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City of AMES, Iowa
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(515) 232-6210
JOHN R. KLAUS
City Attorney
SANDRA M. ZENK
JUN 2 T flap
CRAIG V. SCHRADER
Assistant City Attorneys
June 27 , 1980
Honorable F. Paul Goodland, Mayor
And Members of the City Council
Of The City of Ames , Iowa
In Re : New State Legislation Effecting City Housing Code
Dear Mayor Goodland and Council Members :
On May 26 Governor Ray signed H. F. 2536 which becomes effec-
tive July 1. Of all the laws passed in the last session
affecting cities , this is the one most likely to have imme-
diate impact on the activities of the City Council . For
this reason I am enclosing a copy herewith for your informa-
tion.
You will see that what it does is repeal the State Housing
Law, Chapter 413 of the Code of Iowa and further require that
all cities with a population of 15 , 000 or more must , before
January 1, 1981, adopt one of five nationally promulgated
housing codes or in the alternative , if the city does nothing,
become subject to the Uniform Housing Code promulgated by
the International Conference of Building Officials .
What this means , of course , is that sometime within the next
six months the City Council will need to decide whether to
adopt one of these codes or to simply become subject to the
code promulgated by the International Conference of Building
Officials . Additionally, and perhaps more significantly is
the fact that the city is also required to adopt enforcement
procedures which shall include a program for regular rental_
inspections , rental inspections upon receipt of complaints and
certification of inspected rental housing; and,may additionally
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develop provisions with respect to all or any of the items
under new sections 3 (a) through (h) of the Act.
Finally, the legislation provides that the city may adopt
housing code provisions which are more stringent than those
in the model housing code it adopts or to which it becomes
subject under the new law.
This legislation obviously has the effect of completely re-
opening the whole matter of housing code for the City of Ames .
Some of you may recall the amount of time and controversy
which that entailed some years ago. I have discussed this
with Pat Switz of the Community Development Department who
has already directed his staff to begin obtaining and re-
viewing and five national codes involved. I am also informed
that they have plans to attend some seminars that will be
conducted by the Office of Planning and Programming in this
area. It is not, in my opinion, too soon for the City Council
to devise and set in motion some machinery to the orderly
development of city policy in this area in response to the
new law so that we have things settled well in advance of the
January 1 date.
Additionally, it has been brought to my attention that in re-
codifying and revising the city code, the heating standard
in the housing code which was at 65 degrees was reduced to
60 degrees . This is an error that occurred without my intent .
I have received complaints that this is a hardship temperature
for most people and the fear that at least some landlords
will seize upon this as an opportunity to curtail the heat
available to their units . To allay these fears it is my sug-
gestion that the City Council direct me to prepare immediately,
an ordinance which will correct this by re-establishing the
heating standard at 65 degrees .
Respectfully submitted,
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John R. Klau
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City Attorney
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