Planning Commission reviews draft WUI material rules, staff recommends banning wood shingles
Jul 15, 2026
Springdale planning staff presented draft ordinance language to align local code with the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) requirements, recommending a prohibition on wood roof shingles, allowing timber structural elements, and adding cement board siding to approved materials.
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The Springdale Planning Commission on July 15 reviewed draft ordinance language designed to reconcile the Town’s land use code with the newly adopted Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) regulations. Associate Planner Eugenia Akiyom told commissioners that staff had prepared draft amendments addressing ‘‘building construction materials and landscape requirements related to defensible space.’’
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