With a significant number of destructive wildfires affecting California in recent years, some residents are questioning the potential effects of new legislation aimed at increasing density in the state’s single-family-zoned neighborhoods.
Senate Bill 9 (SB 9), recently signed by the governor, appears to exclude very high fire hazard severity zones. However, Livable California claims that SB 9’s restrictions on development in these fire hazard zones don’t apply where fire mitigation standards apply. “And those fire mitigation standards are already applied in Chapter 7A of the state Building Code,” the organization states.
