By Terrance Thorton | Paradise Valley Independent
Anticipated safety provisions to the Paradise Valley Hillside Code updates appear to appease both safety concerns and marketplace trends, a member of the local building community says.
A collective of elected leaders, municipal engineering staff and local building experts agree anticipated changes to Hillside construction guidelines will enhance both safety standards and notification requirements as building projects commence.
“They did reach out to me and a few other builders and I got very involved,” said Rod Cullum of Cullum Homes, a respected luxury homebuilder and Town of Paradise Valley resident. “It started out with a pretty broad scope of which a list from the council that wasn’t grounded in best building practices. But we worked with them to accomplish addressing the real concerns vs. maybe the perceived concerns.”
