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Fruit Heights council briefed on HB48 requirements for wildland-urban interface overlay and possible property assessments
Summary
City attorney outlined state House Bill 48 requirements: the state map of high-risk wildland–urban interface areas requires an overlay and adoption of the state WUI building code; some properties identified in the overlay could face annual assessments to fund mitigation and owners will be responsible for vegetation clearance near structures.
City attorney Brad Christopherson told the council that House Bill 48 requires the state to identify high-risk wildland–urban interface (WUI) zones and directs cities to adopt an overlay zone and the state's WUI building code. He said Fruit Heights recently received the state map and must adopt an overlay and related building-code ordinance, which will be reviewed by the planning commission before coming to council.
Christopherson said the overlay will identify structures with elevated…
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