A legislative review panel has turned down a proposed state building-code change that would have mandated newer townhomes be equipped with expensive but potentially life-saving automatic sprinklers.
In the wake of the Legislative Regulatory Review Committee's late May decision blocking the code change, one Hartford area townhome developer who had delayed his project due to uncertainty over the state Codes and Standards Committee's sprinkler proposal says his planned 70-unit Suffield townhome community is back on track. The review committee, in a May 21 letter to the Codes and Standards panel, cited, among other concerns, the lack of statutory authority to make the change.