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AGENDA ITEM F-5 City Manager's Office STAFF REPORT City Council Meeting Date: 9/24/2019 or Staff Report Number: 19 -187 -CC MENLO PARK Consent Calendar: Introduction of Ordinance No. 1057 adopting updated building codes and local amendments to the 2019 California Energy Code to require higher levels of building electrification and solar production for newly constructed buildings to reduce greenhouse gas emissions effective January 1, 2020 Executive Summary Staff recommends that the City Council introduce Ordinance No. 1057 adopting updated building codes and local amendments to the 2019 California Energy Code as written in Attachment A that would require higher levels of building electrification and solar production for newly constructed buildings to reduce greenhouse gas emissions effective January 1, 2020, as originally presented August 27, with the following City Council directed amendments to Section 100: 1. Clothes dryers to use electricity for residential homes and low-rise multifamily buildings. 2. All new buildings to be electric -ready if allowed to use natural gas appliances through exceptions or appeal. 3. Nonresidential kitchens (such as office cafeterias and for-profit restaurants) to be all -electric with the right to appeal for gas cooking appliances. The amendments above are determined to meet the cost effectiveness requirement. If the City Council desires to make substantive amendments beyond those outlined above, it is unlikely that the codes will be implemented by January 1, 2020. For the purposes of application to the California Energy Commission (CEC,) the following report outlines the background and analysis supporting this ordinance development and does not include any new information for City Council consideration. Policy Issues Adoption of environmentally sustainable local amendments to the California Building Code (known as Reach Codes) is in the City Council 2019 workplan. Adopting local energy codes that reduce fossil fuels, such as natural gas used in buildings, aligns with the City's climate action plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and the climate and sustainability resolution (Resolution No. 6493) signed by the mayor on Earth Day that specifies working toward zero carbon (greenhouse gas free) buildings. The adoption of local building code standards or amendments requires City Council and state approval. City of Menlo Park 701 Laurel St., Menlo Park, CA 94025 tel 650-330-6600 www.menlopark.org