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Clear Creek staff recommend adopting 2024 code cycle, wildfire‑resiliency rules and broader sprinkler requirements
Summary
Staff asked the Board to update the county building code to the 2024 ICC/WUI code in response to a new state wildfire‑resiliency requirement; presentation included restoring residential sprinkler language and adding electrical plan review authority.
Clear Creek County building department staff recommended the board update local codes to align with the latest state wildfire‑resiliency directive and the 2024 International Code Council (ICC) series, telling commissioners on Oct. 21 that Colorado Senate Bill language and a state resiliency board timeline require local adoption by mid‑2026.
The presentation by the building department summarized the proposed changes: adopt the 2024 ICC series to avoid conflicting partial adoptions, remove the county wildfire appendix now superseded by the Wildland‑Urban Interface (WUI) code, restore residential automatic sprinkler requirements for new residences built off…
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