(A) International Residential Code adopted by reference. To provide certain standards, provisions and requirements for regulating the design, construction, quality of materials, erection, installation, alteration, repair, location, relocation, replacement, addition to, use or maintenance of one- and two-family dwellings and providing for the issuance of permits and collection of fees therefor, each and all of the regulations, provisions, conditions and terms of the International Residential Code, 2012 edition, published by the International Code Council, are hereby adopted and incorporated by reference as though printed in full herein. Three copies of the Code shall be on file at the office of the City Clerk, available for public inspection during office hours. The provisions of the International Residential Code shall be controlling throughout the city and throughout its zoning jurisdiction.
(Prior Code, § 8-606)
(B) Additional standards; footings. The purpose of this section is to provide an additional minimum standard for the structural design and materials used to construct footings as provided for in the 2003 edition of the International Residential Code, and amendments thereto, as recommended and published by the International Code Council. Wood foundations and pole design buildings are allowed, but not within the residential zoning areas of the city nor within the platted residential areas within the city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction. In the areas where wood foundations and pole design buildings are prohibited, footings shall be concrete, solid masonry, reinforced concrete or steel grillages. For the purpose of this section, the term POLE DESIGN BUILDING is defined as it appears in AWPI, Pole Building Design 2005.
(Prior Code, § 8-608)
(C) Footing requirements for accessory buildings. Any one-story wood or metal frame building not used for human occupancy with a floor area up to 240 square feet may have a floating slab foundation or walls supported on a wood foundation plate. Any building from 240 square feet to 720 square feet: a footing one foot wide, one foot deep from grade with two #4 rebar running full length of footing and #4 rebar placed approximately every four feet into floor slab.
(Prior Code, § 8-609)
(Ord. 688, passed 2-9-2016)