Fire Code Updates Coming Soon
The City of Temple Development Standards Advisory Board, stakeholder groups, and several City departments have been meeting for much of the past year to provide for some local amendments to the 2006 International Fire Code which the City of Temple will likely consider for adoption in early November.
As is normally the case, the City of Temple has invited TABA to the table during negotiation of the requirements of the 2006 IFC.
The draft amendments were produced to provide flexibility in design of developments where culdesacs and secondary entrances are of concern. The goal of the subcommittee was to provide design alternatives which enable similar accessibility and maneuverability (into and within a subdivision) as to those levels of which the international code requires.
The Development Standards Advisory Board will consider the recommendations of their subcommittee at a meeting on September 24th. (Note: the date is not the same we initially reported in the hard copy of the TABA newsletter.) Should the work be approved, the Planning and Zoning Commission will take the items up during their October meetings and it is anticipated that the City Council will review the Fire Code in it’s entirety on November 6th. If you’d like to take a look at the final draft recommendations, they are available on the presentations page of the TABA website. I will be glad to direct comments of any of our TABA members to the proper departments. Rural Builders the Time Has Come
September 1st has come and gone and that means significant changes for builders who are planning projects outside city limits. Not only will they be dealing with the new TRCC 3rd Party Inspection requirements, rural builders will also be dealing with associated changes that will come about as a result of the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulations adoption of 2008 National Electric Code installation requirements. For more read here . Significant NEC changes include:
-- GFCI Protection Requirements for Receptacles in Dwelling Unit Garages
-- Combination-type AFCI-protective Devices
-- Equipment Grounding Conductors Supplying Separate Structures
-- NM Cables (Romex) in Attics
-- Tamper Resistant Receptacles in Dwelling Units.
If you need more information, please call TABA and we’ll be glad to try and help. Love Cures
It isn’t often that the Board of Director’s at TABA is able to turn the staff loose on community projects. The sheer number of requests that we receive would keep us busy year in and year out if the Board said yes to every one. It is with that in mind that they usually keep to the policy to turn down requests for assistance with community projects and spread the word through our membership base to assist with worthy causes.
Proudly, the Board has recently opted to go against policy and is allowing TABA resources to be used as a venue to spread the word about a local project. This project should be near and dear to almost every member of TABA. As it has almost all of us on a personal level, cancer continuously impacts our membership base.
Impressively, one of our TABA members has decided to try to do something about cancer and he wants to involve the whole community in his project. The project is called Love Cures. The organization and effort is the brain child of Chuck Lucko of All County Surveying. Chuck has developed the initiative to honor the memory of his business partner Robert S. Love, who died of cancer in 2002.
Love Cures provides a local venue to support the search for the cure for cancer. All proceeds will go directly toward the search for a cure at the renowned Scott & White Cancer Research Institute, which is currently working to develop a cure for many types of cancer.
As mentioned above, cancer impacts us all. Just last year alone 1.4 million people were diagnosed with it. You’ve likely experienced this disease yourself on a very personal level. If you haven’t had it yourself, it is likely a close friend or relative has. Cancer crosses party lines, school district boundaries, municipalities, races, sexes, etc—it does not discriminate.
I am extremely grateful that the TABA Board has enabled me to be a member of a committee that is working to assure the success of Love Cures, if you have any questions, please give me a call.
Please consider helping in the fight against cancer. There are all kinds of ways to do so—read here for more. Support Love Cures!
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