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Agoura Hills urges board to take a balanced, science-based approach to proposed Zone 0 rules
Summary
The council unanimously approved a letter asking the California Board of Forestry to adopt science-based, locally sensitive Zone 0 defensible-space regulations that emphasize home hardening and avoid one-size-fits-all vegetation removal in the first five feet around structures.
Agoura Hills — The City Council voted 5–0 to send a letter to the California Board of Forestry urging that any new Zone 0 defensible-space regulations be science-based, proportionate, and allow local discretion.
Mayor Penny Sylvester, who requested the item, said proposed language under consideration at the Board could be interpreted as requiring removal of all vegetation within the first five feet of structures statewide — an outcome she called…
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