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Committee recommends council consider shrinking minimum dwelling-unit area to 120 square feet
Summary
At its April 10 BFRW meeting, the Building Code Council committee recommended that the full council advance amendments that would lower a one-room dwelling-unit minimum to 120 square feet, narrow non-egress kitchen clearances to 30 inches, and remove the separate "efficiency dwelling unit" definition.
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.
Dustin, who introduced the draft on behalf of the tag that developed the language, summarized the process: the tag reviewed RCW 19.27.801 and model code language, merged public proposals into a consensus draft and focused most edits in Section…
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