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FINDINGS OF FACT 1. The Appellant has appealed the Fire Department's decision requiring an approved automatic fire detection system in the Speedway Machine building. 2. The building is a newly constructed single story 6000 + square foot building, constituting a group B occupancy. 3. The project is within the thresholds requiring a SEPA review. 4. The SEPA Determination included the requirement for an approved automatic fire detection system. 5. The building permit for the project included the requirement for an approved automatic fire detection system. 6. A Certificate of Occupancy was issued for the building based partially on an approval by the Fire Department. 7. The Fire Department performed a subsequent inspection of the building, issuing a correction notice to install an approved automatic fire detection system. 8. Section 3 of Ordinance No. 1902-92 requires buildings over 3000 square feet of gross floor area to have an approved fire detection system. 9. The Appellant contends that: (1) Notice was defective; (2) Ordinance No. 1902- 92 does not apply; (3) System was accepted; and (4) Ordinance No. 1902-92 authorizes the fire inspector to waive this requirement. 10. The Fire Department contends that: 1) Ordinance No. 1902-92 applies to the automatic fire detection system requirement since this is a group B occupancy exceeding 3,000 sq. ft of gross floor area; (2) that the Appellant only installed a fire suppression system that did not include an automatic fire detection system; and (3) that the Fire Department did not waive the automatic fire detection system requirement nor did it have the authority to do so. CONCLUSIONS 1. Ordinance No. 1902-92 applies to this building. 2. Section 3 of Ordinance No. 1902-92 requires an approved fire detection system in buildings over 3000 square feet in gross floor area and this buildings exceed that threshold. �3