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    Allowable Building Height - Parapets?

    In the 2015 IBC on chart 504.3, does a parapet count as part of the allowable building Height? When I look at the definitions for building height it talks about "the highest roof surface", I would not consider the top of a parapet as part of "the roof surface" but I could see how it might be...
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