Building Code Board of Appeals Agenda and Packet 2013 10 17

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building codes provides additional energy conservation and best building practices which are both recognized as a sustainable community practices; and, WHEREAS, a third core value of the City in the 2013 Comprehensive Plan promotes: A Balanced Transportation System . . . where the City desires to make motorists, transit customers, bicyclists and pedestrians of all ages and abilities partners in mobility, and where the City intends to create and maintain a multimodal transportation system to ensure that each user can move in ways that contribute to the and balancing the design of the streets which ensure appropriate fire access and multimodal safety is necessary to ensure overall safety to the community; and, WHEREAS, a fourth core value of the City in the 2013 Comprehensive Plan promotes: maintain safe, thriving and livable neighborhoods so residents of all ages experience a and requiring sprinklers in all residential structures along with requiring best engineering practices to create safer streets will ensure safer neighborhoods in Louisville; and, WHEREAS, after a duly noticed public hearing held September 19, 2013 and continued to October 17, 2013, where evidence and testimony were entered into the record, the Louisville Building Code Board of Appeals and City staff reviewed the 2012 Editions of the International Building Code, International Residential Code, International Mechanical Code, International Fuel Gas Code, International Energy Conservation Code, International Fire Code, International Plumbing Code, Existing Building Code and the most recent State adopted Edition of the National Electrical Code and recommends adoption of the same to the City Council; and WHEREAS, the City Council, after proper notice as required by law, has held a public hearing on this ordinance providing for the adoption of said codes; and NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LOUISVILLE, COLORADO: Section 1. Chapter 15.04 of the Louisville Municipal Code is hereby repealed and reenacted, with amendments, to read as follows (words added are underlined; words deleted are stricken through): Sec. 15.04.010. Adoption. The International Building Code, 2012 2009 Edition, published by the International Code Council, 4051 West Flossmoor Road, Country Club Hills, Illinois, 60478, is hereby adopted by reference thereto and incorporated into and made a part of 2