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HomeMy WebLinkAbout06.14.21 FW_ For BOS Fwd_ NHW ALERT_ time sensitive info_ Board of Forestry Proposed Minimum Fire Safe Regulations 2021_Redacted From:Pickett, Andy To:Alpert, Bruce;Bennett, Robin;Clerk of the Board;Connelly, Bill;Cook, Holly;Cook, Robin;Hironimus, Patrizia; Kimmelshue, Tod;Lucero, Debra;Paulsen, Shaina;Pickett, Andy;Ring, Brian;Ritter, Tami;Rodas, Amalia; Sweeney, Kathleen;Teeter, Doug Cc:Daneluk, Paula Subject:FW: For BOS Fwd: NHW ALERT: time sensitive info: Board of Forestry Proposed Minimum Fire Safe Regulations 2021 Date:Monday, June 14, 2021 8:20:27 AM Attachments:Staff_Report.pdf fhszs_map4.pdf Sample Letter Board of Forestry.docx Moak Comment Letter to BOF 6-07-21.docx Please see attached email. Andy 530-552-3310 (Office) From: Lois Miller <mtidawatch@comcast.net> Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2021 1:15 PM To: Pickett, Andy <APickett@buttecounty.net> Subject: For BOS Fwd: NHW ALERT: time sensitive info: Board of Forestry Proposed Minimum Fire Safe Regulations 2021 ATTENTION: This message originated from outside Butte County. Please exercise judgment before opening .. attachments, clicking on links, or replying. HiAndy, CouldyoupleaseforwardthisemailandtheattachedemailtoalloftheButteCoBoardOf SupervisorsandAdminstaffsotheyunderstandhowearnestwearetohelp? Surely,thereisahalfwaypointbetweencommonsensefuelreductions,ordinances and buildingregsthatscanbeadoptedotherthen theDraconianregulations theBOFispushing. IwantallBoSupstoknowIsentout400+EmailstoallofourNHW,GRMSandfriends throughouttheseeastfoothills/ForbestownandBangor. FromthatEMAILthebarkingchainwentviraltoinclude,Cattleman,FarmBureauand ForbestownLandusefolk.NOONEWASAWARE!theBOFmadeatacticalerrorhere. Peoplearefurious.TheBOFshouldbegettinglettersthroughtillJune15. MyletterwasreceivedbyMsMcCoyonemail.Ididnotmincewordsincludingthetaxloss tocounty,infringementonpropertyownersCIVILRIGHTS,therealityofdrug/dope internationalcartelsandsquattersmovinginupinthehilland 3pagesworthofcomments andconcerns@ifthisinsanitypasses. Iranoutofenergytotrackdowntheiremails. Thanks,LoisMiller Beginforwardedmessage: From:LoisMiller<mtidawatch@comcast.net> Date:June11,2021at9:30:42AMPDT To:MtIdaWatch@comcast.net Subject:NHW ALERT: time sensitive info: Board of Forestry Proposed Minimum Fire Safe Regulations 2021 Hi Neighbors, th We were informed yesterday, June 10 that the following situation needs OUR attention, ASAP. Please review this information. This past Tuesday, the Butte County Board of Supervisors had a hearing and sent a letter to the Board of Forestry on their Proposed Minimum Fire Safe Regulations 2021 (see attached staff report). The regulations propose to prohibit building, re- building in some of the fire zones, housing additions and certain property transfer transactions in portions of the Unincorporated Area of CALIFORNIA where there is high fire severity (see attached map). Given the housing crisis that is already in full swing, this would cause a lot of heartburn to the already impacted process. The effects of these regulations for the Department of Forestry, if it passes, will be far reaching. The county sent a letter outlining their concerns to the Board of Forestry earlier this week. The Board of Forestry asserts that they are not hearing from the public on the proposed regulations, which seems to indicate that they haven't heard from enough people....yet. There is a public comment period on the proposed regulations, however, it closes this coming Tuesday, June 15th. To help expedite the comment process, Marisa has written a sample letter that you can use, or you can write your own. The fastest way to provide a comment is to send via email to PublicComments@BOF.ca.gov, as only written comments will be accepted. The contact for email and snail mail is, Attn: Claire Mc Coy, Wildfire Planning Specialist, PO Box 944246 Sacramento, CA 94244-2460. I also included another very indepth letter with summary of the impacts of these regulations written by Peg Moak to the BOF which lays it all out. You’ll get the idea of how far reaching this mess really is. Tremendous thanks to Marisa, the other “Mama Bear” who advocates for your safety in this NHW group. We are double teaming on this. We put our heads together last night so we could inform all of you ASAP. She organized the info; I am emailing it out to all of you. IF you want to thank her, please use mtida2watch@gmail.com ( Marisa) My NHW email is different mtidawatch@comcast.net (Lois) Please help have our voices heard on these proposed regulations and do your part by providing a comment. You can use the template Marisa wrote up on Word, “ Sample Letter to Board of Forestry” make it your own or use the same one. JUST DO SOMETHING ASAP. If you want more info, contact me by email. 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The Resources Agency CAL FIRE State Responsibility Areas (SRA05_5) Ruben Grijalva, Director, Obtain FRAP maps, data, metadata and publications on the Internet at http://frap.cdf.ca.gov CAL FIRE Incorporated Cities (Incorp07_3) For more information, contact CAL FIRE-FRAP, PO Box 944246, Sacramento, CA 94244-2460, (916) 327-3939.Department of Forestry and Fire Protection PLSS (1:100,000 USGS, Land Grants with CAL FIRE grid) June 7, 2021 Board of Forestry and Fire Protection Attn: Claire McCoy, Wildfire Planning Specialist P.O. Box 944246 Sacramento, CA 94244-2460 Dear Board of Forestry: This letter is in response to the Notice of Proposed Action to adopt the draft Fire Safe Regulations, specifically Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations (14 CCR), Division 1.5, Chapter 7 Subchapter 2, Articles 1-5 currently in the formal rulemaking public comment period. I have participated in virtual meetings hosted by the Board of Forestry (BOF) over the past several months, as an interested landowner, a member of Butte County’s Forest Advisory, Federal/State Land Use Coordinatingand Wildfire Safety Task Force Committees, and a member of the 2018 Camp Fire Recovery Housing Committee. I appreciate the opportunity to comment, and understand that the Board is attempting these regulatory changes with an eye to public safety; however, I strongly believe they are neither practical nor in the best interests of the public. The regulations as proposed cause a high degree of concern, for the following reasons: The standards are so rigid and unaffordable to implement that property owners will not be able to legally construct dwellings as they have planned. The inability to build will sharply decrease land values. In effect, I believe this effectively constitutes a taking of their land. The result will likely be a combination of unpermitted structures being built and, at the other end of the spectrum, abandonment of properties. The property maintenance needed for wildfire safety will highly likely be abandoned, as well. Lack of land maintenance will exacerbate the wildfire danger to the remaining population. Only wealthy property owners will be able to afford to upgrade driveways and roads from their structure to a collector road, and construct bridges that meet public standards. This creates an equity issue in a state where affordable housing is already a desperately critical situation, surely conflicts with the State direction to encourage affordable housing, and certainly creates a huge issue here in Butte County. Additionally, the road standards, if fully implemented, would require widening of many roads where no easement across private property exists to support such improvements. This one-size fits all regulation is overly restrictive, burdensome and detrimental to the welfare of California’s citizens. They fail to recognize the importance of local control and good judgement of the local agencies charged with developing building standards with an eye to public safety given their unique terrain, road systems and the needs of their citizens. The road standards, applicable even to personal driveways, are far too stringent, unaffordable for most rural public entities to accomplish stated upgrades, and certainly unaffordable for property owners who wish to build – or, as written, even add a room to their home, or expand a living area. Although exemptions apply for wildfire rebuilds, that limited exemption is not sufficient to encompass all legitimate building scenarios for individuals living in the VHFHSZ, i.e. what if a home needs to be rebuilt because of an independent structure fire? What if it is damaged by an earthquake? Many of the setback and other requirements cannot be met for rebuilds, due to lot size or configuration – again, this makes rebuilding impossible, as written. Local Building officials should be able to evaluate and make discretionary decisions in their jurisdictions. What if the property owner decides to sell their wildfire damaged parcel to a willing buyer, who now cannot build under a wildfire rebuild exemption? What if the current owner simply wants to make their home more spacious, or upgrade the construction or change the location of the home on their property? The regulations preclude all of these reasonable scenarios, and many more. Why would expanding the footprint of an existing home trigger the regulations? It’s not increasing the number of people in the home, just the space it occupies – this makes no sense at all. The change to the parcel split provisions is unnecessary – it has been 4 or more for a very long time – what purpose does it serve to change it to 3 parcels, and ditto for a lot line adjustment? Property owners have made plans, sometimes estate plans, hinged on this long time standard – this is another example of a taking of property. There will be a revenue consequence to the local taxing agencies – property taxes will decline, permit fees will go uncollected, development – for which there are already reasonable fire- hardening standards – will decline drastically, meaning many of the fire devastated communities will not be able to recover to the extent necessary to support local agency services, schools, parks, medical services, etc. In closing, I hope that you take a hard look at the points of concern brought up, not just by me, but by many county representatives I listened to during the meetings, and by organizations such as RCRC, who represents the interests of rural counties statewide. We must “beware of the rule of unintended consequences.” I believe that the use of other measures, such as grant or tax credit initiatives to fire-harden homes, utilization of fire resistant exterior construction techniques, enforcement of defensible space requirements, and fuels reduction along roadways, will be far more effective in improving public safety during wildfire events than these proposed regulations will engender. Respectfully submitted, Peggy Moak 13006 Concow Rd. Oroville, CA 95965 Pmoak19@gmail.com Board of Forestry and Fire Protection State of California PO Box 944246 Sacramento CA 94244-2460 Re: Draft Minimum Fire Safe Regulations, 2021 Dear Board of Forestry: This letter is regarding the “Draft Minimum Fire Safe Regulations, 2021.” I am writing to voice my strong opposition to the draft regulations as written in Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations, Division 1.5, Chapter 7 Subchapter 2, Articles 1-5, currently in the formal rulemaking public comment period. The proposed regulations would severely inhibit the building, re- building, expansion, and property transactions processes for residents living in high fire severity zones within the unincorporated county. We have seen unprecedented demand for housing, specifically affordable housing, and the proposed regulations place significant burdens on the building industry and the ability to meet demand. In fact, this may force people to circumvent the permitting process and build structures illegally, which places undue burdens on the county to enforce and potentially endangers their neighbors. The regulations are particularly onerous for those who live in counties, such as Butte, which have experienced an unprecedented loss of housing due to catastrophic fires. I urge you to consider these comments and make changes to the proposed regulations to be more inclusive of concerns raised by local government agencies and the public. Sincerely,