No. SB 1218
Filed under Development & Land Use.
Building Requirements of Certain Structures; Requiring the Florida Building Commission to require that the entire building envelope of certain structures meet the impact resistance requirements of the Florida Building Code and be constructed with wind-resistant materials designed and built to withstand a specified wind speed, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDStarting with the next Florida Building Code edition, new multistory apartments and hotels with sleeping units must have entire building envelopes -- walls, roof, doors, skylights, glazing -- built to resist impact and withstand 160 mph winds.
The same standard reaches any new home built within five miles of the coast anywhere in Florida, not just the traditional high-velocity hurricane zone, plus any new home built inside that zone.
Hurricane shelters must meet the standard too, and so must any of these buildings when rebuilt after being made uninhabitable or destroyed by wind, flood, hurricane, tropical storm, or fire.
AIBeginning with the 9th edition of the Florida Building Code, the Building Commission must require the covered structures' entire building envelope to be constructed with wind-resistant materials built to withstand 160 mph winds.
AIThe standard applies to new residences built within five miles of the coastal mean high-water line statewide, extending hurricane-grade construction well beyond the high-velocity hurricane zone that has historically carried the strictest rules.
AIThe same covered structures must also meet the Florida Building Code's impact resistance requirements, covering exterior walls, roof, outside doors, skylights, glazing, and glass block -- a separate standard from the wind-speed rating.
AIR-1 and R-2 occupancies -- multistory hotels, motels, apartment buildings, and similar residential buildings with sleeping units -- must meet the same impact- and wind-resistance standard as the coastal and hurricane-zone categories.
AIA building that would otherwise fall into one of the covered categories, and that is being rebuilt after being deemed uninhabitable or destroyed by wind, flood, hurricane, tropical storm, or fire, must also meet the standard.