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State of Wisconsin \ Department of Industry, Labor and Human Relations
September 17 t 1981l SAFETY & BUILDINGS DIVISION
File No. E-123~1$1{ 201 E. Washington Avenue
P.O. Box 7969
Madison, Wisconsin 53707
Mr. Ga.-y Soha."let
Sam s. SChahet & Company
3737 North Meridian street
Indianapolis, Indiana 116208
~-ar Mr-. Sohah.t:
Roliday Inn MotAl & Restaurant.
Sam s. Soh~et &: Company t OWner
500 South K~ller Boad
Oshkosh, W1nnepago County
Petition Rumbe~ 84-209
Your ~titlon tor varia.nee or seet!.on lLHR57 .01(2), 1984 Wisconsin State
Building Code, was 'considered on September 13, 19811. It was approved.
n.:rn 57 .01(2) Ea.ch living un.!.t shall be separated from .other living units,
OOl'mn011 use areas and from the exit access oorroidors with not. less than l-oour
fire-resistive construotion.
Th'9 varia..~oo req'.1Ssted is to pem! t sleeping rooms to faoa onto a."l ~elo:sed
recreational area without providing the required 1-hour sGttaration; to permit
sleeping rooms to face an enclosed corridor without providing the required
1-hour construction bet~Em. thesleep1ng room and.the oorridor.
Consldel~d ware your statements as foll~~:
,.. The existing sleeping roo~. which vill after alterations be adjacent to
the new Holidome spaoes, or corridors, do not have l-hour fi~ rat.ed
construction as the existing room. fronts are an aluminum and glass
partition system with a st.rip of' jalousies at the top.
2. The building will be entirely sprinklered.
3. The l'1el.fly created 1-hour stair \iell enolosl..l!'e8 will, in most. cases. be
1-nthin 50 feat from sleeping !"OOlB entrances.
ll. E:xlsting room doors will he fitted with a clo.sing device..
5. The jalousies will M permanently affixed and sealed at the Uolidoma side
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" 111'. Gary Sohahet
September 11, 1984
Page 2
6. Although. building oonstruct.ion at Chapter 57 portions of the building will
essentially be typs 5A, oonstruot1oa enoompssslng individual rooms lsf
with the exception of walls in question, 8" and 12" concrete block walls,
and 6~ thick poured in place oonoY"ete floors and oeilings.
7. EXisting partitions fronting the Holidome are noncombustible.
8. Existing t"OOm doors 2'f'$ holloy met.al..
9. The assembly hall portions of the building are separated by a 3-hourf1re
rated oocupancy ssparation.
10. Exits from sleeping rooms to enolosed stairways are direot and easily
understood, and visually apparent fl'Ola immediately outside of the rooms.
".. The eJd.st1ng $leeping rooms oontain smoke deteotors, per code, and. 'Soliday
Inn requirements..
12.. Public oo'M'"idors and spaoes oontain Holiday Inn required 8mo~ deteot.ors,
ha.."'ti-wired to a detection panel at. the front desk which is monitored at
all times) and displays where a f1!'$ has occ;m.rred..
13. As per> Holiday Inn specifications and r'Squirements. many room furnishings
and finishes are f:f.re-retardant; 01'" meet certain requirements pertaining
to t:tre rating or olass above and beyond \that one normally might find in a
typical apart::.uent building.
1~.. Battery paok emergency lighting will be installed in all ~xit oorridors
and passageways.
A copy of the peti t!on. showi ng departmental a.pproval is enclosed..
This approval is grantGd ~dth the understanding that all or petit1oner'3
stat~ment~ oited above ~.11 be carried out.
Stnce~17 you!"s,
Oahkosh Building, Inspector
Oshkosh Fire Department
Clyde Bryant, P.E.
Ch1.ef F.ngine~r
(Tel. 608-266-1835)
CB:FR2202
Dopt. of Health & Social Services
Hotel, Restaurant, Recreational <<
San1tatiou Section
141~ East Washington Avenue, RID. 88
r.~dison, Wisconsin
Ene.
co: R-3 Covill, phone 71'5-3Q6-3493,
Fr-tday
f~. James E. La~3on, Architeot
600 South Main Strget
03hkosh, WIsconsin 54901