State Assembly backs away from tax credit for defensible space
May 1st, 2008 Categories: Real Estate News, San Diego County Community News, San Diego county Real Estate News
SAN DIEGO– With the recent memories of the wildfires and the talk of a possible early fire season this struck me as pertinent to our area.
The state assembly is seemingly backing away from a proposed tax credit that would have been given to homeowners who cleared defensible space around their homes.
The critics of this bill wondered why we should be rewarding homeowners 
for ‘following the law and common sense’. I think another good reason maybe the reported $16 billion budget deficit, that prompted the Govenator to declare a ‘fiscal emergency’. I will admit that the estimated cost to the state of $4 million a year is not much compared to $16 billion, but there are some teachers, parents and students that would argue the importance of this savings.
