Planning Commission recommends BOCC consider adopting 2024 code cycle and Colorado LECC with local amendments
Staff proposed adopting the 2024 International Code cycle and the Colorado Low‑Energy and Carbon Code; commissioners debated local size thresholds for the 'platter' prescriptive packages, blower‑door testing and performance pathway requirements for large homes and log houses, and asked staff to bring data on permit sizes before BOCC adoption.
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Building‑department staff, led by Matt Gonzales (speaker 10), presented a proposal to adopt the 2024 International Code cycle and to incorporate the Colorado Low‑Energy and Carbon Code (LECC) for energy compliance. Gonzales said state law requires jurisdictions that amend their building code now to adopt the LECC and that all Colorado jurisdictions must eventually adopt LECC by 2030. "We are planning to go from the 2018 Icode cycle to the 2024 Icode cycle," Gonzales said, and described a proposed implementation and enforcement timeline with an anticipated enforcement date of Oct. 1, 2027 if the BOCC acts this fall.
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