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Residents and council discuss Cal Fire hazard map adoption and municipal-code implications
Summary
At public comment and during consent-item discussion, residents and staff debated whether adopting the state's Cal Fire hazard map should change the city's municipal-code application of high fire-hazard standards citywide; council approved the related consent item after clarifying distinctions between mapping and building standards.
La Habra Heights residents raised questions about how adopting the state Cal Fire hazard map would interact with the city—ode that currently applies high fire-hazard building standards citywide.
In public comment, resident Stephen Black said municipal Code 4420B appears to apply high fire-hazard standards across the entire city and asked whether that code "supersedes the Cal Fire map as being stricter" if the city adopts the state map. He…
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