A. Requirements For Subdivisions, Or Planned Developments (see also Chapter 10-28):
1. A Fire Prevention and Control Plan shall be required with the submission of any application for plan approval of a development or preliminary plat of a subdivision, which contain areas designated as Wildfire threats areas in the Wildland/Urban Interface Fire Safety Overlay Zone, Chapter 10-28.
2. The Planning Commission shall forward the Fire Prevention and Control Plan to the Fire Chief. The Fire Chief shall review the Fire Prevention and Control Plan and submit a written report to the Planning Commission no less than seven (7) days before the scheduled hearing. The Fire Chiefs report shall be a part of the record of permits.
3. Criterion for Approval. The hearing authority shall approve the Fire Prevention and Control Plan when, in addition to the findings required by this chapter, the additional finding is made that the wildfire hazards present on the property have been reduced to a reasonable degree, balanced with the need to preserve and/or plant a sufficient number of trees and plants for erosion prevention, wildlife habitat, and aesthetics.
4. The hearing authority may require, through the imposition of conditions attached to the approval, the following requirements as deemed appropriate for the development of the property:
a. Delineation of areas of heavy vegetation to be thinned and a formal plan for such thinning.
b. Clearing of sufficient vegetation to reduce fuel load.
c. Removal of all dead and dying trees.
d. Relocation of structures and roads to reduce the risks of wildfire and improve the chances of successful fire suppression.
5. The Fire Prevention and Control Plan shall be implemented during the public improvements required of a subdivision or Performance Standards Development and shall be considered part of the subdivider's obligations for land development. The Plan shall be implemented prior to the issuance of any building permit for structures to be located on lots created by partitions and for subdivisions or Performance Standards developments not requiring public improvements. The Fire Chief, or designee, shall inspect and approve the implementation of the Fire Prevention and Control Plan, and the Plan shall not be considered fully implemented until the Fire Chief has given written notice to the Planning Commission that the Plan was completed as approved by the hearing authority.
6. In all new residential developments, provisions for the maintenance of the Fire Prevention and Control Plan shall be included in the covenants, conditions and restrictions for the development and the City shall be named as a beneficiary of such covenants, conditions and restrictions.
B. Requirements For Construction Of All Structures:
1. All new construction and any construction expanding the size of an existing structure shall have a "fuel break" as defined below.
a. A "fuel break" is defined as an area which is free of dead or dying vegetation, and has native, fast-burning species sufficiently thinned so that there is no interlocking canopy of this type of vegetation. Where necessary for erosion control or aesthetic purposes, the fuel break may be planted in slow burning species. Fuel breaks do not involve stripping the ground of all native vegetation.
b. Primary Fuel Break - A primary fuel break will be installed, maintained and shall extend a minimum of thirty feet (30') in all directions around structures, excluding fences, on the property. The goal within this area is to remove ground cover that wilt produce flame lengths in excess of one foot (1‘). Such a fuel break shall be increased by five feet (5') for each ten percent (10%) increase in slope over ten percent (10%).
c. Secondary Fuel Break - A secondary fuel break will be installed, maintained and shall extend a minimum of one hundred feet (100') beyond the primary fuel break where surrounding landscape is owned and under the control of the property owner during construction. The goal of the secondary fuel break is to reduce fuels so that the overall intensity of any wildfire is reduced through fuels control.
2. All structures shall be constructed or re-roofed with Class B or better non-wood roofing materials, as determined by the Building Ordinance. All re-roofing of existing structures in the Wildfire Lands area shall be done under approval of a zoning permit. No structure shall be constructed or re-roofed with wooden shingles, shakes, wood-product material or other combustible roofing material, as defined in the building ordinance.
a. Fuel breaks in areas which are also erosive or slope failure lands shall be included in the erosion control measures outlined in Section 10-34-8. (Ord. 2019-04, 10-16-2019)