CITY of RAPID CITY Agenda Item Summary
Meeting Date: August 3, 2015		Legal and Finance Meeting Date:   April 29, 2015; May 13, 2015; July 1, 2015; July 15, 2015; July 29, 2015
Staff Contact: Brad Solon, Carla Cushman		First Reading City Council Meeting Date   May 4, 2015; August 3, 2015
		Second Reading City Council Meeting Date   August 17, 2015
Agenda Title:
First Reading, Ordinance No. 6050 An Ordinance to Amend Provisions in the International Residential Code to Address Compressible, Shifting and Expansive Soils by Amending Chapter 15.13 of the Rapid City Municipal Code
Summary:
After the Council continued Ordinance 6009 adopting the International Residential Code at its April 6, 2015 meeting, staff drafted Ordinance 6050 to accompany Ordinance 6009 to address the issue of compressible, shifting, and expansive soils. Staff met with members of the Black Hills Homebuilders and with Robert Temme, geotechnical engineer, to discuss the requirement for a geotechnical evaluation and submission of an affidavit to the City to the builder that any recommendations from the geotechnical evaluation were completed.  The BHHB and its attorney have reviewed the latest version of the ordinance and given their approval.
Funding Source & Fiscal Impact (if applicable):
N/A
Recommendation:
Action: Approve . Notes:    At its meeting on March 10, 2015, the Building Board of Appeals recommended approval of Ordinance 6009, which at the time included the language in this ordinance; Legal Finance approved 1st Reading: 4/29/2015; City Council referred back to Legal and Finance for 1st Reading: 5/4/2015;  Legal Finance continued to the July 1, 2015 Legal Finance Committee meeting: 5/13/2015; Legal Finance continued to July 15, 2015 Legal Finance Committee meeting:7/1/2015;  Legal Finance continued to July 29, 2015 Legal Finance Committee meeting:7/15/2015; Legal Finance approved 1st Reading: 7/29/2015
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Staff Memo	Ordinance		Revised Ordinance