Plymouth, Duxbury, look to stretch building code

New regulations promote energy efficiency

There might be a bit of a stretch in at least two local Town Meetings this spring.

Both Plymouth and Duxbury will have on their ballot warrant articles calling upon the town to adopt what has been dubbed the “stretch code,” a set of optional building codes which require new construction and renovations to be up to 20 percent more efficient.

Members of energy committees in both towns are pushing for adoption of the legislation. “It promotes better energy efficiency in town,” Duxbury Alternative Energy Committee chairman Jim Goldenberg told the Duxbury Clipper. “Most builders build to it anyway.”

Duxbury selectmen voted 2-1 to support putting the code change on the warrant. Chairman Shawn Dahlen favored it, though, as a builder, he noted it could add $1,500 to the cost of a 1,600 square foot house.

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