RES-2005-016 Orange County's 2005 Legislative Agenda

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ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING & INSPECTIONS DEPARTMENT Craig N. Benedict, AICP, Director Administration ~~` , ~ °'P 306E Revere Road (919) 245-2575 ~r ~ ~ P O Box 8181 (919) 644-3002 (FAx) ~Q Hillsborough, www.co.orange.nc.us ~'°<<~ Cac°~~~~ North Carolina, 27278 MEMORANDUM TO: Orange County Board of Commissioners FROM: Susan Mellott, Code Enforcement Supervisor DATE: March 11, 2005 SUBJECT: North Carolina Rehabilitation Code COPIES: John M. Link, Jr., County Manager Dave Stancil, Environment and Resource Conservation Director Craig N. Benedict, Planning and Inspections Director Cathleen Turner, Executive Director, Alliance for Historic Hillsborough Margaret Schucker, Hillsborough Historic District Commission Tina Moon, Planner II The North Carolina Code Council, the governing body that amends, prepares and adopts the North Carolina Building Code, submitted for rulemaking the provision to adopt the Rehabilitation Code on December 14, 2004. The motion to grant this petition carried. The public hearing was conducted on March 7, 2005, with only one comment to amend the adoption of the Code as written. There will be an addendum to the Rehabilitation Code clarifying the references and applicability of the North Carolina Accessibility Code. The Rehabilitation Code will be considered for final adoption at the June 2005 Building Code Council meeting, which would make the Rehabilitation Code effective statewide, on January 1, 2006. This adoption will make available to the development/code enforcement community the option of three codes that will be applicable to `existing buildings': o The Rehabilitation Code, o Chapter 24 of the 2006 North Carolina Building Code (Commercial only) and o Volume IX Existing Building Code (Commercial only) All three will be available for use on existing building projects. The project designer would make a determination which code they would use for a specific project, the codes would not be interchangeable.