a standing set of rules for wildfire emergency recovery that county staff say will speed post-fire response and reduce the need for multiple urgency ordinances.
Paula Danilak, Director of Development Services, told the board the proposed chapter compiles lessons learned from previous large incidents including the Camp Fire and North Complex fires. “What is before you today addresses the various stages of those events,” she said, describing…
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