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Local planning committee advances wildfire-resilient landscaping guidance, debates tree distances and home hardening
Summary
Los Altos Hills’ Environmental Design and Preservation Committee spent its meeting revising a draft landscaping guide to prioritize wildfire resilience, proposing numeric guidance for new plantings (discussed 5 feet from roofline, 10 feet where branches overhang) and recommending avoiding highly flammable species in new landscapes; members stressed the guide should not force removal of mature trees and linked the effort to pending ordinance updates.
The Los Altos Hills Environmental Design and Preservation Committee (EDPC) spent most of its meeting refining a draft wildfire‑resilient landscaping guide, with members prioritizing fire safety in new landscape design while seeking to avoid mandates that would require removal of mature trees.
Committee member Peter, who led the revision effort, said the meeting focused on clarifying guidance for new plantings and aligning recommendations with existing municipal and Cal FIRE guidance. “I modified it to say the top priority in designing landscaping,” he told the committee, explaining he added references to the town code, Cal FIRE defensible‑space guidance and…
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