With city and state officials moving to ensure speedy approvals for projects to rebuild areas devastated by the wildfires in Los Angeles, California’s lawmakers are being urged to expedite rules for fire mitigation strategies that will determine what can be built and where.

The state Legislature passed a bill in 2020 requiring property owners in fire-prone areas to maintain “ember-resistant zones” around their structures, buffers also known as “zone zero.”

The legislation tasked the state’s Board of Forestry and Fire Protection with writing up rules codifying fire-mitigation strategies. The rules were supposed to be in place by Jan. 1, 2023, but two years later the board is still in a “pre-rule-making” phase with no firm timetable for delivering the requirements, the Los Angeles Times reported.