Breckenridge Town Council is in the final stages of approving a new ordinance requiring all homeowners to establish a defensible space around their homes in order to help protect lives and property in the event of a forest fire.
Adopting the Red, White and Blue Fire Department recommendations, the defensible space ordinance would require trees or groups of trees within 30 feet of a structure to be well spaced by about 10 feet and well-pruned. Within 75 feet of a structure, trees’ crowns would need to be separated by at least 10 feet.
The new ordinance is set to be adopted and effective as of July 1st, 2009.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
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