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LaGrange Park staff recommends adopting 2024 building and fire codes; council discusses energy, EV charging and storefront window display requirement
Summary
Village staff presented a proposal to adopt the 2024 International Code Council building and fire codes and to update local amendments to comply with Illinois Public Act 103‑0510; staff also proposed a new requirement for decorative window displays on vacant ground‑floor commercial storefronts.
Village staff presented a proposal to adopt newer editions of the building and fire codes and to update local amendments to comply with Illinois Public Act 103‑0510, which the staff said requires municipalities that have adopted building codes to adopt code editions from the current year or the preceding nine calendar years.
Rich Piccolo, a building and fire code specialist, briefed the board on recommended adoption of the 2024 International Code Council family of codes (including the 2023 National Electrical Code and the Illinois plumbing, accessibility and energy codes where applicable). Piccolo described significant changes since the 2015 edition adopted locally, including stricter energy…
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