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SARATOGA CITY COUNCIL
MEETING DATE: December 15, 2010 AGENDA ITEM:
DEPARTMENT: Community Development CITY MANAGER: Dave Anderson
PREPARED BY: Brad Lind & Richard Taylor DIRECTOR: John Livingstone
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SUBJECT: Public Hearing and Adoption of (1) Ordinance Adopting and Amending 2010 California
Building Standards Building, Residential Building, Electrical, Mechanical, Plumbing,
Fire, and Green Building Standards Codes with Modifications for Local Conditions, and
(2) Resolution regarding the need to modify the California Building Code due to local
conditions.
RECOMMENDED ACTIONS:
(1) Conduct a public hearing concerning the attached ordinance and resolution introduced at
the City Council meeting of December 1, 2010;
(2) Adopt the Ordinance Adopting and Amending 2010 California Building Standards
Building, Residential Building, Electrical, Mechanical, Plumbing, Fire, and Green
Building Standards Codes with Modifications for Local Conditions; and
(3) Adopt Resolution Adopting Findings of Fact regarding the need to modify the California
Building Code due to local conditions.
REPORT SUMMARY:
At its meeting of December 1, 2010, the City Council conducted the first of two meetings on the
attached ordinance and resolution adopting and amending the updated building, residential building,
electrical, mechanical, plumbing, fire, and green building standards codes. (The staff report and table
summarizing the ordinance for the December 1 are included as Attachment C.) The Council introduced
the ordinance and resolution at the earlier meeting and directed that (1) the ordinance be revised to
include amendments to the City’s sustainability code and (2) the findings of fact adopted by resolution
include additional details regarding amendments to the Fire Code. The attached ordinance (Attachment
A) and resolution (Attachment B) reflect these changes. The Council also requested that staff seek to
obtain a summary of the changes from the prior version of the State Building Code in this new version.
No concise summary has been identified. However, the State’s Building Standards Commission provides
detailed information on the Codes on its website: http://www.bsc.ca.gov/.
ADVERTISING, NOTICING AND PUBLIC CONTACT: Notice of this meeting. Notice for
ordinance adoption was published in the Saratoga News on November 20, 2010 and the San Jose Mercury
News on December 10, 2010.
ATTACHMENTS:
Attachment A – Ordinance
Attachment B – Resolution Adopting Findings of Fact
Attachment C – Staff Report for December 1, 2010 City Council Meeting (with Attachment 1 only)