Lake County supervisors continue first reading of ordinance designating fire-hazard severity zones

The Lake County Board of Supervisors on Monday agreed to continue consideration of an ordinance adopting updated fire hazard severity zone maps for Local Responsibility Areas in unincorporated Lake County to June 10 at 9:30 a.m.

Maria Turner, Community Development Director, told the board staff requested the continuance after “inadvertently omitted the public input that we received during our 90 day public review period for these fire maps.” Turner said the county’s public review ran Feb. 12 to May 12 and that printed maps were available in the Community Development Department and online at ready.lakecountyca.gov.

The update would raise the fire-hazard designation on a majority of county parcels, Turner said, and she reminded the board that “according to state law, a local jurisdiction is not allowed to reduce…