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El Paso County court moves to publish public hearing notice on unified fire code and outdoor business rules
Summary
After years of post-fire reviews and stakeholder outreach, commissioners voted to publish notice for a public hearing on an outdoor business order and signaled intent to consider adopting the International Fire Code 2021 for unincorporated county areas.
The El Paso County Commissioners Court voted Sept. 15 to publish public notice for an Oct. 20 public hearing on a proposed outdoor business order and to continue consideration of a countywide fire code to address repeated fires at outdoor businesses.
Commission staff and policy advisers presented a two-part approach developed after two years of research and community outreach: (1) adopt a unified county fire code (the countyis recommending the International Fire Code 2021 without amendments as a baseline) and (2) adopt an outdoor business order with licensing and operational standards for…
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