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SBCC committee presses ahead on WUI mapping and an optional WUI code; DNR maps may delay mandatory adoption until 2029
Summary
Committee members discussed timelines and options for a wildland‑urban interface (WUI) code after updated draft language and DNR mapping projections. Members favored deliberate tag‑level work and flagged statutory limits on local amendments to residential codes.
State Building Code Council legislative‑committee members spent substantial time on the wildland‑urban interface (WUI) code and the mapping schedule that underpins any mandatory statewide WUI standard.
Legislative staff said Representative Duerr provided updated draft language and that the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) expects to finish the WUI maps "sometime, at the end of this year," which staff said would be too late for adoption in the 2024 code cycle and pushed any mandatory statewide implementation toward a later code cycle. Staff described an…
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