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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOccupancy Correspondence 1996-12-18 .- .. ~. " DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DEPARTMENT 225 FIFTH STREET SPRINGFIELD. OR 97477 (541) 726-3753 FAX (541) 726-3669 December 18, 1996 Tim and Nanice Beckett 261 Deadmond Ferry Road Springfield, Oregon 97477 RE: Housing Inspection at 261 Deadmond Ferry Road, Springfield, Oregon Dear Mr. and Mrs. Beckett: At your request, the Community Services Division/Building Safety conducted a Housing Inspection at the above location. The purpose of the Housing Code is to provide minimum requirements for the protection of life, limb, health, property, safety, and welfare of the general public and the owners and occupants of residential buildings. The structure which you are proposing to use as a living unit does not rileet any of the minimum conditions in order to be used as habitable space, therefore, I cannot approve your request. I have attached a copy of the minimum Housing Code requirements for your reference. If you have any questions, please feel free to phone me at 726-3666. Sincerely,/: ! 1/ _,/'/' j,' i~ (-r60mas Marx Building Inspector /?~y; .I att Ih ',' . . v ..' -.f ,. . '. SEC. 503 SEC. 503 c shall be. provided.. (d) HALLWAYS. All public hallways, stairs, and other exitways shall be adequately lighted at all times in . accordance with Section '3313 of' the Structural Specialty Code and Fire and Life Safety.Code. SECTION 504 SANITATION. (a) DWELLING UNITS. Every dwelling unit shall be provided with a water closet, a lavatory and a bathtub or shower. (b) HOTELS. Where private water closets, lavatories, and baths are not provided, there shall be provided on each floor for each sex at least one water closet and lava~ory ~nd one b~th accessible from a public hallway. Additional water closets, lavatories, and baths shall be provided on each floor for each sex at the rate of one for every additional 10 guests, or fractional number thereof in excess of 10. Such facilities' shall be clearly marked for "Men" or IIWomen" . (c) KITCHEN. Each dwelling ~nit shall be provided with a kitchen. Every kitchen shall be provided with a kitchen sink. No wooden sink or sink of similarly absorbent material shall be permitted. ( (d) FIXTURES. All plumbing fixtures shall be connected to a sanitary sewer or. to an approved'private sewage disposal system. All plumbi.ng fixtures shall be connected to an approved system. of water supply and provided with hot and cold running water, except water closets shall be provided with cold water only. All plumbing glazed earthenware ma ter ial. fixtures . type or of shall be .of a similarly an approved nonabsorbent (e) WATER CLOSET COMPARTMENTS. Walls and floors of water closet compartments except in dwellings shall be finished in accordance with Section 510 (b) of the. Structural Specialty Code and Fire and Life Safety Code. (f) bathtub, installed occupant. shall. be rooms by a ROOM SEFARATIONS. Every water closet, or shower required by this Code shall be in a room which will afford privacy to the A room in which a -water closet is located separated from food preparation or storage tight-fitting door. (g) ( , .... '~.. INSTALLATION AND MAINTENANCE. All sanitary -78- I . . '. ''-...f., . " ~, SEC. 502 SEC. 503, c" projection shall obstruct a required exitway. SECTION 503. LIGHT AND VENTILATION. (a)' All guest rooms, dormitories,' and habitable rooms within a Awelling unit shall be provided with natural light by means o,f windows or skylights with an area of not less than one-tenth of the floor area of such rooms with a minimum of 10 square feet. All bathrooms, water closet compartments, laundry rooms, and similar rooms .shall be provided with natural or mechanical ventilation by means of windows, skylights or mechanical ventilation. Natural ventilation shall be provided within ~n area of not less than one-tenth of the floor area of. such rooms with a ininimum of 3 square 'feet. (b). ORIGIN OF LIGHT AND VENTILATION. windows shall open directly onto a street alley or a yard or court located on the same building. ' Required or public lot as the C'" ...:: EXCEPTION: Required windows may open into a roofed porch where the porch: '(1) Abuts a street, yard, or court; and (2) has the longer side at least 65 percent open and unobstructed. / , A.required window in a service rOOm may open into a vent shaft which is open and unobstructed to the sky and not less than 4 feet in least dimension. No vent shaft shall extend'through more than two stories. For the purpose of determining light and ventilation requirements, any room may be considered as a portion of an adjoining r'oom when one-half. of the area of the common wall is open and unobstructed and provides an opening of not less than one-tenth of the floor area' of the interior room or 25 square feet, whichever is greater: c (c) MECHANICAL VENTILATION. In lieu of openable windows for natural ventilation, a mechanical ventilation system may be' provided. Such system shall be capable of providing two air changes per hour in ~ll- guest rooms, dormitories,habitable rooms, and in public corridors. One-fifth of the air supply shall be taken from the putsid~. In bathroo~s, water closet compartments, laundry rooms, and si~ilar rooms a mechanical ventilation system connected directly to the outside, capable of providing 5 air changes per hour, -79- .~. I ":.'~ SEC. 503 . . SEC. 701 . facilities shall and sanita'ry applicable laws. be installed and maintained in condition and in ac~ordance safe wi th CHAPTER'6 STRUCTURAL REQUIREMENTS SECTION 601 GENERAL. (a) Buildings or structures may be of any type of construction permitted by the Structural Specialty Code and 'Fire and Life Safety Code. Roofs, floors, walls, foundations, and all other structural components of buildings shall be capable of resisting any and all forces and loads to which they may be subjected. All structural elements shall be proportioned and joined in accordance with the stress limitations and design criteria as specified in the appropriate sections of the Structural Specialty Code and Fire and ,Life Safety Code. Buildings 'of every permitted type, of construction shall comply with the applicable requirements of the Structural Specialty Code and Fire and Life Safety Code. /" '~: (b) SHELTER. Every protec'ted so as. to prov ide against the elements and to building shall be weather shelter for the occupants exclude dampness. ' (c) PROTECTION OF MATERIALS. protected against termite damage and in the Structural Specialty Code Safety Code. All wood decay as and Fire shall be provided and Li fe CHAPTER 7 MECHANICAL REQUIREMENTS SECTION 701 HEATING AND VENTILATION. (a) HEATING. Every dwelling unit and guest room shall be provided with heating facilities capable of maintaining a room temperature of "~degrees F. at a point 3 feet above the floor in alrhabitable rooms. Such facilities shall be installed and maintained in a safe condition as specified in Section 104 of the Springfield Building Code Administrative Code and all other applicable laws. No unvented fuel-burning heater shall be permitted. All heating devices or appliances shall be of an approved type. (b) ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT. All electrical equipment; wiring and appliances shall be installed and maintained in a safe manner in accordance with all applicable laws. All electrical equipment shall be of an approved type. -80- SEC. 701 '. . . , .""_0. ". ,I- " SEC. 80i Where there is electrical power available within 300 feet of the premises of any building, such'building shall be connected to such electrical power. Every habitable room shall contain at least two supplied electric convenience outlets or one such convenience outlet and one supplied electric light fixture. Every water 'closet compartment, bathroom, laundry room, furnace room, and public hallway shall contain at least one supplied electric light fixture. (c) VENTILATION. Ventilation for rooms and areas and for fuel-burning appliances shall be provided as required in the ,Mechanical Specialty Code and Mechanical Fire and Life Safety, Code. Where mechanical ventilation is provided in lieu of the natural ventilation required in Section 503 of this Code, such mechanical ventilatin~ system shall be maintained in operation during the occupancy of, any'building or port ion thereof. CHAPTER 8 EXITS SECTION 801 GENERAL. Every dwelling unit or guest room shall have access directly to the outside or to a public corridor. All buildings or portions thereof shall be provided with exits, exitways, and appurtenances as required by Chapter 33 of the Structural Specialty Code and Fire and Life Safety Code. ~ Every sleeping room below the fourth story shall have 'a~ least one operable window or exterior door approved for emergency escape or rescue. The units shall be operable, from the inside to provide a full clear opening without the use bf sepa'rate tools. All es~ape Or rescue windows from sleeping rooms shall have a minimum net clear opening of 5.7 square feet. The minimum net clear opening height dimensions shall be 24 inches. The minimum net clear opening width dimension shall be 20 inches. Where windows are provided as means of escape or rescue they shall have a finished sill height not more than 44 inches above the floor. Bars, grills, installed on an doors provided: grates emergency or similar devices may escape or rescue windows be or (a) release without effort; Such devices are equipped with approved mechanisms which are operable from the inside the use of a key or special knowledge or and , ,,,"--- -81-