A fire burns in the hills above Saratoga, California, Monday afternoon, July 17, 2017 (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
Building a home on Saratoga’s hillside has been made a bit easier.
After new state guidelines thwarted several housing developments from being built in very high fire hazard zones across California, Saratoga adopted a process to bypass some of those restrictions locally.
The process, which city council passed unanimously March 1, calls for a review of housing developments in these zones on a case-by-case basis to waive road improvement requirements.
CalFire added new requirements for housing developments in high fire risk areas to reduce