Increased Housing Costs from new building codes for new construction and remodels of existing buildings
SB 762 requires structure hardening in areas shown as high or extreme fire risk and in an area shown as Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) which means that new building codes will be adopted to require standards for materials and construction features to make buildings more resistant to fire. The Oregon Residential Specialty Code Section R327 is […]
Overview of SB-762
People became aware of SB 762 when they received a letter from the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) notifying individual property owners that their property was shown on a Wildfire Risk map as being designated as High or Extreme Risk for Wildfire. ODF scheduled a series of public meetings. The first meeting was to take […]