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Committee backs ordinance to reference state building codes by reference to avoid redundant local updates
Summary
Portland Permitting and Development won committee approval to send an ordinance to full council that removes specific code years from city titles and instead references state statutes and administrative rules, a clerical change city staff said will reduce repeated council work when the state updates codes.
Portland Permitting and Development presented an ordinance on Sept. 23 that would amend multiple sections of Portland City Code to adopt the state building codes by reference and remove hard-coded edition years from city titles.
Interim director David Kienhausen and code analyst Jody Orrison told the committee the proposed changes are clerical and intended to let city code automatically track the edition adopted by the State of Oregon via statute and administrative rule rather than requiring a separate ordinance every three years when the state updates codes. Orrison described the operational burden: preparing a single code-update ordinance previously required substantial staff time (she estimated roughly 60 staff hours for the June…
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