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ATTACHMENT A ORDINANCE NO. 1057 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MENLO PARK AMENDING CHAPTER 12.04 [ADOPTION OF CODES] AND CHAPTER 12.16 [ENERGY CODE] OF TITLE 12 [BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION] OF THE MENLO PARK MUNICIPAL CODE TO ADOPT A LOCAL "REACH" CODE WHEREAS, the City of Menlo Park ("City") wishes to adopt a building code in accordance with law and to use the most updated regulations in the processing of development in the City; WHEREAS, California Health and Safety Code section 17958 requires that cities adopt building regulations that are substantially the same as those adopted by the California Building Standards Commission and contained in the California Building Standards; WHEREAS, the California Energy Code is a part of the California Building Standards which implements minimum energy efficiency standards in buildings through mandatory requirements, prescriptive standards, and performances standards; WHEREAS, California Health and Safety Code Sections 17958.5, 17958.7 and 18941.5 provide that the City may make changes or modifications to the building standards contained in the California Building Standards based upon express findings that such changes or modifications are reasonably necessary because of local climatic, geological or topographical conditions; WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Menlo Park finds that each of the amendments, additions and deletions to the California Energy Code contained in this ordinance are reasonably necessary because of local climatic, geological or topographical conditions described in Section 1; WHEREAS, Public Resources Code Section 25402.1(h)2 and Section 10-106. of the Building Energy Efficiency Standards (Standards) establish a process which allows local adoption of energy standards that are more stringent than the statewide Standards, provided that such local standards are cost effective and the California Energy Commission finds that the standards will require buildings to be designed to consume no more energy than permitted by the California Energy Code; WHEREAS, the California Codes and Standards Reach Code Program, has determined specific modifications to the 2019 State Energy Code for each climate zone that are cost effective; WHEREAS, that such modifications will result in designs that consume less energy than they would under the 2019 State Energy Code; WHEREAS, the City of Menlo Park, through TRC Advanced Energy, has performed an additional cost effectiveness analyses as required by the California Energy Commission for the local amendments to the California Energy Code contained in this ordinance which memo is hereby incorporated by reference; WHEREAS, based upon these analyses, the City Council of the City of Menlo Park finds that the local amendments to the California Energy Code contained in this ordinance are cost