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Appeals board declines hardship waiver for 1165 Coast Village Road, directs accessible route from Coast Village Road
Summary
The Building and Fire Code Board of Appeals declined to ratify the building official's hardship determination for permit BLD2025-00295 at 1165 Coast Village Road and directed the building official to require a compliant accessible route from Coast Village Road to the altered lower-level suites under CBC Chapter 11B.
The Building and Fire Code Board of Appeals on Thursday declined to ratify a building official’s hardship determination for permit BLD2025-00295 at 1165 Coast Village Road and instead directed staff to require a compliant accessible route from Coast Village Road to the lower-level tenant suites.
Staff told the board the project is a tenant improvement with a construction valuation of about $350,000 that converts one large suite into three tenant spaces and adds three accessible restrooms and an accessible path of travel. Under California Building Code Chapter 11B and the local ordinance, an alteration that triggers path-of-travel work generally requires the owner to spend up to 20% of the adjusted construction cost on accessibility upgrades. The applicant had committed 23% and presented two options staff…
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