001i called to order the i guess this is a special meeting of the building board of appeals for september 22nd 2022 called order roll call paul darling here robert hart here kevin cox here david arnstall absent hugh fleck absent staff we have glenn dempsey here michael redmond here john reiser here myself deborah williams roll call is complete and we do have a quorum thank you first time the agenda is the approval of the agenda the motion for that move to approve second was in favor aye approval of the minutes from the september 15 2022 uh meeting last week can you get a there's a summary of those meetings in here we had some technical difficulties and had to uh adjourn the meeting so can we have a motion to approve that uh motion to approve
002those in favor aye aye those pass appeals and action and show cost hearing for bba a 22-02 for 616 east washington street ann arbor michigan and the first thing item here we'll have is a staff report of that okay i'll go ahead with the staff report um glenn dempsey speaking as you can see under the introduction the screening room building operated by the michigan theater is located on a separate adjacent lot from the theater and connected to it the lot is also the construction site of a new 19-story high-rise building under construction which is designed to wrap around the screening room the petitioner is requesting modifications to means of egress to allow the continued use and occupancy of the screening room building during the construction of the high rise during this approximately one and a
003half year period petitioners provo proposing that alternative exit arrangements be approved incorporating the use of the building and lots in the immediate area of the screening room the request involves several variables including a phased approach to egress egress paths through active construction sites egress passed through two buildings under construction on those sites and occupant load adjustments and with that this seems like a very complicated proposal and project i believe it's quite simple it's not as complicated as it looks the code is not the code is being met the code does apply and the applicant isn't proposing any equal or better allowance to exit the building i might also say an approval of this request and with the employees and the public are in harm's way i believe that with the information provided the building board
004of appeals should deny this keep in mind the board has no authority to waive the code requirements with that um the staff would recommend denial of this proposed allowance for exiting during the construction process okay thank you glenn and we have an athletic in here can come up and give us an update on your parents request yes hi laura eater with esg architects out of minneapolis um we are the architecture firm for the um 616 and 630 building that's surrounding the michigan theater we have scott bowers here who's the architect for the michigan theater and we also have russ collins here with us who's the um what is your role lebron pro that of the executive director of the michigan theater um are you going to share in the presentation awesome okay i thought the
005best way to go through this would be to talk through the staff analysis um so that we're just touching on those points since we were all here we talked about this for over two hours and here we kind of know what we're doing here so the first topic you can go to the next slide is the fire suppression system we talked last time about how the fire suppression may not be operable or operational during the construction we have figured out how to connect it to the 630 building during construction so 6 30 will be have a tco when this goes into effect when this process goes into effect of the change of egress and so we will keep the fire suppression system active the entire time that the michigan theater screening room is occupied so
006through the extent of the 616 construction it'll temporarily be tied into 6 30 until 616's fire suppression system is activated so we can't tie into the michigan theater suppression system that's not that doesn't have the capacity but it does have it on 6 30. so we will go into that building so um that's one item that we had talked about um next slide so stage three limits the occupancy to 49 occupants for a single means of egress that would be the center line here stage three which is approximately 180 days from january to june-ish um talking through limiting the occupants so that there's only one means of egress out of the screening room so going to the next slide we're highlighting on this page the ownership of the buildings so true property lines tend to
007follow ownership lines this is not the case here there are very many long lengthy legal agreements that the michigan theater owns the michigan theater the existing screening room and what will be the michigan theater restrooms within the 630 building so though there are property lines the ownership and operation will be concurrent through the michigan theater next slide please here's kind of a zoomed in portion we talked last time about the potential for exiting through the michigan theater restrooms there's a little kind of nubbin to the south north east of the michigan theater and next to the screen room and michigan theater restrooms that will ultimately be available during this time of single occupancy so then there would be two egress points one through the michigan theater lobby and one through the michigan theater restrooms both
008would be operational at that time they would not be under construction and then this is the slide showing the existing screen room once construction is complete so one of the reasons that property line did not jog around the existing screening room is because today there is a property line between the machine theater and existing screen room already and if we were to jog that in its final condition we would be asking you to approve this for the entirety of the life of the building where the egress would go back into the michigan theater we don't believe that that's the best egress path for the existing screening room we're only asking for temporary means during construction and we feel that it's safer for the for occupants to exit back through the michigan theater lobby than through
009the construction site so the property line and ownership diagram are varied because we think ultimately the existing screen room exiting through the 616 building is a higher level of protection for the occupants in the screening room next slide please okay so this is the submitted document on how you egress out of the existing screening room we have added the red line that takes you through the restrooms so the new construction the 630 building is a type 1a construction it is a higher construction rating it has a three-hour support system and is fully sprinklered so it is kind of as you exit the existing screening room you will have a higher level of fire protection as well as construction as you exit and it is still under the 250 feet maximum travel distance to the exit
010next slide so travel distant distance exit for an assembly occupancy and sprinklered buildings is 250 feet we vary between 141 and 214 based on a few paths so i highlighted this path which is go ahead to the next one you're good 214 through the michigan theater lobby from the back side of the screening room and then the next one would be 210 if you went through the restrooms on that path and then the next one is 170 if you went through through the existing screening room and through the restrooms on the other alternate path next slide occupant load so the occupancy of the screening room currently as it was designed was 257 occupants we're asking to limit 49 for this temporary use for the 180 days for construction we are willing to remove seats cover
011seats block seats off kind of discuss how that if the building board of appeals has a as a recommendation on that how how that is covered with the world of covid and all of us wearing masks today maybe we don't want 49 seats in there because we might want to spread apart a little bit so that's just something to keep in mind next item so moving to the next portion of the staff report is stage four egress through the construction site so this is when we have one exit onto the 616 property and we kind of regain that larger occupancy count so next slide i know the staff report had stated that various egress routes was fairly vague it will be important for the construction team to understand with timing what is the best route
012and i can't draw that on the map currently because we won't know as the phasing and the timing happens until we get closer what that route is but i'm certain that the landmark construction team would be happy to submit that to to the building department for review and we will follow the chapter 33 safeguards for construction as pedestrians and and occupants of the building egress through that out to the public way next slide safeguards during construction chapter 33 outlines chapter 33 is established that reasonable safety precautions are to be provided during construction and demolition to protect protect the public from injury and adjoining properties from damage so ideally you would not have any issues with the safety of the occupants of the screening room exiting through the construction site when these routes are in place
013one of the reasons we're asking for the 180 days is because we are not feeling like it would be safe for them to cross that construction site until that time so construction has said that is the length of time we need to make sure that we feel comfortable providing a clear path lighted covered protected that no one would get off the path and be in a dangerous situation again we have the letter from rus stating their support so that we do not close the michigan theater and then next slide in conclusion we feel that we propose an equal exiting plan during construction that would allow safe egress of the screening room occupants the first part is not exiting across the construction site during unsafe times which is stage three and exiting through the 630 restrooms
014increases the fire safety of the occupants as they egress within the type 1 a construction and then exiting through the michigan theater lobby does not decrease the fire safety of the occupants as long as you don't imagine that it's a separate building because it's not if we're taking out the horizontal exit the exit passageway we're taking all that out of the discussion and just saying we're exiting through the same building that doesn't that doesn't come into play so it would still remain as the same fire safety and then item two exiting one exit through the 616 construction site once safe following the chapter 33 minute michigan building code safeguard requirements and keeping one exit through the michigan theater allows occupants to exit in the direction that's most safe in the case of emergency during stage
015four and then if actually will you go back two slides and then we'll go into the last two slides if there's questions about exiting thank you okay does the board have any questions could you go back to the page 21 slide that talks about stage four yes um the the yellow bar that represents the temporary second egress screening room what does that terminate on because it shows it as part of the finished plan i went by the site this morning there's a there's a fence that basically and obviously an excavation but there's also a fence that seems to come right up to the backside of lane hall so if if that yellow line egress was deployed would it exit onto an open and unobstructed clear path to the sidewalk yes so my understanding is that
016the fire lane will need to be operational to get the tco of the 630 building it will and so that is the fire lane that dead ends to the 630 building so they that is actually the main egress point that exit point will be the final exiting point for the screening room to come out of the building and then they'll be able to use the fire lane to um to walk to washington street so yes it will be a walkable protected path and if there is construction overhead there would need to be construction safeguards for protecting people along that path okay and then um there's a means of egress from the northwest corner of michigan the michigan theater that that leads to an open alleyway does it that's it that's correct yes is there a
017reason why that yellow bar couldn't be down the uh i guess the north wall of the michigan theater yes and i think the idea that i highlighted this yellow bar was this is the final exit path i wouldn't say this is the only exit path that they would have i think there's a chance that this yellow bar could go straight to washington for a year and then they all of a sudden need to finish the lobby and then it goes to towards the parking ramp with the protection i think there's various routes from the exiting of the screening room to six to washington street that will be provided um when as construction allows because the they're going to need to finish this level one at some point so exterior walls are going to start showing
018up cmu is going to be installed on one side and i think can i i know construction is going to have to have various egress routes over the course of this year and a half so this yellow bar is not to represent um the only path it's just an optional path and the final path which makes it kind of the easiest route to show because it'll probably end up being the longest standing route allow the route that they use the most i have a question about the egress path that's going through the 630 building will those restrooms be built out at that period of time are they going through that or is that going to be a shell space and the fixtures will be put in after the other means of egress is set up
019it'll be built out completely operational currently the restrooms are to the left-hand side of the existing screening room and to demolish that building the 6 30 restrooms have to be in full operation for the michigan theater to continue operating those the existing doors that are in the bathrooms right now as are those not swinging the wrong way for fire egress um so the doors going into the restroom from the screening room are swinging in the direction of final we'll call it final design so that way there is no egress across the property lines which is one of the things we talked about in the building board of appeals about a year and a half ago was that each building has to egress itself in its final stages and then you didn't want to block anybody
020in we we had the idea that you could fire shutter down and the building board of appeals at the time said well if i went through that door and everybody's panicking i might want to go back through it even if i find out there's a fire on the other side if you give me a fire shutter i might actually start to panic so those doors are currently swinging in the direction of travel for the final but it doesn't say that we couldn't switch door swings throughout construction to allow for the um the varied egress paths that are happening during the the two years and that's just the new construction area that's just a blanked off area right now there's no restrooms there's no nothing right there correct so when we're exiting through the uh kind
021of following on bob's point about exiting through the the 6 16 building that's under construction the remainder of the path is that going to have egress lighting is what is the what is the you know at night i think mostly it's going to be activated money is there going to be those provisions out there yeah i believe the provisions require overhead protection if there's work above walls that keep people from going out and then lighting um and i think there's some other requirements as well i'm sorry i'm blanking on that i don't tend to chapter 33 do that but yeah we would follow all of that and then if glenn wanted us to do something i'm sure that the team would would add it just to make sure that those occupants are safe when they're
022egressing because it is it you know as somebody in a screening room and then a fire or something happens and then going out you want to make sure that's a clear lit path that people feel protected going on so we've talked about the fire suppression system being being active in the screening room what about the fire alarm systems between the 630 building will there be some type of device happening in there if somebody's in the restrooms and the alarm goes off that you know people are going to be you know i don't know it's possible to connect those things but that's a component of it is the fire alarm as well yeah so the way they'll work um which was part of the previous building board of appeals is all the doors that are connected
023between each building will close automatically regardless of which building which buildings alarm goes off so if the michigan theater a building alarm goes off all those doors at all those property lines will automatically close so um i'm not there the alarm probably will not go off the alarm will not go off in the 630 building if the michigan theater's alarm is going off but those doors between them will automatically close regardless of which side is happening that'll be far enough along that that'll be operational by the time that they need that to be operational correct i don't believe that the building department would give us a temporary certificate of occupancy for those restrooms unless the fire alarm was operational so and you're saying at stage four the occupant low your requesting would be back up
024to the 257 versus the 49 correct because we would have two means of egress one through the construction site and one through the michigan theater lobby question board have more questions you know it does seem like a something that the bba would be able to the process should go to the vba because it's not going to be written in the normal code about the unusual circumstances like this correct tonight on there about i can be certain construction but yeah and i think one of the things that complicates this too is the existing door between the screening room and michigan theater and then the previous approval of the 630 crossings so that both of those are we'll call it outside of the true black and white portion of the code and since they've been previously approved
025since the michigan theater operates all of these as though it's one ownership the property lines to me are a dashed line on a survey and not truly the intent of the code property line scenario here so if they you know if their variance was supported it seems like we'd want to have some type of temporary co at the beginning of each stage by the building department so the building department would require if any use of the 630 building they have to have a temporary cfo to obtain that temporary cfo they would have to have the complete shell done and have to have the suppression alarms all in um you know there's there's quite a bit involved while the whole building doesn't have to be done on the individual yeah apartments uh to get that temporary
026they have to have at least the floor above all the main items done and the safety factors put in place for any type of tco for the 630 building for this it's not just the minimum of finishing the fixtures on the first floor and that would be true for the 616 building before the other way went through the other egos is going through the yes that is correct yeah so is that achievable a temporary co as far as having other things in place for the 630 building on the 616 building before those uh before the before the stages change i think that's absolutely achievable and that would be something that we would we would work with the building department on and the fire department and it seems like you know we'd want to have probably
027additional you know fire inspections or some type of inspection to make sure that the everest path is clear during consequent between temporary cos that the egress path is clear there aren't obstructions that the things are working this are supposed to be working you know i don't know if that would be monthly or what periodic that potentially you could be at but that's actually building would be looking at those exit ways if allowed for any use during construction so if they called for an inspection it would happen but if they were between inspection periods you know would that still occur or could the building would build them facilitate that we would work with them as best okay yeah okay and checking those exits yeah yeah um the difficult part is is during construction if the exits
028want to be changed and if we've approved one exit and they want to modify it you know that how often is that might that happen yeah uh-huh it seems like we don't want to tie it to any change in the sequencing of the operation the occupant mode the that's what it seems exchanging between those sequences is uh the path or the occupant mode anything like that would definitely have to get like a different temporary co or an updated temperature or it's it's a very unusual situation it is yeah uh very few jurisdictions will ever come across this in michigan you might have them in in larger cities uh not and not on a regular basis yeah yeah it makes me think of like a hybrid construction when the lower floors are occupied and then top's
029not done yet but that still goes through a process you know and that's a single building not not multiple different properties but but it seems like measures like that could make sure that they're ensuring that the egress path is clear the billings are safe you know to make that happen if that is the concern and the alarm systems are working that works at the time of inspection yeah yeah here we have the human factor that comes involved in construction yeah um yeah and changes that may have to apply yeah you know um i'm not sure uh they'll be able to call us right now we're making this change there might be a little bit of delay in that you can work with them as best as possible but you have factors involved in construction so
030i mean it would be that i guess if the systems aren't operational it means that maybe that screening room's not used at night or something if something's physically not working you don't have a ceo for that day or you know uh i mean it's completely possible for the building department or the fire department to shut shut this down if it doesn't work to the to the agreement that we're making today if we make an agreement so that's what i was thinking if there was a periodic inspection once a week or something like that that you would be able to check on that there there's kind of an honor system there but you'd also need to also be a check that yes the things are operational is intended and they're not you know yeah i think
031at minimum if they're looking to change the way they're doing things they would i would want them to submit it through a revision process that i'd have my plan reviewer look at and then we can address it accordingly yeah and i would only see that as the various egress routes through the through the construction and that's a year and a half long so i can imagine they're not tearing stuff down and moving it every week so i think that seems like a reasonable process so you'll submit an updated sequencing plan we're showing the egress the fire ratings what's alarm systems are working i think that could be worked out or at least a a check-in phone call with the construction team that says this is the plan for the next six months so that the
032inspectors know what to look for so would we require them to turn in a sequencing plan could you talk into a certain time would we have them would we be requiring them to turn in a sequencing plan that would be appropriate yeah an overall sequencing plan up front and then each time they go to the sequence you would say here's what's changing here's where demo english were changing and you know status of construction i think that would i think that would help the building department the fire department understand what's happening and then it would be a piece of paper to point to to say we agree to this rather than a building board of appeals meeting note that happened two years ago i think that seems like a fair statement i'd probably be the one
033making that so i guess i'm committing myself to doing this any other questions or ready to make a motion or try to crack emotion yeah i might add one thing would you mind if i sorry um if you would please um indicate which item allows the peel to go forward um there are three construction yeah if you want to make sure that you clearly identify which which item will if it doesn't apply if you prove it yeah yeah identify which item yeah allows them to be approved okay thank you so i'll advance emotion to but i can't i can only do so in support of the stage four part of the project and the reason for for that at least for me is that i think that there are just too many dicey operational issues
034that that with stage three that rely essentially on one exit and keeping keeping an occupant count within 49 people and the reason i could support advancement emotion for stage four is because you have a second means of egress so i'm going to proceed on that basis with emotion i'm sorry i'm going to proceed on that basis with emotion um is it possible for me to make a note and show the rest of the slides and show an option for stage three that we haven't talked about sure let's slide back up for stage three deborah these stage three does two have two means of egress there's one through the restroom and one's back through the yeah but it's basically down the same passageway there's an element of a common path of traveling issue yeah so if
035you go to yes so come in path of travel here if you go to the next slide one of the things that we looked at is actually constructing a temp wall about halfway through the screening room to really limit that that occupancy i know glenn's report was very uncertain how you could limit 49 occupants in a room that could fit 250 so pulling that wall and then also pull it putting a wall on the corridor as well so that you're now doing a ramp within temp ramp within the space taking out seats that allow to be closer to that 50 number this slide shows exactly 60 and then keeping that egress route um to uh the same point coming around those seats and up and out the exterior there and that would still remain in
036the in the egress uh distance so this limits that occupancy to 49 in a much more we'll call it condensed room with putting up what i'd call a 5 foot wall so that the projector screen still hits the screen we're not constructing a wall that goes to the roof we'd be constructing something that that blocked people from from getting to the other side um and so then that gray area would no would not be occupied during this stage three portion as a means to reduce that and that helps with the common path of travel it does help with common path travel so common path of travel would be remain under 75 feet to the point that you get into that corridor and you can go either direction through the lobby or the restrooms and without
037that partition the common path of travel is pretty high that's twice that probably it is about twice that that's why we were trying to use that egress um the exit passageway for the corridor previously so um but going back through the lobby is really what is the issue and using the ramp is really nice to have the ramp that's already existing for the accessible route but it is hurting us in our common path of travel standpoint so instead of constructing a temp stair at that corner this would be constructing a temporary ramp this is a much more intrusive plan to the theater screening room but as temporary and in an effort to keep the screening room open um we're entertaining this and i will let russ say a word or two of just why he
038we want to keep the screening room open if i may so we have an agreement with the builder that if they close any part of the building they pay us a penalty so keeping the screening room open is not a matter of money for the michigan theater foundation we have just not a surprise to anybody been suffering for two and a half years of cobit where audiences have stayed away from public gathering spaces the michigan theater has an extremely strong safety record over my 40 years of stewardship of the michigan theater foundation i'm a little distressed that there's concern that we would not conform to the limited capacity that would be required that's something that we've done for 40 years in the venues that we've operated we've operated within the legal limitations of the capacities
039for each of the rooms that we have we have offered to take out the seats so that there's only 49 seats or take out the bottom of the seats so there's no way to sit in them the reason that we want our customers and staff to be safe again we have an excellent safety record we would not put the audience in risk and if there was a day or a week that we had to close the theater because of some kind of construction dynamic that would threaten that we would certainly do that but we are trying desperately to reconstruct the community's confidence in coming back into public performance spaces we require masks we require vaccinations we are about public safety in our venues i deeply appreciate your excellent minds thinking through those issues for us
040you're the experts in this particular area but you can be absolutely assured that we are not going to cheat we are not going to butch we are not going to do anything that threatens the safety of our staff or the customers the michigan theater is operated that's the michigan theater foundation has operated that theater for for 43 years and i've been there for 40 of it and you can go back and check our safety records and keeping the screening room open every possible day allows us the flexibility to provide the diverse programs this community demands it also is a place for cinema because the two things that we do are live on stage productions that can only take place in the historic theater and the cinema that takes place in both the historic theater and
041the screening room if we lose the screening room we will probably lose the ability to show films at the michigan theater for up to two years after the construction is done and that's because that's the way film distribution works you either have the capability to service their product or you don't have that capability and you lose that opportunity until you can convince them that you you will be back in the game on a regular basis so we pledge the safety of our customers of our staff we pledge compliance with the restrictions that are required we are quite satisfied with the way that the owners that that are adapting this to make it so that we have the full and complete understanding of how to create that safety how to modify when the safety is needed
042and i'm a little hurt but who cares that there's that that there's anxiety about us complying because if it was just about money we just close the state we just close the screening room and have them pay us but we have these bigger missions excuse me driven i'm sorry you feel hurt but we're looking at this from a slightly different perspective than you are okay i mean i i don't distrust your veracity or your commitment to safety or anything like that not at all but again we're looking at this from a very different point of view and you guys are coming in asking for a lot in terms of what the building official is being is advising which is no way no how and we're looking to try to find a way to make this
043work i appreciate that good then please continue well that's it i mean that that's the only the the the the the two things that i wanted to point out is if it was just about money we'd close the screening room and take the checks from the developers this is about working in the best way we can in the safest manner that we can to continue the mission and and the the service that we provide to the community and and having that screening room is a key part even in a reduced capacity it is extremely valuable to what we do when we had to close the state theater for cinema exhibition we added a small theater into the cadillac building again so that we did not lose the consistency of being able to service the product
044for the for our film program and this is a very similar kind of situation and again i'm extremely grateful for your volunteer time i'm extremely grateful for the expertise and care that you share and and that you commit to this so thank you thank you very much i my uh my my anxiety to um uh as we've been through with the architects um how this might work and as my understanding has grown and my expertise does not meet your expertise i can't i can't honestly say that but this is this is an issue that obviously involves safety it involves correct operation to maximize safety and the other issue is it really does affect our mission our ability to serve the community and and and a to a certain degree the future of how we're able
045to continue to operate this community asset so again thank you so much um for your your cons you're careful consideration and it's it's very very meaningful um and uh my my only little bit would hurt was like well i don't know if those darn theater operators will will comply with the specifications and i i got to tell you that we absolutely will and we're happy to have any kind of inspections that are are needed to verify that we would be very very open to that so again thank you so much all right thank you any other questions from the board or from staff can we go back to the slide that you just sprung on us sure i had a feeling it was going to go that way so i'm not going to lie i
046spent a good solid like two days reading the code and trying to come up with the best solutions and i feel like based on the last report that we got from staff this really does address some of the concerns about limiting the occupancy to 49 is limiting that area and really reducing the number of seats and then it also addresses the common path of travel issues so there would be less than 75 feet common path of travel until you had the point to choose between the machine theater and the restroom exit is there um is there a drawing designation for this somewhere in the blind number i don't see yeah drawing designation well i mean something that i can we can refer back to is in the motion oh in the motion um do you
047know can you tell what page it's on it's the last page the last page of the presentation [Applause] want a hard copy does that help what do you need for a record we can submit just this plan after the after today as part of the meeting minutes if you would like so well while we're looking at this so the portion that's shaded in blue is going to be the active 49. [Applause] that's the which which side is the seat removal the gray side of the gray side okay so there'd be no access to behind those seats and the screen is in front of those seats on the right hand side um and then the red the red dotted line is going up a ramp it is to an exit an exit and at that point
048you have two choices of exits so that's the that's the point of common path of travel so that's that red line represents 75 feet and then the blue line plus the ramp equals also 75 feet so you can get to that exit door via the ramp and also via a step just the ramp there yeah so there's no wall there there's a there's a railing around that landing on the ramp but that exit arrow is crossing so there would not be we could we could also put a staircase up to that as well just trying to two steps what is that two heights is that difference is it two steps um it's approximately a three foot grade change okay um there's three rides with four rides or something now yeah and so the reason i
049didn't draw a stair is because it would probably want to go north and that would impede the view of the of the screening but what we could do is do a stair that makes that landing a little wider and then reduce the number of chairs at that on the south side to keep kind of a another path there we could tweak it to add stairs they've been funneling everybody up the ramp up there yeah i think everybody had that common path yeah of putting in the yeah okay glenn is the door where it says exit have to swing in the direction of egress it doesn't matter until we hear greater than 49 occupants but it might help you to put the stair there though we could put this there either side of that component and
050it wouldn't block the door then if the temporary was falling the other way can we get the door to swing in the direction of ego even though it's not a we can okay it'll be a handicap code is there enough room for handicap they'd have to configure the landing right yeah you'd have to have a 60 inch turn around and then um the push pull clearances on the door on either side so yes we would configure that to meet the accessibility requirements of the ramp as well as the doors if i might might refer to the exit passageway and the requirements for that also good plan with you help me on that the reference you just made so when you enter an exit passageway it's supposed to exit to the exterior you have to have
051that and it doesn't go to the exterior it goes actually it will go into a new building another building it doesn't go right directly to the exterior that takes you to the public way and this plan in my opinion is not referencing any exit passageway this is just egress so we're we're removing the exit passageway and asking for the building board of appeals to to accept the ownership of the two buildings as the fact that these are two not two separate buildings that you're horizontally exiting through you're doing the 250 foot maximum egress travel distance and you're not reducing your um your fire protection through any of those exits so we're asking for the building board of appeals to look at this as though the michigan theater owns both buildings and you have 250 feet
052to exit the building and 75 feet to the choice between exits out of the screening room so the the the stage four doesn't have a exit passageway because that's a rated enclosure is that correct we're not calling it an exit passageway in that scenario because an exit passageway is something that you would use in my opinion to limit your common path of travel or your egress distance and we do not have either of those as an issue in stage four so i would not count that corridor as an exit passageway it's calling an exit pat or calling our core it's a corridor which you're allowed to exit through and into a lobby [Music] would there be any other doors under that passageway is a visit dedicated towards uh the screening room so all the doors
053in the in the corridor or three hour rating because ultimately that will be a three hour corridor and its final state once um the uh the final construction is finished so at install all of those doors will be three hour rated and closed on fire alarm and the doors that are existing currently are um are rated except for the door between the michigan theater and the screening room and that door is going to be updated as part of the um the new three-hour wall that's being constructed between the proper at that property line for glenn's request i have one other question for mr collins right thank you can you what is what might be the the intention for the audience within the screening room would it be a mixed audience with adults and children adults
054only you know above the age of 18 kind of thing or um our audience tends to just vary depending on what film we're showing so we would expect that all ages would be in the theater the majority of the audience is going to be adults okay all right okay thank you okay ready for motion or i think you're higher yeah going to be a single one or if it'd be two one for stage three it's four how do i best craft that i i was prepared to go over this single one but i'm just going to combine them since the variant sorry since the variance combines them both i'll try to combine them both so i hope this doesn't sound too different i move that in the case of bba 22-2002 the appeal of the
055building officials decision and 616 east washington is granted relief from sections 202 table 10 sorry table 106.2.1 104.1.2 102 4.4 102.6 and 102 8.1 for the stages uh three and four construction scenarios and that the building board of appeal modifies the building officials decisions decision for the reasons that the applicant has proposed a reasonable temporary exiting alternative for egress through the michigan michigan theater with the following stipulations for stage three that the plan titled unnamed dated 8 26 is advanced to limit the screening room to an occupancy of 49 with a physical barrier with the exiting through the michigan theater lobby with a much reduced common path of travel and a completed 630 building the plan presented would add a second stair at the top of the egress ramp and that the door from the
056screening room will swing in the direction of egress travel the screening room would be fire suppressed and have enunciation connected to a central michigan theater system that the staff will be trained to monitor and provide instruction on egress prior to each and any theatrical showing further for stage four that in addition to the exiting provisions from the screening room through the rated passageway to the michigan theater lobby and building restroom building a second nbc section 33 approved protected walkway discharging to an equally protected and uncovered open way being the fire lane by lane hull the construction manager for the project will detail this exit construct and submit to the city and osha as required any changes in the second egress route will be equally documented and approved prior to implementation that fire suppression will be
057maintained throughout the screening room and its egress components during the interim stage four construction period again that the staff will be trained to monitor and provide instruction on egress arrangements in a public address to the audience prior to any and each theatrical showing that the eastern egress egress doors from the passageway be reversed to comply with exit flow and be equipped with panic hardware um that if any if there are any transgressions from uh these variants stipulations or unacceptable conditions are brought to the building officials attention the building official may void the provisions of this variance and finally that the proposed variance is not waiving requirements of the code but rather offering an accommodation of a temporary egress condition that endeavors to maintain the intent of the nbc as to life safety and welfare i
058should amend this to say that the doors that are going to be in stage four that the doors that are going to be um reversed to swing in the direction of egress travel are the double doors at the top of the raided passageway from the michigan screening room and the door into the 630 building bathroom building we have a motion to have support motion motion a second discussion on motion do you want to have anything in there on inspections either just if it's ceos or you know any progress inspections or leads up to the building official for uh all right as an addition to both stages three and four stipulations that temporary cos will be in place for any component of the egress system that's required by the building official to be in place and
059did you mention there's a sequencing plan i think you put you put that in there about the sequencing plan narrative is that uh yeah well i mean the intent is that any time they change the configuration of the second move there's going to be a plan submitted and approved before you know it's implemented or used okay any staff questions on the motion clear just on the appeal which section are you allowing the peel to go forward i think he said based on all the means of construction i believe this one he picked there it's it's it's uh it was section three but i i i propose your equal form you know yeah i chose not i chose not to phrase it as an equal or better allowance it's an alternate means basically right proposal better
060so you have allowances that give you the ability to allow my interpretation to be you know varied from so you have three sections that you can choose from any other questions from staff for the board if not we can uh vote on the motion and with three people we're going to have the minimum to pass is going to be at least two out of the three for it to pass so those in favor i was opposed none so looks like motion passes [Applause] so next time the agenda is old business i don't see any old business no other new business reports to communication or reporting communications there any reports or communications none public commentary general do you believe the public wants to comment seeing none can they have a motion to adjourn most of the
061church those in favor all right you're adjourned