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Advisory panel warns 'Zone 0' rules could strip urban canopy; committee files report and urges public input
Summary
The Comité de Seguridad Pública on Sept. 17 heard an advisory report on proposed state 'Zone 0' regulations that could require vegetation-free strips five feet from structures in high-severity areas; the committee noted and filed the report 5-0.
The Comité de Seguridad Pública on Sept. 17 heard a joint advisory report on proposed state “Zone 0” regulations for high fire severity areas and voted to note and file the report by a 5-0 roll call.
Cene Toopop and Jeannebe Antonio of the Forestry Advisory Committee presented the report, which recommends integrating biodiversity and ecological health into vegetation management rules intended to reduce wildfire risk. The presenters said the 2020 state law that created the Zone 0 concept (described in the presentation as proposed by “Lord Freeman”) would require a five-foot defensible area free of combustible materials around structures in affected zones but could be applied in ways that remove living,…
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