607 SE EVERETT MALL WAY STARBRIGHT DAYCARE 2016-01-01 MF Import

The following information is from the Uniform Buiiding Code (1997 edition) as it applies to daycare. 305 Requirements tor Group E Occupancfes. 305.1 Group E Occupancies Defined. Group E occupancies shall be: Division 1. Any building used (or educational purposes through the 12'" grade by 50 or more persons for more lhan 12 hours per week or (our hours in any one day. Division 2. Any bui�ding used for educational purposes through the 12'" grade by less than 50 persons for more than 12 hours per week or tour hours in any one day. Division 3. Any building or portion Ihereof used for day care purposes tor more than six persons. EXCEPTION: Family child day care homes shall be considered Group R, Divisfon 3 Occupancies. For occupancy separalions, see Table 3-B 305.2 Construction, Height and Allowable Area. 305.2.1 General. Building or parts of buildings classed in Group E because of the use or character of lhe occupancy shail be limited to the types of construclion set (oRh in Table 5•B and shall not excee�, In area or height, the limits specified in Section 504, 505 and 506, except that Ihe area me�� be fncreased by 50 percent wher ths maximum travet distance specified in Section 1004.2.5 is reduced by 50 percent. 30522 Atmospheric separation rzquirements. 305.2.2.1 DeliniHons. For the purpose ol this chapter and Section 1007.3, the foliowing definitions are applicable: COMMON ATMOSPHERE exists between rooms, spaces or areas wilhin a building that are not separated by an approved smoke- and draft-stop barrier SEPARATE ATMOSPHERE exists between rooms, spaces or areas that are separated by an approved smoke barrier. SMOKE BARRiER consists of walls, partitions, iloors and openings iherein as will prevenl ihe iransmission of smoke or gases through ihe conslruction. See Seclion 905. 305.222 General Provisions. The provisions ol this section appiy when a separate exit system is required in accordance with Section 1007.3. Walls, parlitions and floors forming aIl or part of an atmospheric separation shall be as required by Section 9052.3. Glass lighls of approved wired glass sel in steel frames may be installed in such walls or partitions. All automatic•closing fire assemblies installed in the atmospheric separation shali be aclivated by approved smoke detectors. The specific requiremenls of lhis section are not intended to prevent the design or use of other systems, equipment or techniques that will effectively prevent the products of combustion from breaching ihe atmospheric separation. 305.2.3 Special provlslons. Rooms in Division t and 2 Occupancies used for kindergarten, lirst- or second-grade pupils, and Division 3 Occupancies shall not be located above or below ihe first slory. EXCEPTIONS: 1 Basemenis or stories having floor levels located within 4 feet (1219 mm), measured vertically, trom adjacenl yround level at the point of exit discharge, provided the basemenl or slory has exterior exit doors at that level. 2 In buildings equipped wilh an aulomatic sprinkler syslem �hroughout, rooms used for kindergarten, first- and second-grade children or lor day-care purposes may be located on the second story, provided there are at ieast two exit doors into separate means of egress systems as delined in Seclicn 1007.3. 3 Division 3 Occupancies may be located above lhe first story in buildings of Type I construclion and in Types II-F.R., II One-hour and III One•hour conslruction, subject to the limitation of Section 506 when: 3.1 Divisio�� 3 Occupancies containing more than 12 children per story sha�l not be located above the fouAh floor; and /� CITY OF EVERETT BUILDING DEPARTMENT 3200 CEDAR ST., EVERE7T WA 98201 425-257•8870