frank.dimambro
Registered User
I've been thinking about it a lot. The only obstruction that I see in that space is people coming in and out of the Kitchen space, getting in the way of people exiting in an emergency, but code enforcement are not thinking of scenarios that justify the rule. So putting a wall there and putting in a door to the kitchen through that wall, brings me back to the danger I've considered may justify the the rule. When I think about going through a Kitchen I see if the path is actually through the kitchen were on your left or right there's Kitchen workspace, and you would be bumping into kitchen staff on your way out, or worse the Kitchen appliance could be on fire and going thought that same space puts you into the space of the fire, but there's no clarification of the risk that rule is trying to avoid, so it's difficult to engineer a risk free solution, other than to air on the side of over-caution and make sure the means of egress is no where near the kitchen. I also worry that putting a full wall there could also trap people in the kitchen, and disrupt there access to the Egress. It would be nice if the intent of the rule was better explained.