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    Frontage Increase

    I'm working on a renovation project (2015 Michigan Building Code) of a tenant suite (Mercantile) in a strip mall. Construction type is IIB, single story. The suite is around 13,500 SF. The City said it will need to be suppressed because the maximum SF is 12,500 per table 506.2. The building is...
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    Frontage Increase and Frontage Perimeter

    We have a building where the allowable area as determined by IBC 2018 equation 5-3 would exceed the allowable area for the ground floor depending on how the value of 'F' in equation 5-5 is determined. The building would be below the allowable area if the full frontage increase were permitted...
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    Equation 5-2 (Area Increase) Per Tier?

    Is the calculated value from equation 5-2 showing TOTAL area of building (which would be divided by number of tiers to get the SF/tier), or is that the area per tier?
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