RE: Is the Common House a Public Building? | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Rob Sandelin (floriferousmsn.com) | |
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 23:28:02 -0800 (PST) |
In the development of our permit for our commonhouse at Sharingwood we had a good conversation with the permitting folks. The primary question that determined our permit was: Will you EVER open this building up for use by people who are NOT members of your condo. Since the answer to that was of course yes, then we went down the path of figuring out what KIND of public building we were, and we ending up with sort of a custom permit, a mix between a church building and a condo association club house. The primary requirements of this were, 1 handicap bathroom, panic hardware on the doors (which we curcumvented by having no door latches at all, just push bars), battery backup exit signs on two doors, and some issue about stair tread height which caused us to rebuild a set of a dozen steps. We talked them out of commercial kitchen requirements, commercial roof drainage requirements, and a few other things. The permit people were delighted and surprised by our collaborative process with them. We setup two meetings, including the department lead inspector, talked clearly and fairly, and worked things out to the satisfaction of all. About two years later, Dale, the local inspector came out to tour the neighborhood with the new building inspector trainee guy and of course they got invited in for a cup of coffee and a chat. As Dale left, he sighed and said to the new guy, this is the kind of place we should all learn from. So if you find yourselves struggling with the powers that be, maybe you might try using the same collaborative approach you use amoung yourselves to work with them. Rob Sandelin Sharingwood --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.805 / Virus Database: 547 - Release Date: 12/3/2004
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