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    How do you treat requests to add a bedroom onto a side of a dwelling unit but separated from the dwelling unit by a garage?

    To further explain, the bedroom would not have direct access to the dwelling unit without going outside and around the garage. The garage is a different occupancy classification than the residence and obviously has a fire wall. This would mean the bedroom would be outside the residential...
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    How to determine building height of storage garage considered as a separate building

    This is from Ontario Building Code (NBC is similar): 3.2.1.2. Storage Garage Considered as a Separate Building (1) A basement used primarily as a storage garage is permitted to be considered as a separate building for the purposes of Subsection 3.2.2. and Sentences 3.2.5.13.(2) and (3)...
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    • building classification building height first storey separate building
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    • Forum: Canada
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