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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2009 0312_minutes Building Board of Appeals Town of Vail Community Development Large Conference Room 75 S. Frontage Road, W. Vail, CO 81657 3:00 PM, Thursday March 12th, 2009 Minutes Called to Order by Chairperson Fritzlen at 3:05 All members present Review and acceptance of meeting minutes of Thursday, February 12th, 2009 A motion to approve the minutes was made by Kathy Langenwalter and seconded by Rollie Kjesbo. The minutes were approved without changes. 2. Review and recommendation of the proposed submittal to the Town council adoption of an abatement code. Martin explained the differences of the International Property Maintenance Code and the Uniform Code for the Abatement of Dangerous Buildings. Major differences, the property maintenance code dealt with a lot of blight type situations that really does not apply in Vail. The dangerous building code allows us to deal with buildings that have succumbed to fire, structural failure, etc without having to address issues that really are not a concern in our community at this time. A copy of the dangerous building code was given to the board members and the property maintenance was made available for review as well, copies were not available of Property Maintenance Code. Discussion was made of the pros and cons of each code with the building official asking the board members to look over the code and come back with comments/ recommendation to Town Council at the next meeting 3. Review and recommendations for the upcoming Construction Kick off Meeting scheduled for March 25th. Martin explained the advertising and the items of discussion at the meeting. The meeting will be used to explain some policies that are proposed to be implemented such as Temporary Certificate of Occupancy processing and inspection procedures. Martin also explained the policies for these items as well as special inspection program status. 4. Status on the 2009 Code adoption Chairperson Fritzlen asked board members if they were ok with their chair assignments. All indicted yes. Martin went over the proposed procedure for the technical advisory committees. He will keep members updated. 5. Discussion of building commissioning as it relates to the future sustainable energy code to be submitted to Town Council for adoption. Members of the Town environmental team addressed the board on several options being considered. LEED certification is being looked at as one of the options. Bill Carlson of the environmental team is looking at possibly a voluntary program for the public and mandatory on Town projects. Thereby, allowing a test period for implementation. A request for input from the board was asked on the various programs the possible impact on the community. Commissioning or not to commission. Chairperson Fritzlen indicated from her experience that commissioning is key on a non-residential building. Kyle Webb expanded on this and indicated it was not that difficult to achieve compliance thru commissioning. Staff received a lot of good input on how a LEED project is commissioned and the cost involved. It was indicated a cost of 3 to 5% increase to the project was typical. The payback is excellent. 6. Items for the April 9th, 2009 meeting No additional items proposed 7. Adjournment at 4:38