General plan: environmental justice element: disadvantaged communities.
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Overview
This bill aims to improve how California’s general plans address environmental justice, specifically focusing on disadvantaged communities. It requires cities, counties, and city-counties to more actively involve these communities in the development and implementation of their environmental justice elements and related goals. The bill also extends a program that allows trained individuals to assist with defensible space assessments and home hardening efforts, and requires that training to include specific curriculum developed by the State Fire Marshal.
Key provisions
- Requires cities, counties, and city-counties to meaningfully involve disadvantaged communities in the development and implementation of environmental justice elements.
- Extends a program allowing trained individuals to support defensible space and home hardening assessments.
- Mandates that training for these individuals include curriculum from the State Fire Marshal’s ‘Home Ignition Zone/Defensible Space Inspector’ course.
- Updates Section 4291.5 to clarify the roles and responsibilities of qualified entities in defensible space assessments.
- Updates Section 4291.6 to establish a training program for third-party assessors.
- Requires a city, county, or city and county to adopt or review the environmental justice element, or the environmental justice goals, policies, and objectives in other elements, upon the earliest of the adoption or next revision of two or more elements concurrently on or after January 1, 2018, or June 30, 2028.
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