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Staff and fire, building safety push occupancy and change-of-use language into UDO review
Summary
City staff briefed the committee on draft changes to occupancy and change-of-use requirements intended to reduce stop-work orders and safety risks by clarifying inspection and permit expectations; staff will route draft language through planning commission as part of Article 9 UDO amendments.
City building-safety and fire department staff told the Carmel land use committee they are working on ordinance language to require clearer change-of-use and occupancy procedures for mixed‑use and industrial zones, and to align those rules with the ongoing Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) review.
Mike Halabaugh (DOCS staff) said the building safety and fire departments have been “really interested in updating the language to, allow, or to to better facilitate” inspections and clearer requirements for change-of-use and occupancy, and that draft language would come back as part of…
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