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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes Building Code Board Of Appeals - 06/24/1999 I City of _�._ CO US Building Code Board of Appeals . Minutes of the Regular Meeting = Christi June 24, 1999 Board Members Present: Jerry Kramer Bill Braselton Brian Barnett Richard Dodson Jerry Garcia Ernesto Gonzalez Joe Fulton Board Members Absent: Richard Dodson Ernesto Gonzales Staff Members Present: Arthur N. Sosa, Building Official John Kendall, Plans Examiner III Pete Cavazos, Plans Examiner II Jay Reining, Legal Department Bernadine 0. Longoria, Secretary The meeting was called to order by Jerry Kramer at 1:40p.m. The first item of business was roll call. Richard Dodson and Ernesto Gonzalez were absent. Bill Braselton made a motion to excuse Joe Fulton for his previous absence due to business obligations. Brian Barnett seconded the motion. The next item of business was the approval and correction of the minutes for the meeting of June 24, 1999 . Bill Braselton made a motion to approve the minutes as written. Brian Barnett seconded the motion. Minutes approved as written. The next item of business was BC Appeal No. 10-99 City of Corpus Christi Airport Terminal represented by Ralph Bennett for Gensler Architects and Richard Maxwell was requesting a variance to the ti r...••„ Code ton(_) e04 ( ) nssemb!y Occupar.c� Pascenner Depots to City of Corpus viiiiJll 6Uil�alify" Section(s)w�4, Group �^/noa�i��:,�� .......,,....•..�/, _ Group (B) Business. The public hearing was opened John Kendall reviewed the description of the codes and stated that the Airport Terminal was classified as an Assembly Occupancyunder the S.B.C.C.I. which has more stringent exiting requirements than the "A" Business Occupancy. Jay Reining requested that the BC Appeal No. 10-99 should be tabled until further review of the code and the change of use for Occupancy affects not only changes all sorts of requirements throughout the building. Jerry Kramer asked for the Occupant Load referencing the Life Safety Code. John stated that the Life Safety Code would be a good reference code but did not meet the S.B.C.C.I. 1-15 code requirements. Jay Reining stated that the Life Safety Code peak load was 735. Jerry inquired about the gates -occupancy load per plane would be about 900 people per holding room. Brian Barnett inquired about S.B.C.C.I. code would rate the building throughout the whole airport. Restaurant, retail, 1 to 15 which would be normal occupancy. Joe Fulton made a motion to grant the variance with the requirements to classify the Airport as a Type II construction and sprinkled. Jerry Garcia seconded the motion. Motion passed unanimously. Arthur Sosa would like to table this variance and review with the legal department and appeal to the City Council if necessary. The next item of business was BC Appeal No. 11-99 Morgan Spear Associates requesting a variance to the City of Corpus Christi Building Code(s) 2201.2 requiring that no structural support be in right of way. Bill Braselton requested to leave the meeting and refrain from voting on this appeal. The public hearing was opened John Kendall reviewed the description of codes. A proposed skywalk between 2 buildings. Jay Reining provided Section 316.002 of the Texas Transportation Code. Municipality allows only supporting columns as decoration. Mr. Spear addressed the board and stated that the owner Mr. Chris McCain purchased American Bank Plaza and the Petroleum Building on Antelope. The proposed use of building will be leased to corporate organizations, retail and restaurants. After a discussion and Jay's review of the Texas Transportation Code and City Building Codes Jerry Garcia made a motion to approve the variance for Building Code Appeals No. BC 11-99. Joe Fulton seconded the motion. Motion passed unanimously. SCANNED P.O. Box 9277 • Corpus Christi, Texas 78469-9277 • (512) 880-3000 Building Code Board of Appeals Regular Meeting of June 24,1999 Page 2 The next item of business was the Building Official's Report. Art Sosa mention that the target date of August 1999 for the modified Administrative Chapter and the adoption of the NEC 1999 Codes. At this time Art Sosa was not prepared to discuss all the changes to the Administrative Chapter that were tabled for discussion and might delay the adoption of the code until September 1999. The next item of business was the discussion of Old and/or Pending Business. Jerry Garcia stated that he had met with Art Sosa and the Mayor and notified him of his submittal of nomination for Art Sosa, Building Official to the Commission of T.D.I. Art spoke to David Garcia, City Manager about the Commission and was supportive and suggested that he would qualify to be a member at large. The next item of business was the petitions from the audience. William Bell of J.F.K. house movers stated that in the past 2-3 weeks the City had only allowed the house movers to move houses on weekends only. He also stated that some of the homeowners did have limited time on some house moves. Pete Cavazos stated that the new requirements may be due to recent accidents and non-compliance of the house movers. David Seiler, Traffic Engineering was the authority on the weekend moves. Jerry Garcia made a motion to adjourn the meeting. Meeting adjourned at 3:00p.m. BUILDING INSPECTIONS DIVISION rthur N. Sosa "'` '°.S Building Official bc-O dl y $99.,min stnbution: • oard Members •Cit Manager -Asst Cit Mana r Devel rent Se ices Ci ectgtary-uirector using 8Uomm Dev. - 3 Jlldinq Ottie'ial -Chief gInsp 15) •Minutes notebook •Legal epa ent • ppeal file