Cheyenne committee recommends adopting 2024 building codes but keeps 2018 energy rules; tiny‑house appendix added

A Cheyenne committee on building and construction voted to forward to Monday night’s City Council meeting an ordinance on second reading to adopt the 2024 International Codes for buildings, with local amendments and technical corrections, and to retain the 2018 energy code for the city.

The recommendation to send the ordinance to council came after a staff report from Anthony Pomerleau, chief building official for the City of Cheyenne, who told the committee the city’s contractor-code adoption committee reviewed the updates and recommended adoption of the 2024 codes but to remain with the 2018 energy code. Pomerleau said most changes before the committee were grammatical or technical rather than substantive and that the state of Wyoming requires jurisdictions to adopt state‑level code updates within 180 days; the…