It is the intent of the City Council, by this subchapter, to provide for the health, safety and welfare of its citizens and to provide for the orderly development of the city by establishing standards for property which is to be subjected to residential horizontal property regimes (condominiums) and multiple-housing cooperatives (co-ops). It is the intent of the City Council to assure that all property to be used for residential purposes must at the time a horizontal property regime or multiple-housing cooperative is established meet current Building Code standards and requirements. It is the intent of the City Council in regard to the conversion of structures to horizontal property regimes or the conversion of structures to multiple-housing cooperatives that such change should provide the residents living in such structures adequate protection by meeting the current health, safety and welfare standards of the city. This subchapter is in part enacted to assure residents that such standards herein provided will be maintained.
(2011 Code, § 20.0700) (Ord. 2201, passed 10-31-2012)