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Altoona developer urges council to drop city master electrician, master plumber requirements; council asks staff to review
Summary
Tony Luther, a local landlord who told the Altoona City Council he is closing on a multiunit building next week, asked the council on May 12 to remove city requirements that electrical and plumbing work be performed by city-designated master electricians and master plumbers.
Tony Luther, a local landlord who told the City Council he is closing on a multiunit building next week, asked the Altoona City Council on May 12 to remove city requirements that electrical and plumbing work be performed by city-designated master electricians and master plumbers.
Luther said the city ordinances — cited as chapter 3-14 (master electricians) and chapter 5-42 (master plumbers) in his remarks — add costs on top of the Uniform Construction Code and that removing them would make renovation projects more affordable. “With the current requirements ... this equates to a $75,000 overage in expenses compared to using our preferred contractors to perform the work,” Luther said, describing his planned “three-quarter-of-a-million-dollar investment” in a…
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