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Under 50 occupants second exit requirement

200 is total to any exit… 75 is choice of 2 ways to go. Your blue line might work but the red line around the counter is too long by the blue numbers…

I thought brr was saying that the 200 feet had something to do with the plan, not the exit access distance table in the code. My bad.

Yes, my numbers to the front exit by the round-about path add up to 76.32 feet -- but as I wrote, my numbers are approximate because of the way I had to back into them. brr's plan labels that path as 73 feet with is less than 75 feet, but it's not the common path. There is another path available -- the line I added in blue. Which would make the common path 5.67+4.82 = 10.49 feet.

The other line, which brr labels as BOH+FOH Common Path of Travel and pegs at 86 feet (connecting door A with door C), doesn't identify a remote point along that line. I assume the 86 feet represents the entire length of that line -- which means that the exit access travel distance from somewhere along that line will be 43 feet to either exit, and the common path from anywhere on that line will be zero.
 
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