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December 11, 2023 Part 2 (# 1) City of Toronto 100 Queen Street West, Ground Floor, West Tower, Toronto M5H 2N2 RE: 2025 Midland Ave. Toronto, Ontario This Letter is to certify that the Registered Owner(s), Namely “Midland Medical Centre” which is considered a Highrise building having 1 underground floor and 4 above grade ; acknowledges that the proposed use of the building as indicated on the permit application noted is solely for the purpose of “Chang of Use” from a Medical Centre which currently contains the following: First floor (Ground Floor): Health club (101), Library (102), Restaurants (103), and Place of Worship with seats (104), and the rest of the floors are medical offices to a Long-Term Care Facility the client wants to keep the first floor “as is” and change the other floors into sleeping rooms and the South Wing of the fourth storey into an exhibition area with sales. and for the New Use of the Building to be in compliance with Building Codes, The City Zoning Bylaw and any other applicable laws, the following changes are proposed, and the project will be overseen by the contracted Architect. CURRENT USE PROPOSED CHANGE OBC REFERENCE MAJOR OCCUPANCY TYPE A-2 TO B-2 3.1.2.1 (1) 9.10.2 FIRE ALARM SYSTEM does not 1. Currently the fire alarm system equipment installed throughout the building includes (Annunciators, Control Panels, Fire Alarm Battery) 2. Standpipe and Hose System is currently on each floor 3. Sprinkler System – all floors -Wet sprinkler alarm on 1 stairs and penthouse -Dry sprinkler on stairs 2 and elevator shaft NO CHANGE 3.2.4 3.2.9.1 3.2.2.35 FLOOR ASSEMBLY FIRST FLOOR (BELOW & ABOVE): FIRE RESISTANCE OF 2 HOUR NO CHANGE TABLE 3.1.3.1 WALL ASSEMBLIES: 1 HOUR NO CHANGE 3.1.3.1 FLOOR ASSEMBLY OTHER FLOORS: FIRE RESISTANCE OF 2 HOUR NO CHANGE 3.2.2.38 PLUMBING FIXTURES: ACCORDING TO CURRENT NEED TO ADJUST ACCORDING TO CODE FOR GROUP B, SECTION
USE DIV 3 WITH 2 BARRIER FREE WASHROOMS, 8 WC FOR MALE AND 12 WC FOR FEMALE FOR THE FIRST FLOOR, AND 2 BARRIER FREE WASHROOMS, 4 WC FOR MALE AND 4 WC FOR FEMALE 3.7.4.3 EXITS NO CHANGE 3.4.1 to 3.4.4 Sincerely, Midland Medical Centre (Owner)
Part 2 (# 2) As a group we have learnt to navigate the Ontario Building Code much better now that we have completed section 2 and read the full 157 first pages of chapter 3, however, we think it can be divided into better sections without having to flip back and forth between Chapters and Subsections, it gets very confusing and overwhelming. As for the project itself, we believe that prior to starting any project, you may want to consider whether you want to change the Building Use in the future and perhaps you may want to make it compliance for a more rigid Group Type, and it can save you time and money, like Midland Medical Centre, they thought ahead of time and the original construction covered a lot of details for a Rigid Group Type. It is great to work as a group, specially if you get along it makes it easier to work and there is no pressure on anyone, whoever get to a section first it makes the Team move forward. We enjoyed working together as a Team. Kind regards, Zeynep Yilmaz 101319143 Ahmet Tunc 10124966 Carmen Cruz Valencia 100268465
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