I'm curious on how jurisdictions are applying Section 419 of the IBC to existing homes that want to open a home occupation.
I am curious about the following...
1. How are you defining office space? Are you including all B occupancies or stuff that is trully an office? Do you have a definition for office?
2. How are you enforcing this? To its full extent? For example, lets say you have someone who decides to cut hair in their home. They decide to use the spare bedroom for this, which is 12.37% of the total square footage of the house. Are you requiring them to reclassify their house as an R-2 structure and sprinkler the building? And what about setbacks? Are you requiring them to fire-rate walls that are less than 10 feet from the property line?
3. Have any of you created a separte policy for 'home occupations' as opposed to 'live/work units'?
4. Does anyone know if this will stay in the code for 2012? It seems to limit what people can do as home occupations quite a bit.
Thanks in advance for your help!
I am curious about the following...
1. How are you defining office space? Are you including all B occupancies or stuff that is trully an office? Do you have a definition for office?
2. How are you enforcing this? To its full extent? For example, lets say you have someone who decides to cut hair in their home. They decide to use the spare bedroom for this, which is 12.37% of the total square footage of the house. Are you requiring them to reclassify their house as an R-2 structure and sprinkler the building? And what about setbacks? Are you requiring them to fire-rate walls that are less than 10 feet from the property line?
3. Have any of you created a separte policy for 'home occupations' as opposed to 'live/work units'?
4. Does anyone know if this will stay in the code for 2012? It seems to limit what people can do as home occupations quite a bit.
Thanks in advance for your help!