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Council adopts 2025 California building standards with local technical amendments; directs study on single-stair residential buildings
Summary
The City Council adopted the 2025 California building and fire code updates with targeted local technical amendments and asked staff to study whether the city should allow modern single-stair residential buildings up to six stories, after consulting firefighters, unions, building trades and the state work group.
The San Jose City Council adopted the 2025 California building and fire codes with local technical amendments and directed staff to coordinate a study of whether modern single-stair residential buildings up to six stories should be allowed in San Jose.
Code adoption with technical clarifications: Planning, Building and Code Enforcement presented the city doption of the 2025 California codes, explaining that many prior local amendments had been incorporated into the new state codes and would be repealed from municipal code where redundant. Deputy Building Official Lisa Joyner said the city would retain a…
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