Petting Zoo

[gbhammer]

How would you classify the Use Group of a “Petting Zoo” where there are barns that have hundreds of people walking through them looking at animals?:?: Going with a miscellaneous Group U can't be right, and telling people that they aren't an agricultural building and exempt from things like bathrooms, drinking fountains, ADA accessibility, the list goes on…:banghd It’s like putting the political gun to your head:sad:. The gun has been there before and I’m sure will be there again, but I would prefer to not pick the thing up at all if I can help it.

 

[Examiner]

Assembly A-3 the space is for recreation & amusement and possibility exhibition.

 

[cda]

are you asking a general question or looking at something now

if now how many sq ft and are they doing anything besides petting the animals??

B if less than 50??

assign occupant load based on actual use, do not have the code section

 

[gbhammer]

It is an exercise in precognition. A several mile long Christmas light display drive through, with a future gift shop, a barn for reindeer, Santa Workshop, elves village… you name it they seem to want it. Just trying to anticipate the problems before I become the Grinch that destroyed Christmas.

So I have no sizes just an engineered site plan, flood development permit, and a hand drawn with color pencils site showing the things I listed above (this came in first about a year and a half ago).

If they have a village with all the goodies like the reindeer barn in one area then would it be ok to have bathrooms in their own building and not in each structure. Like an amusement park.

 

[steveray]

There are max. travel distances to restrooms I believe when you are sharing them on a site....i WAS THINKING 2902.5........thats for employees.....I guess paying customers can walk or wheel as far as they want them to.....

 

[Examiner]

Okay now it sounds like an amusement park with vendor sales. Still Assembly even if the animals are in the barn. Outdoor area would be Assembly also. Buildings for Vendors will be Mercantile. Dive/road is not classified; however, the buildings will be. Probably no different than a drive through zoo but once you get out and enter a building the Building Code applies and the occupancy use is recreation/amusement. People are there to amuse themselves or to provide entertainment for themselves.

 

[Alias]

How would you classify the Use Group of a “Petting Zoo” where there are barns that have hundreds of people walking through them looking at animals?:?: Going with a miscellaneous Group U can't be right, and telling people that they aren't an agricultural building and exempt from things like bathrooms, drinking fountains, ADA accessibility, the list goes on…:banghd It’s like putting the political gun to your head:sad:. The gun has been there before and I’m sure will be there again, but I would prefer to not pick the thing up at all if I can help it.

I would say A-3 Assembly and I would add the possibility of A-5. Ag building (U) anywhere the public has no access to the animals or for storage areas.

Think county fairgrounds or livestock exhibition grounds. We have a handicapped ramp to the wash racks at our Junior Livestock Grounds where 4-H and FFA kids show and sell their animals every year. See my posting of the ramp here:

http://www.inspectpa.com/forum/showthread.php?3266-It-s-a-horse-of-course&highlight=livestock+grounds

And yes, ADA compliant.

 

[mark handler]

B if less than 50

I agree .