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RESOLUTION NO.____________
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FOSTER CITY RATIFYING ORDINANCE 2025-001, AS ADOPTED BY THE SAN MATEO CONSOLIDATED FIRE DEPARTMENT (SMC FIRE) BOARD ON MAY 21, 2025, WHICH WOULD MAKE CERTAIN AMENDMENTS TO ORDINANCE 2022-001 (THE SMC FIRE DEPARTMENT FIRE CODE) BY ADOPTING THE 2021 INTERNATIONAL FIRE CODE WITH THE 2022 CALIFORNIA FIRE CODE AMENDMENTS AND THE 2021 WILDLAND URBAN
INTERFACE CODE WITH LOCAL FINDINGS AND MODIFICATIONS
CITY OF FOSTER CITY
WHEREAS, the Cities of Belmont, San Mateo, and Foster City are a part of the San Mateo Consolidated Fire Department (SMC Fire), a Joint Powers Authority, which officially commenced operations on January 13, 2019; and WHEREAS, the SMC Fire Board adopted an ordinance adopting the fire hazard severity zone maps recommended by the State Fire Marshal on May 21, 2025 (Ordinance 2025-002); and
WHEREAS, as a result of the changes to the fire hazard severity zone maps, SMC Fire needed to update the SMC Fire Code Ordinance (Ordinance 2022-001) to amend the wildland provisions to be consistent with the new hazard designation; and WHEREAS, the SMC Fire Board also considered amendments to the wildland provisions at its meeting on May 21, 2025 and adopted Ordinance 2025-001; and WHEREAS, Section VI of Ordinance 2025-001 makes various findings to support the amendments to the 2021 International Fire Code and the 2022 California Fire Code (Title 24, Part ) and the 2021 International Wildland Urban Interface Code, which specify that the amendments are needed and reasonably necessary due to local climatic, geological, and topographical conditions as set forth in Attachment 1 of Ordinance 2025- 001; and
WHEREAS, SMC Fire is now providing Foster City with the modifications to the SMC Fire Code made by Ordinance 2025-001 for ratification as required by Health and Safety Code section 13869.7(a)-(c); and
WHEREAS, the amendments made by Ordinance 2025-001 will not be effective within the City until the ordinance is ratified by the Council pursuant to California Health and Safety Code section 13869.7(c); and
WHEREAS, the ratification of Ordinance 2025-001 is not subject to review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Public Resources Code 3 5
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Section 21000, et seq. and the CEQA Guidelines (14 Cal. Code Regs. §§ 15000 et. seq.), including without limitation, Public Resources Code section 21065 and California Code of Regulations 15378 as this is an administrative action and not a “project” that may cause a direct, or reasonably foreseeable indirect, physical change in the environment; and WHEREAS, the Council considered Ordinance 2025-001 and the findings stated therein, at a public meeting on June 16, 2025.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Foster City does hereby ratify, in its entirety, Ordinance 2025-001, attached hereto, as adopted by the SMC Fire Board at its meeting on May 21, 2025,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, the Council hereby directs the City Clerk to transmit a copy of this Resolution to the SMC and file a copy of SMC’s findings, together with the adopted ordinance, with the State Department of Housing and Community Development within 15 days of June 16, 2025 and take any other action necessary to comply with the requirements of Health and Safety Code section 13869.7.
PASSED AND ADOPTED as a resolution of the City Council of the City of Foster City at the regular meeting held on the 16th day of June, 2025, by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
STACY JIMENEZ, MAYOR
ATTEST:
PRISCILLA SCHAUS, CITY CLERK