The city of Madison’s bird-safe glass ordinance may fly in the face of the state of Wisconsin’s Uniform Commercial Building Code (Uniform Code).
With the goal of streamlining building regulations and keeping costs reasonable without affecting safety or quality, legislation supported by Democrats and Republicans established a Uniform Code in Wisconsin,1 and designates the Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services as the state agency to promulgate and adopt the Uniform Code via the administrative rules process.2
As a result, with few exceptions, local ordinances cannot establish a standard for constructing, altering, or building an addition to most commercial buildings3 unless the ordinance “strictly conforms” to the Uniform Code.4
Read the whole blogpost by John Schulze, ABC of Wisconsin Director of Legal & Government Affairs HERE