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Flagstaff council directs staff to draft three‑year pilot to revise forest resource protections for development
Summary
Council gave direction to staff to prepare a zoning-code text amendment establishing a three-year pilot program to align development standards with wildfire science, using LiDAR and other remote-sensing tools to better protect high-quality trees while improving community wildfire resilience.
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — At its April 15 meeting, the Flagstaff City Council directed staff to draft a three‑year pilot zoning code amendment that would change how the city protects forest resources on development sites and better align those protections with wildfire science.
City staff said the pilot would apply to properties inside the city’s resource protection overlay and would allow developers to use modern remote-sensing data — including LiDAR — to identify and prioritize retention of the highest-quality trees, while designing new separations and defensible features to reduce wildfire risk.
Staff presented the proposal as a way to reconcile conflicting requirements in the current code and the citywide forest…
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