Placer County’s Third District Supervisor Jim Holmes testified this week at a regulatory hearing before the California Board of Forestry in Redding. The hearing was held to receive public comment on the implementation of a fire fee on structures located in State Responsibility Areas -- locations where the state has firefighting responsibilities.
The annual fee would cost up to $150 per structure for lands within the SRA, and could affect some 800,000 property owners and 31 million acres throughout the state, including rural SRA land in Placer County. The fee originated in a state budget trailer bill for fiscal year 2011-2012 and imposed the fee on all inhabitable structures within the SRA. The fee could raise as much as $85 million annually.
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