Hazel Park council adopts human-rights amendment and updates building code language

Hazel Park’s City Council on June 9 approved code changes affecting the city’s Human Rights chapter and moved forward with a building-code update.

On a second reading the council adopted amendments to Title 18 (Human Rights) that add or revise definitions for family and relationship structure and modify exemptions (sections 18.02.030, 18.02.040 and 18.02.050). The ordinance sponsor was identified as Council member Luke Lando, who was excused from the meeting; the council moved and approved the ordinance on second reading.

Administration presented a proposed revision to Municipal Code Chapter 15.04 to adopt current Michigan building and residential codes. James Finley, staff present to answer questions, summarized the intent: “What you're doing is you're adopting the Michigan building code and residential code.” Council approved the ordinance on its first reading and the administration recommended approval.

Council members noted these code updates are routine maintenance to ensure local regulations align with state standards and to clarify human-rights definitions; no roll-call vote tallies appear in the transcript. Staff will implement the building-code adoption and integrate the human-rights ordinance amendments into the municipal code.