Tag Archives: 1997 UBC

Kayla Desroches/KMXT A borough assembly regular meeting tonight will bring a recurring building code issue to the floor. The assembly is investigating a conditional move back to the 2012 International Residential Code with exceptions for certain residences in the borough. It frustrated the city council last summer when it decided to revert back to the 1997 Uniform Building Code without …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT If the City of Kodiak hopes the Kodiak Island Borough will reconsider a recent change in building code, the borough assembly has so far not made any moves in that direction. If anything, it’s educating itself more on its shift back to the 1997 Uniform Building Code. The city and borough currently have a memorandum of agreement to …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak City Council is in the process of gathering facts about a building code change the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly recently passed without the council’s knowledge. The assembly made the switch from the 2012 building code to the 1997 uniform building code in an attempt to relax engineering requirements for home owner / builders in the borough. …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Earlier this month, the Kodiak City Council discovered the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly had passed an ordinance which violates a memorandum of agreement between the two governing bodies. The agreement allows for a building inspection program that serves both the city and borough, but the borough assembly had recently taken action to relax engineering requirements for home owner …

Kayla Desroches/KMXT An ordinance for public hearing at the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly regular meeting Thursday sprung from public concern about engineering requirements. Those community voices spurred an attempt to relax restrictions for home owners building residences in the borough. At the regular meeting, Assemblyman Larry LeDoux spoke about the ordinance’s beginnings. “When I decided to run for the assembly …