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Deschutes County holds work session on optional wildfire building code; public hearing set
Summary
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.
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.
Kyle Collins, senior planner, said the code “only applies to new residential development and certain residential accessory structures,” and is not a retroactive regulation for existing homes except in narrow replacement circumstances. He told the…
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