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County staff propose streamlined residential energy path and home‑hardening rules amid cost concerns
Summary
Coconino County staff proposed adopting the 2024 building-code suite with a simplified, five‑item prescriptive energy path for residential builds and targeted home‑hardening rules in the wildland‑urban interface, saying the approach balances safety and affordability while participants raised questions about costs, snow loads and electrical capacity for future electrification.
County staff presented proposed amendments to local building codes that would adopt the 2024 model-code suite broadly while keeping the county on a simpler, largely 2018‑based approach for most requirements and adding a county-specific prescriptive path for residential energy compliance.
At a meeting of the county’s building‑code advisory group, the staff member leading the presentation said the county would offer a five‑item prescriptive package "that these are the five things you need to meet" so owner‑builders and small contractors do not have to navigate the 2024 code’s 51‑option compliance path. The staff member said the package is "easily attainable, relatively inexpensive" and estimated a typical townhome would gain about 13% in efficiency with about a $100 increase in permit fees on the example they priced out.
The nut graf: staff said the narrower path is designed to keep inspections and…
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