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Portola Valley council ratifies Woodside Fire's 2025 fire and WUI code with local amendments; hydrant-flow threshold adjusted
Summary
The council ratified Woodside Fire Protection District's adoption of the 2025 California Fire Code and the 2025 Wildland-Urban Interface code with local amendments, including a change reducing the fire-hydrant flow standard for some remodels to 750 gallons per minute; members discussed the 50% remodel trigger and lighting requirements.
The Portola Valley Town Council voted Dec. 16 to ratify the Woodside Fire Protection District's adoption of the 2025 California Fire Code and the separate 2025 Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) code, along with the district's local amendments.
Steve McCarris, the town's special planning and building project manager, presented the item including background that the statewide code cycle produced the 2025 codebooks that take effect Jan. 1. Woodside Fire requested the town ratify its local changes; the town staff recommended ratification. Division Chief Kimberly Giulacci, representing…
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