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DBI seeks planning code change to allow prescriptive rear-yard egress options
Summary
DBI staff presented proposed prescriptive alternatives to an information sheet (EG02) addressing emergency escape and rescue openings that open into rear yards; the department plans to ask the Planning Department to codify options to avoid lengthy variance processes and to preserve life-safety review.
Deputy Director Neville Pereira reported to the Building Inspection Commission that DBI has drafted four prescriptive alternatives to an interim information sheet, EG02, that addresses emergency escape and rescue openings that open into rear yards not directly connected to the public way. He said the State Fire Marshal and the local fire prevention agency retracted earlier prescriptive guidance in October 2021, leaving DBI to review such projects on a case-by-case basis.
"We have come up with about 4 options that we can prescriptively get behind," Pereira said, describing alternatives that…
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