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Important ICC meeting today on IRC expansion to four units, 3-5 p.m. ET (teams.microsoft.com/meet/2522314...). Jeff Shapiro is presenting his proposal (admin.centerforbuilding.org/wp-content/u...), which will likely be the basis for a change. Attend if you can, speak up with comments/questions

Two structural points (which we also raised on RB1): 1. IRC assumptions are based on old house configs. FEMA-ATC is currently studying extrapolation to larger spans, etc. 2. Proposal needs to be clear that it does NOT apply to EXISTING 3-4 unit buildings, which might be highly deficient. (Also ...

This feels like it should be up to staff to at least propose fixes to (kind of like this all-consuming reconciliation of definitions), and I resent that the so underinvests in code development and leaves it up to us to police