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Commission backs adaptive-reuse language to help convert downtown offices to housing

Building Inspection Commission · May 17, 2023
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Summary

The Building Inspection Commission supported an ordinance to add adaptive-reuse enabling language to the building code and to create an administrative manual/AB to guide conversions; CAC urged caution on seismic triggers and recommended training and existing-code equivalencies.

The commission voted May 17 to support an ordinance that amends planning and building codes to facilitate commercial-to-residential conversions downtown and to enable an adaptive-reuse manual or administrative bulletin outlining equivalencies and technical standards.

Jacob Bedliff of the Office of Economic and Workforce Development said the…

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