About Us
The coalition is focused on raising awareness of an issue and educating other professionals and the public on those issues.
Across the nation, states and cities enact safe and simple building codes that provide constituents with clarity, consistency, and process transparency. Missouri should be no different.
Safer + Simpler Missouri seeks to simplify building codes to facilitate economic development, and improve residents’ health and safety.
The Problem
Missouri relies on local county and municipal governments to adopt building codes which has resulted in 13 counties, 173 municipalities with a county and a city building code, and 179 municipalities with a city level code only. Some of these jurisdictions are using code books that are over 20 years old.
Across the state, there are over 40 separate code books in use totaling more than 17,000 pages. That’s nearly double the IRS Code’s 9,000 pages.
Across the country, only 6 states (Missouri included) do not have a state level building code.
More information and links to this foundational research may be found here: Inconsistent Regulations – U.S. Peer Comparisons to St. Louis County, March 2022; and Inconsistent Regulations – Building Codes in St. Louis County, October 2021.
BUILDING CODE BOOKS
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STATES THAT PUSH RESPONSIBILITY FOR BUILDING CODES TO LOCAL GOVERNING AUTHORITIES
Our Goals
Seeking to simplify building codes.
Our goals are to pursue and deliver consistency in codes to ensure residents and professionals have equal access to healthy and safe buildings. Through these efforts, we hope to improve economic development opportunities by modernizing the process of building and investing throughout the state of Missouri.
We will do this by engaging in good-faith conversations about these issues with stakeholders in professional sectors, associated organizations, and government officials. Join us in the pursuit of consistent regulations and a Safer + Simpler Missouri.
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Safer + Simpler Missouri seeks to simplify building codes to make doing business easier, facilitate economic development, and improve Missourians’ health and safety.
