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Building Department Review <br />The existing council chambers currently has an occupant load posted at 92. The MN State Building Code <br />requires any assembly area with an occupant load greater than 50 to have two separate exit doors, <br />located a minimum of %2 the diagonal from each other. That is the reason the door located to the south <br />of the council desks was installed and it leads to the west exit passage way. <br />In other words, the chamber, because of the occupant load, needs two separate exits, one out the rear <br />of the council chambers and the other, which must open to an exit passage way, is near the front desks. <br />Both doors MUST swing out. <br />To add another door from the corridor near the stairs as requested (on the western side of the building <br />near the parking ramp), would also require a swing out (in the direction of travel). The swing of the <br />proposed "second door" would swing into the required exit from the council chambers and in effect <br />partially block the second exit. And, of course, blocking an exit door is never allowed. <br />In summary If the council wants to add a second door at the bottom of the stairs which opens <br />toward the parking ramp they would need too: <br />1) Install double doors in both the outer and inner doorways at the western <br />entrance (not just one or the other). <br />2) Inset the existing second exit door from the council chambers in order to <br />establish enough room for the proposed new double doors to swing freely. <br />Page 1 1 <br />