The Santa Clarita City Council considered issues of the environment, housing and justice when it took positions on several pieces of state and federal legislation Tuesday night.
Council members cast their votes on the legislation as part of their agenda’s consent calendar, which features a variety of business items.
Of the four state Senate bills opposed by the council, two – SB 12 and SB 778 – seek to eat into local control of land use.
SB 12 proposes to use the very high fire hazard severity zone designation to restrict development in those areas.
A local government, like the city of Santa Clarita, wouldn’t be allowed to approve new residential construction or occupancy-increasing construction in very high fire hazard severity zones unless the city could show compliance with “wildfire risk reduction standards” established by the proposed law.