City Council
MEETING DATE: 10/26/2016
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2016 Building and Fire Codes Adoption, Second Reading
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FROM:
Paul Wilson, Fire Chief
Albert Jimenez, Building Official
RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Staff recommends the City Council conduct a second reading, by Title only, of an Ordinance which proposes adoption of the 2016 editions of the California Building and Fire Codes with the requisite findings in support of local additions and amendments to the codes.
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BACKGROUND:
In January, 2016 the State of California adopted a complete set of new building and fire codes based on the latest national and international model building and fire codes. These codes, known as the California Building Standards Code (BSC), have been adopted as Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations, and were published in July, 2016. While many of the national model code standards have been incorporated into the BSC, it is the BSC that applies in all parts of California, not the model codes. The new codes are effective January 1, 2017 and are immediately applicable to all building permits submitted after that date, unless the City adopts amendments on or prior to that date.
The City is permitted to adopt local additions and amendments to Building Standards Code, provided the additions and amendments are based on findings that the additions and amendments are necessary due to local climatic, topographic or geological conditions.
Any additions and amendments adopted by the City are not effective until copies of both the express findings and the additions and amendments, with the additions and amendments expressly marked and identified as to the applicable findings, have been filed with the California Building Standards Commission.
On October 12, 2016, the Cathedral City City Council approved the ordinance as presented.
DISCUSSION:
The Codes:
The BSC is a compilation of three types of building standards from three different origins:
? Building standards th...
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