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Atherton council approves first reading to adopt 2025 state building codes; fire officials clarify sprinkler, ADU rules
Summary
Council gave first reading to a proposed ordinance adopting the 2025 state building codes and heard technical clarifications from the town building official and the Menlo Park fire marshal on lithium battery provisions, ADU exemptions and sprinkler thresholds.
At a public hearing on Dec. 17 the Atherton Town Council introduced, by title, an ordinance to adopt the 2025 state building codes and amend Town Municipal Code Title 15. Fred Lustenberger, the town’s building official, said the triannual code update is largely unchanged this cycle and becomes effective statewide on Jan. 1.
Council members asked whether new language on lithium batteries (cited in code sections 703.2.10.3 and 905.3.11 in the proposed amendments) would require sprinkler…
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