My "Dangerous" Windows.

[mbarrick]

I went to the library today.

Vancouver Building By-Law

9.7.1.3  Bedroom Windows

1.) Except where a bedroom door provides access directly to the exterior or the suite is sprinklered, each bedroom shall have at least one outside window openable from the inside without the use of tools or special knowledge.

2.) Windows referred to in Sentence (1) shall provide unobstructed openings with areas no less than 0.35 m² and with no dimension less than 380 mm.

9.7.1.6 Height of Window Sills above Floors or Ground

2.) Windows need not be protected according to Sentence (1) where

c) the window sill is located more than 450 mm above the finished floor...

Our windowsills are 71 cm above the floor. The bedroom windows, when opened to the last stop of the bar on them now open exactly 38 cm.

Bottom line is, having our bedroom windows open any less than they currently do would violate the building code and our living room windows are, as far as safety is concerned, entirely up to code. The whole premise of the order is "to fix the Window [sic] wich [sic] is vary [sic] Dangerous [sic]..."

Yeah, whatever.

Comments

[sovietnimrod.livejournal.com]

Is your suite sprinklered? Otherwise this might be your cat in the bag...

Smart thinking; I'd never have thought to see what the civic building codes say - but the City sure loves uncovering building code violators to fill their coffers. You're their new best friend!

[seymour-glass.livejournal.com]

they never count on anyone knowing their rights or doing their research...but every once in a while it sure bites them in the ass...

[six-v2.livejournal.com]

that kicks the provrebital (spelling is for people like you) ass!

i love geting what i want because someone pissing me off was wrong! i say you shuld enjoy this!, Celabrate!!

[sycochk.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping you could help me, I have had this re-curring dream about this building in vancouver that I think may have been torn down in the late 80's. I dont remember much about it except that it had a theatre in it, which you got to by walking up a long sloping inclined hallway, I remember that I may have only been a 6 or 7 storey building, but what I need help with is to find out where I can look to find information about this place. I checked the library website and historic buildings of vancouver but they mostly showed old buildings from the early 1900's. I think the place I'm looking for was only build in the early 50's. it may have been a bank building as well.

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure. I can't think of anything specific. I've never been inside the Pantages Theatre (http://www.vcn.bc.ca/hrtgvanc/pantages.htm), so that might be a possibility. Is the hallway in your dream bright or dark? The Vancouver Centre cinema had a longish hallway leading to the parkade with white walls and a light tiled floor. I have a really vague memory of the old Science and Technology Museum on Granville that closed before Expo and got replaced by Science World. It was dark in there, black or dark-blue carpets, the building was about 6 or 7 storeys and everything was wheelchair-accessable. I don't remember if they had a theatre in there, but they probably did.

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Nope, no sprinklers.

There are actually a whole litany of violations in the building that I could be a real ass about if sufficently pissed-off.

All of this shit is a combination of an owner who doesn't really care (he inherited the building), building inspectors who would rather see older buildings torn down and replaced with glass towers, and a heritage committee that thinks what was done to the old public library, the old main post office (now Sinclair Centre), the old Hydro building, etc. is "preservation".

[sovietnimrod.livejournal.com]

Do you recall the general street vicity? If I have a rough idea which part of the city to look, I can check my Vancouver historical atlas - it contains most of the prominant landmarks since the 1860s...

[sovietnimrod.livejournal.com]

The only science place I can remember before the present Expo golf ball location was the Science and Technology museum located on the corner of Seymour or Granville on Dunsmuir, near the Railway Club.

[sycochk.livejournal.com]

well I think it might have been somwhere near pender and seymore, I remember it was probably a bank building, I remember back in 1990 when I worked at the immigration courts over on 800 burrard, I had lost my umbrulla and it was raing pretty hard, and I used that building as shelter until it stopped and I recall going to check what movies they were playing but the theatre part was shut down, but there was still the movie sign just on the outside of the building. I remember floor to celing clear glass walls on the first level. thanx so much!!

[sovietnimrod.livejournal.com]

Hmm... doesn't ring any bells. The only theatre I am vaguely aware of in that corner of town was one located on Hastings in the vicinity of Ms.T's Caberet. You can still see the old box office fronting but I never recall it being used as any sort of theatre within my memory. Judging from the architecture however, the site must have been rebuilt as some sort of small movie house sometime in the 1950s or early 1960s.

My dad used to work in the various old Royal Bank branches in that area of town back before I was born - I'll ask him next time I see him about any theatres in that area.

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Maybe it was something torn down for the new Hydro building?

[sycochk.livejournal.com]

I remember that theatre on hastings street, before it was demolished it was used as a rave location (early 90's) and a sometime midnite speakeasy where jazz was played. it was right next to that big pawnshop. thankyou so much for looking for me! its possible I am thinking of the vancouver center, although I do remember that there was banking done there as well.

[sovietnimrod.livejournal.com]

I think you might be right about Vancouver Centre - that could be it because besides the theatres there on the second floor there is that small mall located down below and which I think might be connected to the Bank of Nova Scotia just around the corner.