Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code Board Sets Minimum WUI Standards

(4) Powers and duties. (a) The mission of the board is to ensure that Colorado communities are safer from and more resilient to wildfires by reducing the risk to people and property through the adoption of statewide codes and standards based on best practice approaches to hardening structures and reducing fire risk in the defensible space surrounding structures in the wildland-urban interface in Colorado. (b) In furtherance of its mission, the board shall promulgate rules in accordance with article 4 of this title 24 concerning the adoption of minimum codes and standards for hardening structures and reducing fire risk in the defensible space surrounding structures in the wildland- urban interface in Colorado. Notwithstanding section 24-1-105 (1)(c) or any other law to the contrary, the rules promulgated by the board are not subject to approval or modification by the director or the executive director.