The following standards apply to both residential condominium projects and residential condominium conversion projects.
(A) Off-street parking. Each unit must be provided with a two-car garage or carport or with two adjoining single-car garages or carports. One parking space per four units, which may be covered or uncovered, must be provided for guest parking.
(B) Private storage. Each unit must have at least 90 cubic feet of enclosed weatherproofed and lockable private storage space in addition to guest, linen, pantry and clothes closets customarily provided. Such space may be provided in any location approved by the city but cannot be divided into two or more locations.
(C) Laundry facilities. A laundry area must be provided in each unit for new condominiums. For condominium conversion projects, laundry facilities may be provided in each unit or a common laundry area. If common laundry areas are provided, such facilities must consist of not less than one automatic washer and dryer for each five units or fraction thereof. A house panel and separate meters for gas and water must serve common laundry areas.
(D) Drip pans. Clothes washers, dish-washers, hot water heaters and any other appliance which the Building Official determines to be a potential source of water leakage or flooding must be installed with built-in drip pans and appropriate drains subject to the approval of the Building Official.
(E) Utility meters. Each utility that is controlled by and consumed within the individual unit must be separately metered in such a way that the unit owner can be separately billed for its use. In the case of water, master meters for the project may be permitted, with the exception of water sprinklers, in certain projects in which the Planning Commission or the City Council finds that there will be a substantially uniform use of water by individual owners, provided each unit is individually plumbed and each is provided with an accessible location for future installation of a submeter.
(F) Circuit breakers. Each unit must have its own circuit breaker panel for all electrical circuits and outlets, which serve the unit. Circuit breaker panels must be accessible to occupants.
(G) Isolation of vibration and structure-borne noise. Isolation of vibration and sources of structure-borne noise in condominium projects where units have common walls, floors or ceilings must comply with the following:
(1) Shock mounting of mechanical equipment. All permanent mechanical equipment such as motors, compressors, pumps and compactors which, because of their rotation, reciprocation, expansion and/or contraction, turbulence, oscillation, pulsation, impaction or detonation, is determined by the Building Official to be a source of structural vibration or structure-borne noise must be shock-mounted with inertia blocks or bases and/or vibration isolators in a manner approved by the Building Official. Domestic appliances which are cabinet installed or built into the individual units, such as clothes washers and dryers, or other appliances which are determined by the Building Official to be a source of structural vibration or structure-borne noise, must be isolated from cabinets and the floor or ceiling by resilient gaskets and vibration mounts approved by the Building Official. The cabinets in which they are installed should be offset from the back wall with strip gasketing of felt, cork or similar material approved by the Building Official. Where such appliances utilize water, flexible connectors must be installed on all water lines. If the units can accommodate nonpermanent appliances such as clothes washers and dryers, then permanent rubber mounting bases and surface plates must be installed in a manner approved by the Building Official.
(2) Location of plumbing fixtures. No plumbing fixture may be located on a common wall between two separate units where it would back up to a living room, family room, dining room, den or bedroom of an adjoining unit. For residential condominium conversion projects, where determined practicable by the Building Official, plumbing fixtures must be located on interior walls within the unit or on exterior walls of the project.
(3) Isolation and insulation of lines. All water supply lines within the project must be isolated from wood or metal framing with pipe isolators specifically manufactured for that purpose and approved by the Building Official. In multi-story condominium projects, all vertical drainage pipes must be surrounded by three-quarter-inch thick dense insulation board or full thick fiberglass or wool blanket insulation for its entire length including the sections that pass through wood or metal framing. All vertical drainage pipes must be cast iron.
(4) Drain waste and vents. All drain waste and vents must be separate, and connected only outside of the building.
(Ord. 1169, passed 2-5-07)