The committee killed HB 26-1334, which would have extended the Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code adoption deadline, on a 7-to-6 vote before postponing it indefinitely; SB 26-098, a noise abatement local control bill that drew hours of contentious testimony centered on Ford Amphitheater in Colorado Springs, was laid over for action at a later date with amendment negotiations ongoing.
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Representative Elizabeth Velasco, prime sponsor of the original fire code bill, argued 'this is not the first delay and this process was definitely not rushed — we have been working on this issue for at least three years,' while Representative Any Paschal countered that tools and training 'were available in month eight of their nine months' and that the board was 'under resourced,' having no trainers come on board until mid-February and the mapping tool unavailable until approximately February 15.
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“Since the bill's passing, an estimated 75,000 new home units, housing units have been permitted in Colorado. Of those, we believe nearly 25,000 housing units have been built in areas defined as moderate or high under the resiliency code that was enacted to protect them by the time we get to a year from now, there could be another 8 to 10,000 homes permitted.”
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Sign in to subscribeWelcome to the Transportation, Housing and Local Government committee. As mentioned before, we'll hear two bills today. House Bill 1334 and then Senate Bill 98. Mr. Gravy, please call the roll. Representatives Basenecker. Excused. Brooks. Excuse. Jackson. Lindsay. Excuse. No walking in. Daisy Necker. And Lindsey. Here. When happily. Here. Present. Pascal. Here. Phillips. Richardson. Here. Sukla. Here. Velasco. Weinberg. Good afternoon. Vice chair stewart. Here. Madam chair. Present. We have one of our bill sponsors. But we will wait for our other bill sponsor. We are here for 1334 modify standards of Wildfire Resiliency Code. Board Representative Pascal. Representative flinell. Thank you, Ms. Chair. And I apologize for making you guys wait on me. I had a check in on in judiciary and I actually have to leave right after this to vote on another bill. But I appreciate everybody being here today. A few years ago, this body took an important step to address wildfire risk by creating the Wildfire Resiliency Code Board and directing it to develop a statewide minimum building code that was a meaningful and necessary step to better protect Colorado communities. But as we've moved into implementation, it becomes clear that the timeline was…
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