City Council on 2025-08-26 5:00 PM - SPECIAL MEETING

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What opening formalities and pledges are performed at the start of the council meeting?

Unknown 2:59

Okay, good evening, everyone. Welcome to the Mountain View City Council special meeting of August 26th, 2025. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge

Nipur Harmath 3:16

allegiance to the

Unknown 3:18

flag. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the Mountain View City Council special meeting of August 26, 2025. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance

Shanee Kleinhaus 3:34

to the flag.

Unknown 3:36

Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the Mountain View City Council special meeting of August 26, 2025. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the

Nipur Harmath 3:52

flag.

Unknown 3:54

Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the Mountain View City Council special meeting of August 26, 2025. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. I

Nipur Harmath 4:08

pledge allegiance to the

Unknown 4:11

flag. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the Mountain View City Council special meeting of August 26, 2025. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the Mountain View City Council special meeting of August 26, 2025. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the Mountain View City Council special meeting of August 26, 2025. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the Pledge of Allegiance.

Farhad Farman 5:13

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the pledge of allegiance

Unknown 6:52

All right, I think we can try to reconvene. Hopefully the technical issues are resolved. So we can move on to item three, which is roll call. The city clerk will take attendance by roll call. Council Member Clark. Here. Council Member Hicks. Here. Council Member McAllister. Here. Council Member Ramirez. Here.

How is roll call conducted and is there a quorum for this special meeting?

Unknown 7:11

Council Member Showalter. Here. Vice Mayor Ramos. Here. Mayor Kimme. Here. Do you have a quorum? Great, thank you very much. So we'll move on to item four, which is our public hearing. Item 4.1 is about our 2025 building codes update. Assistant Community Development Director Lindsay Hagan and Chief Building Official Nina Bizjak, did I say that right? Okay, will present the item. If you'd like to speak on this item in person, please submit a blue speaker card to the city clerk now. We'll start with the staff presentation.

Lindsay Hagan 7:52

Good evening, Mayor and Council Members. I'm Lindsay Hagan, Assistant Community Development Director, and I'm joined tonight by Nina Bizjak, the Chief Building Official, to present the 2025 Building Codes Update. Starting with some of the background on the building codes, the formal name of the codes that we're primarily talking about tonight are the California Building Standards Code, which is adopted as part of the California Code of Regulations, or Title 24. This code regulates various aspects of all building occupancies in California, including things like construction, sustainability, life safety, as well as other provisions. It's overseen by the California Building Standards Commission, or CBSC for short, and it's updated every three years to incorporate new technologies, latest advancements, lessons learned, and enhance safety.

Lindsay Hagan 8:42

All cities in California are responsible for enforcing this code, and local amendments to this code by cities is allowed, but they must be accepted by the CBSC and are restricted to really two areas. One is administrative or procedural in nature, Local amendments can also be more stringent than state code provisions, but local cities have to adopt findings due to local climatic, geological, or topographical conditions. Staff has incorporated those findings in attachment four to the staff report. I'm talking a little bit more about the California Building Standards Code. This code is often just referred to as the state code. It's comprised of 13 parts. Each one of these parts listed on your screen is really in and of itself individual codes.

Lindsay Hagan 9:32

So really this code is a pretty substantial code. I do want to highlight a couple of the particular parts. Part seven, which is highlighted on here, is a new code that was brought into this 2025 cycle.

What are the main highlights of the 2025 Building Codes Update presentation?

Lindsay Hagan 9:45

It's the California Wildland Urban Interface Code. It's in response to a lot of the wildfires that California has seen in the last couple years and requires certain building REQUIREMENTS AND MATERIALS TO BE USED IN FIRE PRONE AREAS OF CALIFORNIA.