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considered adopting a city energy code.
"we talked about it four or five years ago," he says, "but it got to the point where it would have been more costly to enforce it compared to the cost of the energy it would have saved."
City Commissioner Howard Hill says that the city commission has not considered changing the city code. He says he thinks most commissioners agree that minimum energy standards should be approached by federal rather than local government.
"There could be real problems with trying to do it at the local level," he says. "It could have a detrimental effect on the cost of housing. And it would be confusing if every community adopted its own code."
Marié Francisco, former mayor of Lawrence, was on the city commission when energy efficiency reports were discussed in 1981 and 1982.
"We added the requirements to the Community Development Block Grants for insulating and weatherstripping," she says. "And we discussed the possibility of requiring a minimum amount of insulation for rental properties in the city building code."
Francisco says the city awarded
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- When you move in, arrange furniture to allow air to flow freely from ducts and vents.
- Be sure furnace and air-conditioning filters are cleaned regularly. Utility companies recommend once a month.
the grants to improve residences but did not require insulation.
"This was for housing for lower- and moderate-income families who would have trouble paying high utility bills," she says. "I encouraged carrying the requirements through to all residential buildings, but it didn't get the support of staff or a majority of the commission."
Francisco says the city requires minimum heating standards for existing buildings. But, she says,
"There's nothing to say you don't have to spend a fortune to meet the standard."
The city's Minimum Housing Code requires that the temperature in habitable rooms — living rooms, dining rooms and bedrooms, but not kitchen or bathrooms — should be able to be maintained at 70 degrees at a height of 3 feet above the floor.
Francisco says it's difficult for renters to invest in energy-saving
features because they do not own the property.
"I think it's important to address that," she says. "It should be part of the Minimum Housing Code. It's in the city's interest to have well-maintained properties that are well-insulated."
Nancy Shontz, former city commissioner, says she still thinks the plans discussed in the early 1960s have potential.
She says Eric Strauss, associate
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"I recommended setting up an energy advisory board as well as the changes in the zoning ordinances," he says.
She says an energy audit involves checking a building for energy-conserving features and usually complains about high utility bills.
Because federal energy tax credits exclude owners of rental properties, some states have adopted tax incentives for owners and even for tenants.
Strauss says he has tried to make his suggestions as comprehensive as possible.
professor of architecture and urban development, presented a proposal that was controversial at the time and would have been difficult to enforce.
"We do the energy audits by request," she says. "We get quite a few requests from residential customers in single-family dwellings.
But, she says, "Some of his ideas, such as provisions in the site plan ordinances about not impeding the sun door, would be next door, could be implemented."
dows and doors and specified a maximum acceptable level of heat loss
Carolyn Shaw, marketing representative for KPL Gas Service Co., 333 W. Ninth St., says the company also requires builders to sign a certificate based on state standards and free energy audits to all customers.
"They have to fulfil energy efficiency standards," he says. "But that's as far as we go. We don't examine an apartment ourselves. We don't employ enough people to do that, as the company is too small."
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