15.80.100 Standards – Common use room.
A. New Construction – Mandatory to Install. There are no mandatory installations related to a common use room in a visitable residential dwelling.
B. New Construction – Mandatory to Offer. The following options for the common use room on the primary entry level shall be offered and, if accepted, installed at the request and cost of the purchaser/owner, if requested when installation is consistent with SMC 15.80.140:
1. At least one common use room such as a dining room or living room on the accessible route. Sunken or raised areas not exceeding 50 percent of the area of the room’s floor space shall be permitted as an option of the purchaser/owner in a common use room on the accessible route when an accessible route connects a usable portion of the common use room to the accessible bathroom or powder room and the accessible exterior entrance door.
2. No sunken areas in a common use room on an accessible route.
3. Standards related to access to and flatness of any other common area room on the primary entry level.
C. Substantial Rehabilitation. For any substantial rehabilitation of a common use room on the primary entry level there are no requirements either to install or offer any installations or components.