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Sumner County recommends adding exterior-structure rules to property code and sets 90-day limit for storage containers
Summary
County staff inserted International Property Maintenance Code exterior-structure provisions into Chapter 5 of local health and safety standards and recommended the amended document to the planning commission, including a 90-day time limit for on-site storage containers with potential short extensions by the authority having jurisdiction.
Sumner County staff recommended that the county adopt new exterior-building requirements into Chapter 5 of the county's property maintenance and health-and-safety standards and set a 90-day limit for shipping-container-style storage on private property.
The recommendation, discussed at the meeting, would import the exterior-structure provisions of the International Property Maintenance Code into the county's Chapter 5 while stopping short of adopting the International Property Maintenance Code in full because much of that code addresses interior conditions staff said would be intrusive to inspect. County staff said the amended Chapter 5 will go to the Planning Commission to check zoning…
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