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Hello Heather,
We have an enormous volume of rooming houses in our Municipality, some of which serve the college that exists in our community. Realistically, if a single family home has been converted to room/boarding/lodging your Building Division should become involved for a potential change-of-use. Otherwise, you could apply the existing requirements of 9.3 provided it meets the application. Try to remove the zoning aspect from your decision making as it doesn’t involve the FD. If it doesn’t comply with zoning, the Building Dept.’s direction or permit applications resulting from a FD order would bring up the non-compliance to zoning. The CBO could always issue a conditional permit also.
Hey Jon,
The Code is pretty clear, “interconnected smoke alarm systems” require maintenance by a qualified person as per Div C and 6.3.2.1(2) of Div B. If my staff encounter these systems they’ll make sure maintenance has been occurring and if it hasn’t, usually an inspection order is issued to address the problem. Most fire safety companies are on board with it as it’s extra business for them (at least in my area). Procedures in a fire safety plan should reflect this maintenance also.