2815 WETMORE AVE 2018-01-01 MF Import

� ri • Dir. Ogden requested a preliminary plan revieca o£ plans for remodeling and for an addition to the Goldberg Furniture Store. � A review of the addition was made. It was suggested that it be considered a separate building by using a four hour wall and three hour openings separating it from the existing building. This interpretation was made at our Wednesday weekly meeting and endorsed by both the Inspection and the Fire Marshal Departments. On May 3rd an inspection was made by Larry Vognold, Don Hutter, and John Farrens of the existing building. A discussion of the complete building was made at the May 5th meeting of both department�. It is definitely a life hazard building. On May 6th, John Farrens called Mr. Ogden to report the requirements of the City for the building. The foI- lowing are the requirements: 1. Install two new approved stair enclosures. 2. Sprinkle entire building. 3. Make elevator hatch one hour. 4. The entire buiiding to be rewired electrically. John Farrens started to tell him the above requirements. He started with the first item (two new stairs). Mr. Ogden objected and s�id it was impossible to bring the building up to Code and that we could not require it. During the discussion of whether the City could require certain minimum requirements, Mr. Farrens stated that regardless of whether the addition was built or not, we were going to require these safety facilities to be done. Before he could explain the rest of the requirements, that they were because of life hazard reasons and that our requirements would be sometime in the future, Mr. Ogden hung up. D7r. Goldberg has been informed about some of these conditions some time ago, and at that time he asked to wait �ntil he built the addition to correct these life hazard conditions. The building is a four story huilding with basement and an attic used for storage. There is only one open stair. There are only openings in the rear of the building which would be used by the Fire Department to enter the buildi.ng to fight fires. Sprinklers are required where buildings do not have such openings on each floor. SVe felt we were giving Mr. Goldberg a very liberal internretation of the Code, which is to his advantage by considering these as two separate buildings rather than interpret it as one building which would require that th� whole building be brought up to code. / , ``- `-, ��i ,C� 5��:�/