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Vermillion council approves developer agreement to allow downtown hookah and cigar lounge while deferring costly sprinkler tap
Summary
The council approved a developer agreement allowing a change of occupancy for a proposed hookah and cigar lounge at a downtown Main Street address; staff said code requires a sprinkler system because the assigned occupant load meets the threshold, but a costly street tap makes immediate compliance impractical and the agreement will bind the building and schedule infrastructure work in future CIP planning.
Vermillion’s City Council voted to accept a developer agreement that will allow a proposed hookah and cigar lounge to receive occupancy while the city and property owner plan a long-term solution for required sprinkler infrastructure.
Staff presented the change-of-use request for a downtown Main Street property and said the international existing building code and the International Building Code (2018) require buildings that change from merchandiselike uses to assembly uses — and that reach an assigned occupant load of 100 or more — to meet current code, including sprinkler systems. “The 100 is what drove what is driving this particular requirement,” the presenter said.
City staff described major…
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