Aoka's February Newsletter
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Dallas rental property owners can now perform their own annual inspections to free up code compliance staff to tackle properties with persistent code violations. Multifamily rental properties must score 90% or higher on an initial inspection to qualify, with single-family rental properties eligible by resolving all violations from an initial inspection. Code compliance staff will still audit properties in the program and any with too many violations will be kicked out. About 65% of the city’s multifamily rental properties would qualify for the program.?
North Carolina may soon update its energy conservation code to align with the latest international standards, with new efficiency standards possibly saving up to 16% of energy use in homes. Currently, North Carolina’s building code is outdated, with thicker wall insulation, for example, impossible to install after construction. While the proposed update still faces hurdles, it has the potential to help North Carolina reach its climate targets, save money for homeowners, and improve public health. A public hearing on the updated code is scheduled for March 2023.?
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States are turning their attention to the transmission lines, substations, and transformers needed to get renewable electricity from wind farms and solar plants into homes and businesses. Many states have set ambitious goals and incentives to promote renewable electricity projects and to meet these goals they need to expand the grid, which will also help to support the growing number of electric vehicles, heat pumps, and other technologies requiring electricity. However, the expansion of the grid infrastructure will not be easy, it can take much longer to plan, permit, and build transmission lines and other distribution infrastructure than to launch solar and wind operations, and there are often disagreements about who should bear the cost.?
Denver developer Max Muller experienced lengthy delays and unexpected costs during the permitting process for a $90m, 216-unit apartment building called Alta Mile High. The project's development plans were submitted in March 2021, but the process did not end until November 2022, taking a year and eight months longer than Muller had expected. Among the issues were slow city response times and a new requirement that stormwater is conveyed through the site, which cost the firm $250,000 to $300,000. Denver is working to improve its permitting process to prevent such delays in the future.?
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