An architect of Oregon’s wildfire map on why he now supports repealing it The building and so-called defensible space provisions impacted 6% of the state’s roughly 1.9 million tax lots, a ...

The Oregon State Land Board, which includes Gov. Tina Kotek, Secretary of State Tobias Read and State Treasurer Elizabeth Steiner, unanimously appointed Lovell on July 9.

Oregon lawmakers have voted to repeal the state’s contentous wildfire hazard map, which subjected homeowners in certain areas at high risk of wildfires to stricter building codes.