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San Bruno City Council Meeting February 8, 2011
8a. 2010 Fire & Building Codes
A
B
Three
years
the
state
of
California
adopts
a
new
set
of
building
codes,
and
these
building
codes
must
be
implemented
as
adopted
by
every
city.
However,
the
cities
are
able
to
adopt
amendments
because
of
unique
conditions
within
their
city
on
January
11
2011,
the
City
Council
wave,
the
first
reading
and
introduced
the
attached
ordinances
for
adoption,
which
are
basically
adopting
all
the
state
codes
by
reference
plus
a
number
of
local
amendments.
B
At
that
January
meeting
the
City
Council
also
adopted
a
resolution
have
the
findings
of
needs
for
these
local
amendments
and
set
the
public
hearing
date
for
today.
I
won't
go
over
all
the
code.
Amendments
we've
already
covered
those
in
two
previous
council
meetings,
they're
all
within
the
written
report
of
our
a
few
important
ones
are.
The
council
remembers
that
we
adopted
the
tier
1
measures
of
the
Green
Building
Code.
The
green
building
code
is
a
first-of-a-kind
type
building
code.
That's
requiring
sustainable
measures
be
implemented
within
buildings
within
San
Bruno.
B
We
adopted
the
tier
1
measures,
which
are
basically
the
middle
ground.
There's
the
mandatory
measures,
which
were
the
lowest
sustainability
level
in
tier
2.
We
adopted
the
tier
1.
Another
important
one
is
the
wild
while
an
urban
interface
amendment.
What
this
does
is
allows
the
building
official
Fire
Marshal
to
have
certain
materials
required
when
you're
near
eucalyptus,
Grove
or
near
some
highly
combustible
area.
Finally,
one
other
one
one,
that's
actually
one
thats
related
to
enforcement
as
well.
B
Is
it
prohibiting
the
storage
of
combustible
materials
and
multifamily
car
ports
and
garages,
and
we've
had
that
issue,
sometimes
at
the
shelter
creek
in
other
areas
within
the
city?
So
it's
good
to
see
that
amendment
with
in
here.
If
approved,
these
amendments
will
be
submitted
to
the
Building
Standards
Commission,
then
the
ordinance
will
go
into
effect.
30
days
from
now,
I
could
take
any
questions.
If
you
have
any
any
questions
for
director
through.
C
B
Basically,
there
will
be
comparable
costs,
so
even
without
these
amendments
that
price
of
construction
will
be
about
the
same
as
it
would
be.
With
these
amendments.
Most
of
these
amendments
are
just
codifying
existing
construction
practices,
for
instance,
putting
reinforcement
within
foundations.
Everyone
does
that
around
here,
because
it's
an
earthquake,
earthquake
area,
so
it
won't
add,
cost
that'll,
be
comparable
costs.
Okay,.
C
B
D
Cynical
I
was
wondering:
I
noticed
that
there
are
sections
in
each
part
of
this
that
we're
amending.
That
seem
to
be
repetitive
and
I'm
wondering
if
for
just
conciseness,
if
those
could
be
put
in
one
section
and
then
referenced
so
that
every
time
we
redo
these
or
review
them
that
we
can
just
point
back
to
one
section,
the
section
on
sequence
seems
to
be
consistent
across
all
of
them.
D
B
Know
I
don't
know
the
answer
to
that,
but
I
know
that
there's
a
standard
format.
You
have
to
follow
for
each
type
of
ordinance
and
there
does
have
to
be
some
repetition.
I
mean
what
I
wish
they
did
in
the
end
is
consolidate
the
10,000
pages
of
building
codes
into
one
easy-to-use
book,
because
that's
that
mean
that's
a
problem
in
itself
that
you
have
11-12
building
codes
with
a
thousand
pages
in
each
of
them.
You
know,
and
you
have
to
learn
all
of
those
and
inspect
for
all
of
those
codes,
but
yeah
they're
out
we'll.