Committee recommends council consider shrinking minimum dwelling-unit area to 120 square feet

At the Building Code Council BFRW committee meeting on April 10, members recommended that the full council consider a package of IBC amendments that would reduce the minimum habitable area for a one-room dwelling unit to 120 square feet, narrow some kitchen clearances to 30 inches where those clearances are not part of an egress route, and strike the separate “efficiency dwelling unit” definition from the draft model code.