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c To: Tim Tyler, Building Official From: Frank Marshall, Fire Marshall Date: October 31, 1996 Re: Sprinkler Ordinance - Chapter 16.76 EMC - Cafe By The Bay EMC 16.76.030A requires an approved automatic fire detection system for a group A occupancy that exceeds 3000 square feet. Cafe By The Bay is a group A occupancy exceeding 6000 square feet thereby requiring the installation and maintenance of an automatic fire detection system. EMC 16.76.030B requires the installation and maintenance of an automatic fire suppression system for a group A occupancy exceeding 6,000 square feet. An exception is provided requiring drinking and dining establishments to install an automatic fire suppression system in rooms used for the consumption of alcoholic beverages and unseparated accessory uses where the total area exceeds 5000 square feet. Cafe By The Bay is a group A occupancy in excess of 6000 square feet. Therefore, it exceeds both the 5000 and 6000 square foot thresholds set forth in EMC 16.76.030 B. As such, Cafe By The Bay is required to install and maintain an automatic fire suppression system. Cafe By The Bay's occupancy does not require that the remainder of the building have an automatic fire suppression system. EMC 16.76.060 provides that a single use of a multi -tenanted building requires that the entire building have an automatic fire detection and/or suppression system when there is a change made in the character of occupancies or use of the building placing the building in a different division of the same group of occupancy or in a different group of occupancies. Cafe By The Bay involves the utilization of existing restaurant space expanded to include space previously occupied by a small store. Although there is a change of use in a portion of the building from retail to restaurant, there will be no new type of occupancy introduced into the building nor will there be a different division of the same group of occupancy.