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Memorandum
To: Jessica Garrow, Community Development Director
From: Stephen Kanipe
Date: January 29, 2019
Re: CREMP payment waiver for snow melt systems at Galena Plaza project
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This memorandum will formally amend the document of record dated July 31, 2015
regarding snowmelt systems and CREMP payment options at the Galena Plaza project
(attached). Aspen Municipal Code section 8.46.020, adoption of the 2015 Edition of the
International Energy Conservation Code contains Appendix CA specific to the
Commercial Renewable Energy Mitigation Program (CREMP). Section 101 contains
exceptions for “areas critical for access and emergency egress as approved by the
building official including item B; Accessible routes as defined by IBC sections 1104.1 and
1104.2 to be limited to 48 inches in width. The 48 inch width is exempted and referenced in
the letter of July 31, 2015.
The connecting pedestrian routes in the Rio Grande Plaza serve the Library, the Pitkin
County Jail, the Courthouse, the Rio Grande office building, Tasters and currently, the
Rio Grande parking structure. The new city civic building will become part of this
integral public interface.
The snow melt is installed, inspected and approved but not energized. The current
agreement requires the mitigation payment be received before the system operates as
designed. The building official has authority to waive CREMP payments in areas critical
to public safety. Given the public facing nature of these areas, the CREMP payments
outlined in the final bullet point of the July 31, 2015 agreement is hereby deleted and no
payment will be due when the systems are energized. This decision is consistent with
the waiver granted the Rubey Park Transit Center.
Cc: Sara Ott, Acting City Manager
Jodi Smith, Pitkin County Facilities Director
Permit files
06/17/2019