REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL
November 17, 2016
FROM: JENNIFER CLARK, Director
Development and Resource Management Department
THROUGH: MIKE SANCHEZ, Assistant Director
Development and Resource Management Department
BY: BRIAN T. LEONG, Building and Safety Services Manager
Building and Safety Services Division
SUBJECT
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Action relating to repealing and adding Building Regulations in the Fresno Municipal Code
1. ***BILL NO. B-46 (Intro. 11/3/16) (For adoption) - Adopting express findings related to local climatic, topographical and geological conditions that make the City's amendments to the California Mechanical Code and California Plumbing Code reasonably necessary and repealing Sections 11-101 through Section 11-109 of Article1, Chapter 11 of the Fresno Municipal Code and adding Sections 11-101 through Section 11-109 of Article1, of Chapter 11 to adopt and amend the California Building, Residential, Electrical, Mechanical, Plumbing, Energy and Green Building Standards Codes.
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RECOMMENDATION
Adoption of Ordinance Bill adopting express findings related to local climatic, topographical and geological conditions that make the City's amendments to the California Mechanical Code and California Plumbing Code reasonably necessary and repealing Sections 11-101 through Section 11-109 of Article1, Chapter 11 of the Fresno Municipal Code and adding Sections 11-101 through Section 11-109 of Article1, of Chapter 11 to adopt and amend the California Building, Residential, Electrical, Mechanical, Plumbing, Energy and Green Building Standards Codes.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Every three years, the California Building Standards Code is reviewed and modified where applicable and adopted by the California Building Standards Commission. On January 20, 2016, the Commission voted to adopt the 2016 edition of the California Building Standards Code effective January 1, 2017. The 2016 California Building Standards Code includes the California Building,...
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