Building official outlines process to adopt 2024 model codes; HB 738 requires public hearing on residential and building codes
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The city’s chief building official told the Plano City Council the municipal code update to the 2024 International Code Council model codes will come to the council for adoption on June 9 after regional and local review.
Celso Mata, chief building official in the building inspections department, told council the city intends to adopt the 2024 model building codes and will bring the package to council for adoption on June 9. Mata outlined a four-step process: reliance on the International Code Council’s 3-year cycle, regional amendment review with the North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG), vetting and amendment review by the Building Standards Commission, and then final adoption by the council.
Mata described a regional coordination process in which technical groups (energy, electrical, building, residential, fire, plumbing and mechanical) develop regional amendments and the region’s executive board reviews the package before local adoption. He emphasized that the only voting members in the regional code hearing are code officials and said the process typically spans multiple meetings across the code cycle.
Mata also cited recent state legislation: “House bill 7 38 requires us to review them at a public hearing, only reviewing the residential code and the building code before we adopt them for an official ordinance,” he said. That statute requires the local public hearing step for those code elements. Mata said the regional and local vetting work began earlier in the year and that the Building Standards Commission has already reviewed proposed amendments; staff will bring the final package to council for adoption.
Council did not take final action at the meeting; staff indicated the item is scheduled for the June adoption meeting and invited questions.
