The San Diego Bonus ADU program has many flaws but of chief concern for urban wildfire safety are those aspects that allow dense construction in the urban wildland interface without consideration for safe evacuation. The regulation modifications related to urban wildfire safety are listed and annotated below. City Council will be doing a second reading…

SB79 will eliminate residential zoning by creating a statewide overlay that will allow five to seven story buildings on any land within a radius of transportation even if the transportation services are planned decades in the future without funding. Why this is an urban wildfire risk has to do with housing density in areas that…