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Fruita adopts updated building, residential and energy codes after staff-led review
Summary
Council adopted a bundled ordinance updating local adoption of model building codes to the current code cycle (2018→2024 for technical codes with the International Energy Conservation Code 2021), aligning Fruita with county practice and state mandates while staff said they tempered energy changes to limit cost impacts.
The City Council adopted Ordinance 2025-12 on July 8 to update Fruita's adopted building and related technical codes, a routine but consequential action that affects construction standards across the city. Assistant City Manager Dan Karas and Building Official Mike Mossberg presented the ordinance and described the changes, which move the city from the 2018 editions to 2024 editions for the international building, mechanical and residential codes and adopt the 2021 edition of the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) with local amendments.
Karas said the…
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