4708 DOGWOOD DR 2018-01-02 MF Import

Se� vieZ-mail Puecic WORKS November 6, 2012 Mr. Dennis Wagner Mr. Carlos Chaves-Velando Downtown Dennis Real Estate Services LLC By e-mail: comtech1042@yahoo.com 2213 Everett Avenue, Ste. A Everett, WA 98201 Protect: Daycare Occupancy Feasibility Review Site Address: 4708 Dogwood Dr Dear Mr. Wagner and Mr. Chaves-Velando, Thank you for both your interest in finding a location to open a daycare center in Everett. We met on October 15111 to discuss the feasibility of a change of occupancy for 4708 Dogwood Dr from a business (B) occupancy (with a nursery) to a licensed daycare (E) occupancy. An Everett building department certificate of occupancy was issued for a for a tenant improvement of offices, nursery in 1990. If the building was used for a different occupancy as educational use, the building owner was responsible to submit revisions to change the occupancy: "No change in the character of an occupancy of a building shall be made without a certificate of occupancy, certifying that the building complies with all provisions of this code," UBC 1988 section 502. The approved use of this building as a daycare in 1990 would have required construction revisions at that time, some of which are noted below: 1. If the classification of this building should have been daycare (E) in 1990, the following educational occupancy code requirements would have applied at the time of building permit application in January of that year: An automatic detection system was required for a daycare occupant load greater than 50, •per UBC 1988 section 809. The occupant load is determined by floor area within the exterior walls divided by 35 square feet (sf) for daycare use, and 100 sf for general use, per UBC 1988 table 33-A. • A one -hour occupancy separation was required between occupancies (B and E), per UBC 1988 table 5-B. • The north wall of the building would have required protected openings if the distance to the property line is less than ten feet, per UBC 1988 table 5-A. Current code requirements for daycare (E) are even more restrictive in regards to suppression: • An occupant load over 50 requires an automatic sprinkler system, per IBC section 903.2.3. The occupant load is determined Ly floor area within the exterior walls divided by 35 square feet (sf) net floor area for daycare use, and 100 sf gross floor area per occupant for business use, per IBC table 1004.1.1. Additionally, a change in occupancy from a business to educational occupancy where the •building area, as defined by IBC section 502, exceeds 5000 square feet requires automatic suppression, per EMC 16.76.060 and EMC 16.76.037. wired when the gross floor area of a building exceeds three Automatic detection is req _ thousand square feet, per EMC 16.76.035.