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DBI reports tougher tall-building review, cost-recovery ordinance and a payment-adapter hiccup in solar tracking project
Summary
DBI staff updated the commission on tightened tall-building review rules (S18), a Board-passed cost-recovery ordinance due to take effect in April, a vendor contractual issue affecting a solar permit web payment adapter, and DBI financials showing year-over-year revenue softening.
Assistant Director Ron Tom told the commission that DBI has strengthened its tall-building review process: Information Sheet S18 (interim guidelines) was reissued with requirements for two technical geotechnical reviewers on design-review teams for tall buildings in soft soils unless foundations extend to bedrock, and owners must monitor settlement for 10 years with annual reporting to DBI. DBI also completed a prequalified pool of structural and geotechnical reviewers and said the Board passed cost-recovery legislation in…
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