Hull council adopts buildings-and-construction ordinance, hires building inspection officer and approves land survey to allow two homes

Hull’s mayor and council on Aug. 28 adopted an ordinance regulating buildings and construction and took steps to strengthen local building oversight, hiring a city building inspector and approving a property replat that will allow two homes to be built without a variance.

Attorney Danny Love presented an ordinance titled covering "Buildings and Building Regulations and Construction Codes," and the council voted unanimously first to waive the reading of the entire ordinance and then to adopt it. The transcript notes that a second reading and another vote will occur at the September meeting.

The ordinance and related discussion were paired with the council’s unanimous vote to hire Lynn Shedd as the City’s Building Inspection Officer. Shedd earlier provided information about assisting the city with code enforcement and building inspections; council members moved and seconded the hire and approved it without recorded opposition.

The council also discussed a zoning request from property owner Adam Swann to build two single-family dwellings on Glenn Carrie Road. Attorney Love and Mayor John Barber said that, as originally surveyed, the lot would have required a variance for subdivision. After Swann obtained a new survey dividing the parcel into two roughly 1.5-acre tracts, Love and Barber said the proposal appeared to comply with zoning. The council unanimously approved the new plat, eliminating the need for a variance under the newly presented survey.

The actions leave Hull with a newly adopted building-code ordinance (pending the scheduled second reading), a hired building inspector on staff, and an approved survey that clears the way for two homes on the Glenn Carrie Road parcel. The council said the ordinance will be revisited at the September meeting for the second reading and another vote.