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Paradise council adopts broadcast‑burning permit and introduces ordinance after months of planning
Summary
Council adopted a resolution adding a broadcast burning permit and introduced an ordinance setting requirements, outside a defined exclusion zone, with certifications, notifications and Air Quality requirements.
The Paradise Town Council voted to adopt a resolution adding a broadcast burning permit to the town’s land‑clearing permitting process and introduced an ordinance to establish requirements for permitted broadcast (prescribed) burning inside town limits.
Fire Chief Jason Finney told the council the measure is intended to allow carefully planned broadcast burning under permit in larger parcels while limiting smoke impacts in denser parts of town. Under the resolution and draft ordinance, broadcast burning permits would be available for single parcels larger than five acres or for multiple contiguous parcels under common ownership that together exceed five acres. Permits would be time‑limited to permitted burn periods and…
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