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Water urinal with no flushometer?

Yikes

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I have an ADA retrofit project that requires a new single accommodation restroom in lieu of trying to make existing multi-user restrooms accessible. In the name of "equivalent facilitation", we need this restroom to have a urinal as well as a WC and sink.
The problem is, most urinals have a flushometer valve - 40 fixture units - and the AHJ is requiring full forensic riser diagrams for the entire building if we add more than 20 FU.

Therefore I'm look for an alternate to a flushometer urinal. I know I can do a waterless urinal, but for sanitation reasons, the owner prefers a water urinal.

Does anyone know of a modern water urinal that has some type of tank?
 
Some jurisdictions require the rough plumbing to be installed for a conventional urinal along with the water-less urinal. The idea is that the stink will bother them enough to want a real urinal.
 
I've seen tanks for water closets that go in walls. I don't know whether they also make one for a urinal.

40 FU sounds extremely high for a fixture that only uses a gallon or less per flush. Maybe that's a California thing. The IPC says a 3/4" flushometer for a urinal is only 5 FU.
 
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