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<br />Building Code Board of Appeals <br />Minutes <br />June 16, 2005 <br />Page 2 of 5 <br /> <br />from town to town. Louisville should adopt their own direction and program rather <br />than the industry driving this by themselves. This was presented to a work <br />session as a recommendation, but not presented to Longmont City council. <br />Boulder is on their third presentation to Boulder City council. Our concern is that <br />whatever is to be adopted, it will be done before Markel has to start submitting <br />their permits. <br /> <br />Mike Jones confirms that Markel is committed to Built Green Homes. <br /> <br />MP searches in his 4 point adoption paperwork, but realizes there is no <br />confirmation of Markel's commitment. Mark says he will try to come up with the <br />commitment later. <br /> <br />MJ introduces Chris Allison, City of Longmont Chief Building Official. CA comes <br />with MP & LRCAB tonight. Mike asks CA how Longmont adopted their program. <br /> <br />CA states Longmont wanted their own program. They took Boulder's program <br />and started plugging in numbers over and above Longmont's mandatory code. <br />This gives points for exceeding the mandatory code. It depends on where one <br />wants to spend money. The result is that the points are fairly low, but similar to <br />Boulder's proposal. He says they took their plan to the Master Board of Appeals. <br />Kim Calimino, from Colorado Home Builders Association, wants cities to do a <br />voluntary program. Boulder already established some hard numbers using their <br />program, which I mimicked to take to our council in Longmont. You can take <br />other programs and fill out the applications. The CBO can issue more points. The <br />bar is set pretty low for points. If Louisville has problems with developing a plan, <br />they can step back to fix and revise the program. You can take any of this <br />Longmont packet you want, and even change the name on the packet to <br />"Louisville" if you wish. We at Longmont are fine with that. We do meet with <br />council to check it in February 2008. We can amend & delete at any time in the <br />future depending on many variables. This is just for residential homes, <br />basements and remodels. Multi family apartments and condos is where <br />Longmont drew the line until there is a Leads Program. <br /> <br />RO says the IRC is open to interpretation on many arenas. <br /> <br />CA says in order to get the program out the door, he suggests take the easiest <br />way for everyone: inspectors, builders, plan reviewers, etc. He was not trying to <br />make more work for more costs for anybody. So far it is going fairly well. <br /> <br />MP asks CA what is the increase for staff time at Longmont? <br /> <br />CA answers it has been hard to say what the staff time increase is, but Longmont <br />is not very busy right now. It took forever to get through legal review. It would <br />have been so easy to take Boulder's program and go with it. He is willing to <br />