Existing nonconforming buildings

[retire09]

I have a situation where three existing buildings on three separate lots are all built with no fire separation and non rated walls with openings (2 lots in front and 1 in back). All are built to the property line or within 6' of the adjacent buildings.

One building has been vacant for many years and a non profit organization wants to purchase the building and open a planned parent clinic.

Can I allow a change in occupancy for a building with this kind of existing condition?

What should I do with existing nonconforming conditions like this?

Are these all grandfathered as existing prior to the adoption of the code?

WE have adopted the 2006 IBC and IEBC.

 

[Yankee]

Change of Occ would mean meeting the IEBC

 

[fatboy]

Yank's got it.

 

[TJacobs]

Sometimes you just can't fix stupid, but you can document the hell out of it.

 

[FredK]

Change of Occ would mean meeting the IEBC

I would agree if I knew what the previous use was. Some times it's the same.

 

[Yankee]

I would agree if I knew what the previous use was. Some times it's the same.

sorry, I stand corrected, a change of Use would need to meet, not a change of occ

 

[jim baird]

Depending on your local admin procedure (ours are mandated by state to be adopted locally), use is often not considered continuing if the building is vacant for a certain period. There is the Chapter 34 path to follow also. Sometimes you have to make chicken salad from chicken droppings.

 

[FredK]

Wish that was the case here Jim. Then when there's two guys here that been here since day one, it's fun to listen in as to who owned which property when. (Small town still.)

 

[Quimby]

Wish that was the case here Jim. Then when there's two guys here that been here since day one, it's fun to listen in as to who owned which property when. (Small town still.)

Thanks for the suggestion and wish dude,.