Mr. Inspector
SAWHORSE
Never did a plan review for a live/work unit before. Hoping someone can help me. Have a plan where a beauty salon will be put in an one story old twin house. It looks over 80 years old at least.
419.1 says its a dwelling or sleeping unit......that is operated by the tenant. I don't see anything wrong with it being in a twin house that has 2 dwelling units.
419.2 changes the unit to R-2 from R-3. Or does it change the whole building to R-2 (both sides of the twin house)?
419.5 sends you directly to 903.2.8, sprinklers..this says R-2 needs sprinklers for the work/live unit. What about the other unit
of the twin?
419.6 floor loading. Again for just the one unit or both? Or is just for the area that will be the salon?
419.7 accessibility shall be designed in accordance with chapter 11. Notice it sends you directly to chapter 11 so you can't use accessibility requirements in existing buildings chapter 34. Does this mean everything in the live/work unit including things that are not being changed, like switches and windows?
1107.6.2.2group R-2 other than apartment houses, monasteries and convents has 1107.6.2.2.1 Accessible units which sends you to table 1107.6.1.1. This table says you must have an accessible unit. Does this mean the living area of the live/work area now must be changed to an accessible dwelling?
This does not seem right to me to do all of these changes especially making the living area fully accessible when no changes are being done to the living area. There will need to be a lot of work to do this, moving walls to make bathroom bigger, etc. Am I missing an exception somewhere?
There are two existing entrances into the area that will be the salon. They want to make one accessible which is ok in chapter 34 but you need to go directly to chapter 11 which requires 60% of entrances need to be accessible?
419.1 says its a dwelling or sleeping unit......that is operated by the tenant. I don't see anything wrong with it being in a twin house that has 2 dwelling units.
419.2 changes the unit to R-2 from R-3. Or does it change the whole building to R-2 (both sides of the twin house)?
419.5 sends you directly to 903.2.8, sprinklers..this says R-2 needs sprinklers for the work/live unit. What about the other unit
of the twin?
419.6 floor loading. Again for just the one unit or both? Or is just for the area that will be the salon?
419.7 accessibility shall be designed in accordance with chapter 11. Notice it sends you directly to chapter 11 so you can't use accessibility requirements in existing buildings chapter 34. Does this mean everything in the live/work unit including things that are not being changed, like switches and windows?
1107.6.2.2group R-2 other than apartment houses, monasteries and convents has 1107.6.2.2.1 Accessible units which sends you to table 1107.6.1.1. This table says you must have an accessible unit. Does this mean the living area of the live/work area now must be changed to an accessible dwelling?
This does not seem right to me to do all of these changes especially making the living area fully accessible when no changes are being done to the living area. There will need to be a lot of work to do this, moving walls to make bathroom bigger, etc. Am I missing an exception somewhere?
There are two existing entrances into the area that will be the salon. They want to make one accessible which is ok in chapter 34 but you need to go directly to chapter 11 which requires 60% of entrances need to be accessible?