Deschutes County holds work session on optional wildfire building code; public hearing set
County staff previewed a proposal to adopt Oregon’s R3-27 home-hardening building-code standards for new residential construction, estimated to raise construction costs modestly, and set a public hearing for Jan. 14 to decide whether to adopt the standards and where they would apply.
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County planners on Wednesday gave commissioners a detailed briefing on a proposed local adoption of section R3-27 of the Oregon Residential Specialty Code, an optional set of “home‑hardening” building-code standards intended to reduce wildfire risk for new residential construction.
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