Unlimited area building

[Sifu]

I though I left a Fried-day post about this but apparently I was too fried.

Given a supermarket, type IIB, Sprinklered, single story, meets the criteria for an unlimited area building. Someone adds a shopping center, VB, sprinklered, single story. building. Unless a 2-hr fire wall was constructed between the two buildings, I effectively now have one type VB building, that could still be considered an unlimited area building as long as the open space is met and the occupancies are limited to B,F,M, or S. Correct? Therefore, no mixed use strategy beyond the unlimited area building criteria would apply?

 

[Tim Mailloux]

I though I left a Fried-day post about this but apparently I was too fried.

Given a supermarket, type IIB, Sprinklered, single story, meets the criteria for an unlimited area building. Someone adds a shopping center, VB, sprinklered, single story. building. Unless a 2-hr fire wall was constructed between the two buildings, I effectively now have one type VB building, that could still be considered an unlimited area building as long as the open space is met and the occupancies are limited to B,F,M, or S. Correct? Therefore, no mixed use strategy beyond the unlimited area building criteria would apply?

Theoretically I would say it could be one large unlimited area building.

Having done work for supermarkets in the past, they typically own their buildings even in strip malls. Would the supermarket be the owner of the strip mall addition or is that another entity? I would think an unlimited area building would need to be one building / one owner.

 

[Sifu]

It doesn't look like they are the same owner. I can find very few records of anything, best I could find was a on a county property records search. I wouldn't think it is a code issue but I never considered that. The open space is the open space, and maintaining the building systems would be regulated by annuals, so I'm not sure how it could be a required.

 

[steveray]

Just watch out for accessory A stuff like the little pizza shop in the grocery or other spaces...