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Mr. Walker then asked the Board's opinion of him taking.a delegation to the outlying areas of the County to explain the proposed code to them. The Board felt this permissible., while the municipalities would not be covered, they could accept the county code. -- -•• Mr. Walker asked if the Board did or if they wanted to accept the proposal presented by the Building Trades Council of IRC submitted at the November 9' meeting as this will give a basis to work to. On Motion _a by Commissioner Macdonald, seconded by Commissioner McCullers and unanimously carried, the Board accepted the proposal presented by the Building Trades Council, as follows: Honorable Robert Graves,Chairman Members of the Board of Coµnty• Commissioners of Indian River. County Courthouse Vero Beach, Florida Gentlemen: October 11._ 1966 For the past few weeks the subject of a county building code has been before the citizens of. Indian River County through the press and other communications media. As you know proposals dealing with a county wide building code are not new in Indian River County, however, the needs are more critical now than they ever have been in the past. The construction trades of Indian River County have been inter- ested, for may years, in such a building code being adopted for the en- tire county. At the present time, the City of Vero Beach and the City of Sebastian have building codes in effect and have building departments with the various inspectors as required, therefore the scope of this let- ter will except those two communities, and will deal solely with the re- maining portion of the county which has no official building code or super- vision or guidance whatsoever from the county government. At the outset, we would like it clearly understood that the general , contractors and architects of Indian River County do an excellent job of constructing various buildings throughout the county in conformity with good building practices and in adhering to one or more of the better standard building codes, whether it be the Southern Standard Building Code, or the South Florida Building Code, both of which are very good. However, it is our opinion that the South Florida Building Code is the better of the two in- asmuch as this code is designed for a specific small area in which the climate, temperature, wind velocity, rainfall and other variables are quite similar. It is not to be inferred that the Southern Standard Building Code is inadequate, but it covers a large geographical area which contains many extremes insofar as variable climatic conditions, having a direct bearing on the sound construction of buildings, both commercial and residential. The Building Trades Council of Indian River County would respect- fully offer its services, facilities and the thousands of years of cumulative knowledge of its combined members to thecitizens and government of this county in an effort to resolve,once and for all, at ,least a minimum building code for the county. We do not pretend to be the last word insofar as every phase of a good building code is concerned, but from our past experience in all phases of building and construction, we have had occasion to be the per- P:O 1966 gea 10 PAGE 53