RE: RE: [C-L]_Re:common house as public building | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Lashbrook, Stephan (lashbrookci.wilsonville.or.us) | |
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 17:40:01 -0600 (MDT) |
Most communities have an Appeals Board of some sort or other that is empowered to overrule decisions of the building official. There can be some tricky politics if you are worried about your future relationship with the building official, but these things usually work out OK. At least, that has been my experience from many years of working with inspectors. Stephan -----Original Message----- From: Berrins [at] aol.com [mailto:Berrins [at] aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 11:17 AM To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org Subject: Re: RE: [C-L]_Re:common house as public building In a message dated 4/17/01 10:18:43 AM, floriferous [at] msn.com writes: << Every use that Lynn listed you can do in a condo multipurpose room, and you probably won't have to: Put in an elevator Buy an expensive grease trap Buy an expensive stove hood Have expensive panic hardware on the doors Have an expensive roof drain system installed Have special glass on any doors Being a public building often adds a great deal of unnessarily permit overhead and expense that you can avoid by just calling the building a condo multipurpose building. Most condos have such things and the banks and such are totally hip to them. The requirements for public buildings can add as much as 15% to your cost. Rob Sandelin >> All this is great, but we didn't have a choice. The city building inspector made the decision to classify us as a public building. Our architect did her best to convince him otherwise, but it didn't matter what we called it or what other towns had done; he was unmoved. If you have any strategies for upcoming groups on ways to approach building inspectors, that would be great. As I mentioned in an earlier post, being forced to build to public building standards cost us a lot more than we originally budgeted for. The lesson in our tale is to be sure you know how you will be classified before you set the budget for your Common House. Roger Berman Pathways Cohousing Northampton, MA Where the grass is up and the daffodils are in full bloom- finally! And we love our Common House. Really! _______________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list Cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org Unsubscribe info: http://www.communityforum.net/mailman/listinfo/cohousing-l _______________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list Cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org Unsubscribe info: http://www.communityforum.net/mailman/listinfo/cohousing-l
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Re: RE: [C-L]_Re:common house as public building Berrins, April 18 2001
- RE: RE: [C-L]_Re:common house as public building Rob Sandelin, April 19 2001
- RE: RE: [C-L]_Re:common house as public building Lashbrook, Stephan, April 18 2001
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