Ithaca Energy Code News Today

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ITHACA, NY -- As Incodema moves to a new facility in Dryden later this year, developer Linc Morse has ideas about what to make of its former building at 407 Cliff St. in Ithaca. His plans look at myriad possibilities, including units for short-term and long-term rentals, office space, meeting rooms, retail space, community meeting space, conference space and retail. The name proposed is the Cliff Street Retreat. However, because of the zoning in that area, the project was in front of the Planni...

Storage rooms are given a higher permissible lighting power allowance than dorms, according to the Ithaca Energy Code Supplement. Table AA1 provides a list of 58 "lighting power allowances" for everything from atriums to banking areas to post office sorting areas. "Class I sports arenas" will by far have the best lighting, at 1.84 LPAs.  Notwithstanding that Ithaca is one of the least sunny places to live in the United States, why we need to granularly assess lighting power allowance and how...

ITHACA, NY -- The Planning and Economic Development Committee (PEDC) heard feedback from the public at their Feb. 17 meeting about the Ithaca Energy Code Supplement, or the green building

The Planning and Economic Development Committee engaged in a lengthy discussion about the Ithaca Energy Code Supplement, the new building code designed to get Ithaca to its goal of carbon