oy.
Code Committee gets back to work in a few weeks, and 'reconfigured space' is item one on the agenda.
the key question is still - why have thresholds to FP upgrades (based on % of work area) if the code is written (or applied) in a way that those thresholds never get met?
RLGA's warehouse example is an extreme, but valid, example.
the front line in the argument has been, and still is, 3-family triple decker apartment buildings being converted to condos with extensive alterations, and reconfiguration of partition walls.