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Email-2 Zoe Senior Retirement Community use group 2013-03-0610/17/2014 City of Northampton Mail - Zoe Care assisted living facility https://mail.google.com/mail/ca/u/0/?ui=2&ik=ec5f19a57e&view=pt&q=assisted&qs=true&search=query&th=13d41f48c3a66acc&siml=13d41f48c3a66acc 1/1 Louis Hasbrouck <lhasbrouck@northamptonma.gov> Zoe Care assisted living facility 1 message Louis Hasbrouck <lhasbrouck@northamptonma.gov>Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 6:06 PM To: Charles Miller <cmiller@northamptonma.gov> Chuck, Here’s a piece of the IBC commentary about dormitories (an R-2 use): Dormitories are generally associated with university or college campuses for use as student housing, but this is changing rapidly. Many dormitories are now being built as housing for elderly people who wish to live with other people their own age and who do not need 24-hour-a-day medical supervision. The only difference between the dormitory that has just been described and the dormitory found on a college campus is the age of its occupants. If the elderly people must have 24-hour-a-day medical supervision (i.e., a nurse or doctor on the premises), the building is no longer considered a residential occupancy but an institutional occupancy and would have to comply with the applicable provisions of the code for the appropriate Group I occupancy. Similar to Group R-1, individual rooms in dormitories are sleeping units and are required to be separated from each other by fire partitions and horizontal assemblies in accordance with Sections 420, 709.1 and 712.3. The architect sent over the regulations that govern Assisted Care Facilities and those regulations pretty much state that the residents can’t need 24 hr medical supervision if they stay in the proposed facility. I’m closer to buying it. Louis Hasbrouck Building Commissioner City of Northampton Town of Williamsburg 212 Main Street Northampton, MA 01060 (413) 587-1240