Fire Abatement Fees
RIVERSIDE (CNS) – The Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved the Riverside County Fire Department’s request to attach fire mitigation charges to the tax bills of 450 property owners, whom officials say failed to pay the cost of abating weeds and other potential fire hazards around their parcels.
In a 5-0 vote without comment, the board signed off on the fire department’s cost recovery stemming from the county’s Fire Hazard Reduction Program. No property owner appeared before the board to speak.
According to the department, the owners — whose properties are located in unincorporated communities countywide — are delinquent and altogether owe a total $295,356 under the…