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REPORT - INTRODUCE AN ORDINANCE ADDING CHAPTER 9-28 TO THE SANTA ROSA CITY CODE PERTAINING TO FUELS MITIGATION PILE BURNING
BACKGROUND: Reducing the vegetative fuel load is a critical part of the City’s efforts to mitigate wildfire danger. By focusing on thinning and or removing low-lying vegetation, including those that can carry fire to taller tree canopies - called ladder fuels - from lands and in some areas, close to private residences, can create a more fire-resistant habitat by modifying fire behavior in an effort to reduce environmental damage and aid in suppressing wildfires. Benefits from fuels mitigation pile burning include: prevent loss of lives, reduce fire suppression costs, reduce private property losses and protect natural resources from devastating wildfire.
This chapter allows private landowners with parcels of five (5) acres or more in size and located in the City’s Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Area to obtain a permit from the Fire Department to perform pile b...
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