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The first time I read this, I began trying to figure out whether @pipedreaming.bsky.social got to spend an entire presentation venting about single-stair apartments, or whether the venting rules for single-stair buildings are excessive…😁 Best typo of the day!

Which committee is this? I thought this was a meeting of CACs (not the committees that vote at the code hearings), right? The voting coms DO largely keep up, tho they divide the work among "leads." The CACs have become vehicles for faux consensus, and I think this is how and why.

Yeah it was PMGCAC. That said, it’s going to be a similar story on the plumbing code development committee, no? Volunteers who are presented with hundreds of proposals, spending days in person hearing testimony and who knows how long reviewing the written reason statements ahead of time. The…

…committee members’ time will be “funded” either by a private entity with a vested interest, a government entity whose primary mission is not developing code, or out of their own pocket.

…about this a lot, that the code development process is just not well resourced enough to handle any big shifts in code. He was a plumbing code official in a town of not more than 20,000 people in a rural state, whose involvement is essentially subsidized by those taxpayers. Of all of the committee…

…members, I think he took his responsibilities most seriously (he asked a bunch of questions, followed up with requests for more information). It doesn’t seem right that evaluating such a paradigm shift in plumbing design is being evaluated by a random assortment of volunteers like this.

To say nothing of all of the volunteering that @pipedreaming.bsky.social did to research and develop this code proposal (which has been many years in the making) before I hired him. There are huge cost savings across society here – society as a whole would benefit from investing in finding more.