- Applies to
- any
- Work types
- laneway suite
- Document date
- September 8, 2020
- Building types
- residential
The report to the Planning and Housing Committee from the Chief Building Official and Executive Director, Toronto Building, published with the City's guidance on fire department access to a new laneway suite. It traces the access options developed since laneway suites were permitted city-wide — a side yard path, a path shared under a limiting distance agreement, the public lane — then a 2019 Building Code Commission decision on a 73-metre travel distance, two mitigating options taking that distance to 90 metres, and a path width moving to 0.9 metres.
What it covers
- Summary
- Recommendations
- Financial Impact
- Decision History
- Comments
- Laneway Suite Design: Meeting Fire Access Requirements
- Toronto Fire Services Requirements: Clear Path of Travel
- Meeting Emergency Access Requirements
- Sharing the Path of Travel for Fire Access
- Alternative Solutions
- Building Code Commission Decision
- Recommended Compliance Alternatives
- Amending Requirement for an Unobstructed 1.0 metre Path of Travel
- Amendments to the Ontario Building Code
- Impact of the Generic Alternative Solution on Laneway Suites Construction
- Conclusion and Next Steps
- Contact
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- Publisher
- City of Toronto — Toronto Building
- Category
- Checklists
- Published under
- Providing Fire Department Access To A New Laneway Suite — the municipality's own heading
- Alias
- PH16.10 'Laneway Suites: Fire Access Requirements'
- Agencies
- Toronto Building · Toronto Fire Services · City Planning · Planning and Housing Committee
- Instruments
- Ontario Building Code · Ontario Building Code Act
- Signatories
- Chief Building Official & Executive Director, Toronto Building
- Tags
staff-reportlaneway-suitefire-accessalternative-solutiontoronto-fire-services