Building Code Board of Appeals Agenda and Packet 2013 03 21

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The Planning and Building Safety Department is in the process of finishing document after gathering citizen input and Boards/Commissions Comments. The document will be presented to the Louisville City Council on April 2, 2013 for review and discussion and then returned to City Council for final approval on April 16, 2013. A Planning Division representative will be on hand during the meeting to lead a review of the Energy Section with the BC BOA. The complete Energy Section is listed below. The highlighted text is pertinent to the BC BOA. 2012 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE ENERGY (E) The City of Louisville recognizes that protection and conservation of its local and regional environmental resources is important to city residents. Residential and commercial buildings account for nearly half of the electricity and natural gas consumed in Colorado. Building codes and policy initiatives play a critical role in ensuring that energy efficiency technologies are supported in the marketplace, and provide multiple benefits to homeowners, renters, building owners and tenants, and society at large through reduced energy demand, energy cost savings, and reduced carbon emissions energy cost savings. Policies and procedures should be examined to lessen energy consumption, waste generation, water, air, and light pollution impacts to our community. The City should also strive to promote wise use of energy resources in its own municipal operations. Principle E-1. The City should efficiently use its energy resources and continually strive to conserve energy where practical. The City should pursue cost effective measures to reduce its Policy E-1.1: dependency on non-renewable energy sources by pursuing the use of renewable energy sources for residents and businesses as well as for its municipal operations. The City should encourage building designs that maximize the use Policy E-1.2: of natural light and thus diminish the need for energy consuming supplemental lighting. The City should encourage the use of energy-efficient lighting, Policy E-1.3: appliances, and other devices in new development, redevelopment and in municipal operations. The City should encourage the use of landscaping that assists Policy E-1.4: energy savings by the use of buffers and admittance of solar energy in the winter and shade in the summer.