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Mar 01, 2021
Cities Voted For Green Building Codes. Now Developers Want To End Voting.
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A 280-unit apartment building under construction in Minneapolis in 2017. Nearly three-quarters of Minneapolis’ emissions came from buildings.
Kim Havey had a problem. Minneapolis was generating more and more of its electricity from renewables, dropping climate-warming pollution from power to record lows. But emissions from natural gas, which is used to heat buildings and stovetops, were climbing ― overtaking power plants as the city’s top source of carbon pollution in 2017.
Operator
Good afternoon, and welcome to the Beazer Homes Earnings Conference Call for the Quarter Ended December 31, 2020. Today s call is being recorded and a replay will be available on the company s website later today. In addition, PowerPoint slides intended to accompany this call are available in the Investor Relations section of the company s website at www.beazer.com.
At this point, I will turn the call over to David Goldberg, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.
David I. Goldberg
Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Thank you. Good afternoon and welcome to the Beazer Homes conference call, discussing our results for the first quarter of fiscal 2021. Before we begin, you should be aware that during this call we will be making forward-looking statements. Such statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which are described in our SEC filings, which may cause actual results to differ materially from our projections.