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<br />. " <br /> <br /> <br />GROUP,INC. . . <br />.. .an integrated deslgnlbulldfirm <br /> <br />October 8, 2004 <br /> <br />City of La Porte Fire Review Board <br />604 Fairmont Parkway <br />La Porte, Texas 77571 <br /> <br />RE: First United Methodist Church of La Porte <br />New Family Life Center <br /> <br />Dear Fire Review Board: <br /> <br />The S.L.I. Group, Inc. met with City of La Porte officials on February 4,2004, to review the <br />preliminary site and floor plans for a new Family Life Center for the First United Methodist <br />Church of La Porte. City of La Porte officials present that day included Debbie Wilmore, Chief <br />Building Official, Nicholas Finan, Interim Planning Director, Robert Cummings, Supervising <br />Engineer and Masood Malik, Planning Coordinator. The Fire Marshal, Laurie Christiansen, was <br />not able to attend. Debbie Wilmore agreed to forward the proposed plans to Laurie Christiansen <br />and get back with SLI to verify fire sprinkler requirements. \11 <br /> <br />The Family Life Center is to be an 11,010 s.f. building with a total occupancy load ofless than <br />300 persons. SLI determined according to the Standard Building Code 1994 and the Life Safety <br />Code 1997 that a fire sprinkler system was not required for this size building with an occupancy <br />load of less than 300 persons. <br /> <br />Standard BuildiDl! Code 1994: <br /> <br />Table 500 - Allowable Heights and Building Areas <br /> <br />a ) 1,.-'( <br />A-2 Small Assembly :;. -:) e..~ J ~. "'( '1. f L <br />Type VI One-Hour <br />Maximum building area: 7,500 sq. ft. <br />Exception: 503.4.4 <br />See attached - "construction may be increased 50% over the un-sprinklered areas <br />specified in Table 500" <br />Maximum building area: 11,250 sq. ft. <br /> <br />Between February 11th and February 20th SLI exchanged e-mails with Mark Huber, City of La <br />Porte Building Official. In the final correspondence (see attached) Mark said" My review of <br />this issue with the fire marshall resulted with her strongly recommending (but not required) that <br />you install a fire sprinkler and or monitored alarm system." At that time the final budget for the <br />project was put together by the Church administration based on SLI's research of the Fire Code <br />requirements and Mark Huber's letter. The budget was then presented to and approved by the <br />