TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Planning and Building Services and Environmental Health
MEETING DATE: November 14, 2017
DEPARTMENT CONTACT:
Trey Strickland
PHONE:
234-6639
DEPARTMENT CONTACT:
Nash Gonzalez
PHONE:
234-6650
ITEM TYPE: Regular Agenda
TIME ALLOCATED FOR ITEM: 30 Mins
AGENDA TITLE:
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Discussion and Possible Adoption of Urgency Ordinance Establishing Requirements and Procedures for the Removal of Fire Debris from Private Property and Nuisance Abatement Following the Redwood Complex Fire
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RECOMMENDED ACTION/MOTION:
recommendation
Adopt Urgency Ordinance establishing requirements and procedures for the removal of fire debris from private property and nuisance abatement following the Redwood Complex Fire; and authorize Chair to sign same.
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PREVIOUS BOARD/BOARD COMMITTEE ACTIONS:
None.
SUMMARY OF REQUEST:
Government Code section 25131 provides that ordinances shall become effective thirty (30) days from the date of final passage, except for certain ordinances which become effective immediately. An ordinance for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, which contains a declaration of the facts constituting the urgency, and is passed by a four-fifths vote of the board of supervisors, shall take effect immediately. Government Code section 25131 specifies that an urgency ordinance may be passed immediately upon introduction.
The Redwood Complex Fire has burned over 35,000 acres and destroyed several hundred residences and other structures. As a result, the debris resulting from the Redwood Complex Fire contains hazardous substances in the ash of the burned structures and poses a significant present and future hazard to public health and safety and to the environment unless it is addressed and managed in a timely manner. Additionally, the approaching rain and snow season threatens to spread the hazardous substances in the ash of the burned structures and could thereby pollute and cont...
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