Laramie staff propose clarifications and selective roll‑backs to residential building code after contractor outreach City staff outlined proposed code clarifications and selective changes after inviting roughly 500 contractors to submit concerns; recommendations include an optional manual dimmer mandate, clearer guidance on sprinklers vs. firewalls for small multiunit buildings, requiring smoke alarms in rooms that could become bedrooms, and a local energy‑table option to ease prescriptive R‑value requirements.

Laramie city officials are streamlining building codes to cut confusion for contractors while ensuring safety, but will it really ease the burden on local construction?

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