Submitted By
Tammie Grossman, Director Development Customer Services
Reviewed By
LKS
Agenda Item Title
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First Reading of An Ordinance Amending Chapter 7 ("Buildings"), Article 6 ("Residential Code") of the Oak Park Village Code to Adopt the 2018 International Residential Code as Recommended by the Building Code Advisory Commission.
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Overview
Overview
The Village periodically reviews and adopts updated building codes to attract construction growth by accepting current trends and implementing more modern approved materials and safer building practices. The Building Code Advisory Commission is recommending that the Village Board adopt the 2018 editions of the International Codes with a decreased number of amendments to simplify and streamline the building code process.
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Recommendation
Recommendation
This is a First Reading only.
Fiscal Impact
The Village intends to host remote update seminars that will educate contractors, developers, architects and other interested parties on the newly-adopted Code. These seminars are estimated to cost approximately $9,000 and will be paid out of account number 1001.46250.101.530667.
Background
On October 6, 2014, the Village adopted the 2009 edition of the International Code Council Building Codes, which was effective January 1, 2015. The Building Code Advisory Commission has spent over two years reviewing the 2018 International Code Council Building Codes and streamlining and reducing our amendments.
Oak Park has published their own codes from 1916 through the 1960's. Building codes evolve rapidly through changing trends, new technologies, and natural disasters. As the industry became more organized, three major regional code organizations became prevalent throughout the United States, ultimately merging into the International Code Council (ICC). Since the 1960's, the Village had relied on professional development of a code organization to provide a detailed and thorough code to abide by. Often sta...
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