Don, you have obviously never dealt with LIFE safety fire codes. These codes are very critical for evacuating people from a burning building, and SAVING LIVES. Until someone keels over and dies waiting in line to pee, the two issues are completely unrelated from a safety issue. I’m not...
I have an existing building that was modified into a restaurant (Virginia). By Fire Code requirements (Means of Egress, etc.) the calculated Fire Code occupancy is 258. However, the restaurant only has three toilets, so the building inspector only granted a CO for 120 (40 x 3). He used 40...