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Approved Minutes

BUILDING AND STANDARDS COMMISSION MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, April 23, 2025 BUILDING AND STANDARDS COMMISSION REGULAR MEETING MINUTES WEDNESDAY, April 23, 2025 The BUILDING AND STANDARDS COMMISSION convened in a REGULAR meeting on 23 April 2025, at the CITY OF AUSTIN PERMITTING AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER (PDC), 6310 WILHELMINA DELCO DRIVE, ROOM 1405, in Austin, Texas. VICE CHAIR BLAINE CAMPBELL called COMMISSION (BSC) Meeting to order at 6:41 p.m. the BUILDING AND STANDARDS Commissioners in Attendance: Vice Chair Blaine Campbell, Commissioners: Michael Francis, Kurt Lockhart, Jeffrey S. Musgrove and Commissioners in Attendance Remotely: Chair Timothy Stostad, Commissioner Raisch Tomlanovich, Ex Officio Commissioner Chief Stephen Truesdell. PUBLIC COMMUNICATION: GENERAL No citizens signed up to speak during Public Communication. APPROVAL OF MINUTES 1. Approve the minutes of the BUILDING AND STANDARDS COMMISSION REGULAR MEETING on February 26, 2025. The minutes from the meeting of February 26, 2025 were approved - with the change that “Vice Francis” should say “Commissioner Francis”- on COMMISSIONER LOCKHART’s motion, COMMISSIONER FRANCIS’ second, with no objections. PUBLIC HEARINGS 2. Conduct a public hearing and consider case number CL 2025-036193; Property address: 1211 E 52nd Street. VICE CHAIR CAMPBELL moved to close the public hearing, COMMISSIONER LOCKHART’s second, with no objections. VICE CHAIR CAMPBELL moved to adopt the findings of fact, conclusions of law and modify City staff recommendation by changing 1 BUILDING AND STANDARDS COMMISSION MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, April 23, 2025 the order from repair of the residential structure within 45 days to demolition within 45 days, and on the 46th day, if compliance is not achieved, authorize the Code Official is to proceed with demolition, COMMISSIONER MUSGROVE’s second. The motion carried on a 6- 0 vote. COMMISSIONER OSTA LUGO and COMMISSIONER SOKOL were absent. 3. Conduct a public hearing and consider case numbers CL 2025-002177; Property address: 2423 Town Lake Circle, Apt. 213, also known as Mesh Apartments. VICE CHAIR CAMPBELL moved to close the public hearing, COMMISSIONER LOCKHART’s second, with no objections. COMMISSIONER FRANCIS moved to adopt the findings of fact, conclusions of law and adopt City staff’s recommendation for repair of the unit of the commercial structure within 45 days, with a civil penalty of $1000 per week beginning on the 46th day from the date the order is mailed and continuing until compliance is achieved, COMMISSIONER LOCKHART’S second. The motion carried on a 6-0 vote. COMMISSIONER OSTA LUGO and COMMISSIONER SOKOL were absent. 4. Conduct a public hearing and consider case number CL 2024-158389; Property address: 3117 Garwood Street, also known as 3119 Garwood Street. CHAIR STOSTAD moved to close the public hearing, COMMISSIONER FRANCIS’s second, with no objections. COMMISSIONER FRANCIS moved to adopt the findings of fact and conclusions of law and adopt City Staff’s recommendation for repair of the residential duplex structure, with the modification of the compliance timeframe from 45 to 90 days. If compliance is not achieved, on the 91st day, a civil penalty of $250 per week will accrue until the repairs required by the Order are complete. COMMISSIONER LOCKHART’s second. The motion carried on a 6-0 vote. COMMISSIONER OSTA LUGO and COMMISSIONER SOKOL were absent. 5. Conduct a public hearing and consider case number CL 2025-014703; Property address: 506 Clover Court. COMMISSIONER LOCKHART moved to close the public hearing, COMMISSIONER MUSGROVES’s second, with no objections. VICE CHAIR CAMPBELL moved to adopt the findings of fact, conclusions of law and modify City staff recommendation by changing the order from repair of the residential structure within 45 days to demolition within 45 days, and on the 46th day, if compliance is not achieved, authorize the Code Official is to proceed with demolition, COMMISSIONER LOCKHART’s second. The motion carried on a 6-0 vote. COMMISSIONER OSTA LUGO and COMMISSIONER SOKOL were absent. 6. Conduct a public hearing and consider case number CL 2025-014720; Property address: 6911 Bennett Avenue. COMMISSIONER FRANCIS moved to close the public hearing, COMMISSIONER MUSGROVE’s second, with no objections. COMMISSIONER FRANCIS moved to adopt the findings of fact and conclusions of law and adopt City Staff’s recommendation for 2 BUILDING AND STANDARDS COMMISSION MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, April 23, 2025 repair of the residential duplex structure, with the modification of the compliance timeframe from 45 to 90 days. If compliance is not achieved, on the 91st day, a civil penalty of $250 per week will accrue until the Order are complete. COMMISSIONER LOCKHART’s second. The motion carried on a 6-0 vote. COMMISSIONER OSTA LUGO and COMMISSIONER SOKOL were absent. the repairs required by 7. Conduct a public hearing and consider case number CL 2018-097104; Property address: 7708 Manassas Drive. COMMISSIONER FRANCIS moved to close the public hearing, COMMISSIONER LOCKHART’s second, with no objections. COMMISSIONER FRANCIS moved to adopt the findings of fact and conclusions of law and adopt City Staff’s recommendation to issue a new order that would supersede the prior order for repair (TRV 2018115095) and would require: 1) that the accrued penalty of $ $86,035.71 from the prior order remain in place, and interest would no longer continue to accrue; 2) demolition within 45 days, and if not in compliance on the 46th day, authorize the Code Official to proceed with demolition, COMMISSIONER MUSGROVE’s second. The motion carried on a 6-0 vote. COMMISSIONER OSTA LUGO and COMMISSIONER SOKOL were absent. 8. Conduct a public hearing and consider an appeal regarding case number CV 2020-117536; Property address: 1500 E 12th Street. COMMISSIONER LOCKHART moved the public hearing, CHAIR STOSTAD’s second, with no objections. COMMISSIONER STOSTAD moved to adopt the findings of fact, conclusions of law and adopt City Staff’s recommendation to affirm the notice of violation thereby denying the appeal, COMMISSIONER LOCKHART’s second. The motion passed on a 6-0 vote. COMMISSIONER OSTA LUGO and COMMISSIONER SOKOL were absent. to close DISCUSSION AND ACTION ITEM 9. Elect officers for the Building and Standards Commission. At this meeting the Commission is required to elect a Chair and Vice Chair who will serve a one-year term beginning May 1, 2025 and running through April 30, 2026. COMMISSIONER FRANCIS nominated CHAIR STOSTAD for the position of Chair. COMMISSIONER STOSTAD accepted the nomination. There was no objection to the nomination. CHAIR STOSTAD nominated VICE CHAIR CAMPBELL for the position of Vice Chair. VICE CHAIR CAMPBELL accepted the nomination. There was no objection to the nomination. FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS 3 BUILDING AND STANDARDS COMMISSION MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, April 23, 2025 A penalty relief hearing for 2503 Oltorf Street, also known as Trio Apartments, was requested by two commissioners to be placed on the next agenda. VICE CHAIR CAMPBELL adjourned the meeting at 9:55 p.m. without objection. The minutes were approved at the June 25, 2026 regular meeting on COMMISSIONER MUSGROVE’s motion, COMMISSIONER LOCKHART’s second on a 7-0 vote. CHAIR STOSTAD was off dais. 4