A bill for an ordinance amending the Building and Fire Code of the City and County of Denver. Amends Article II, Chapter 10 of the Denver Revised Municipal Code to add amendment package 6 to the Denver Building Code and Denver Fire Code Amendments, to implement a new occupancy group, the R-X Occupancy Group, that generally provides for residential occupancy in sleeping units with an associated detached community building. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 7-2-19.
Thank you, Mr. President. Bill, 6 to 8 looks innocuous enough. It's a little change to the building and fire code of the city and county in Denver. But sometimes embedded in mundane city regulations are either barriers to those who are fighting for an equal opportunity to live and thrive in our community and opportunities. And so this is one of those changes which has been needed for some time to help pave the way for more tiny home villages. I want to first commend our building officials, Scott Prisco and his team, and all the folks who found ways to do variances repeatedly to be able to build the first tiny home village and then to move it to a new fight site. But we don't want there to have to be special exceptions each time. And so this building code amendment is a first step to making sure that relocated buildings can be built without foundations where they meet certain zoning requirements that will go through in a parallel ordinance that is going to be hopefully before this council at the end of the summer and into the fall. But it will also just enshrine some other minor changes to the bathroom codes and other things that will hopefully lower the barriers for tiny home villages. So I'm not calling this out for a vote, but I just want to call it out to thank the staff who is really my partner in finding a path to get this before the council much quicker than it would have if it waited for the rest of the building code amendments in the fall and to the beloved village and the folks with their team, both architects and construction folks who've really helped the city understand the kinds of flexibility needed to make temporary uses like this a little easier to get through the city system. So with that, I'm excited that this is on consent and it's the final reading. So after this, they will be able to take advantage of it. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Kenny. That concludes the items to be called out this evening. Our bills for introduction are ordered published and we're now ready for the block vote on resolutions and bills on final consideration. Council members remember that this is a consent or block vote and you will need to vote by otherwise.