AND SUSTAINABILITY DESIGN
“When you think of just the economic piece—the town of Paradise lost their tax base in a day,” said Barry J. Long, Jr., AIA, LEED AP, principal and president of Urban Design Associates (UDA).
“They had to get outside funding to
backfill their tax roll to 2055.
They had naturally occurring
affordable housing in a three-county region—but much of that will be lost
because of the high cost of rebuilding.”
Long said building back affordably is
a higher priority for disaster survivors than building back to be fire
resistant.
He said many cities push back on
building codes that require more than the International Wildland-Urban
Interface (WUI) Code, which sets minimum regulations for safeguarding life and
property from the intrusion of wildfires.
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