PURPOSE

1. To allow additional flexibility within building envelopes.
2. To enable additional partial floors to encourage tall stories.

APPLICABILITY

1. Applies to new buildings or existing buildings that include a mezzanine.

GENERAL

1. Mezzanines do not count as a story and must fit within the permitted floor height of a story.
2. From the exterior of the building, mezzanines should appear like part of the story they are associated with. A mezzanine may not appear like a separate building story from the outside.
3. Windows must be large enough to span both the main and mezzanine levels of the building story.
4. Publicly accessible mezzanines may be provided with the following standards:
   1. A building story must be at least 18 ft in height to accommodate a public mezzanine.
   2. A public mezzanine must have a ceiling height of at least 8 ft measured from the finished floor of the mezzanine to the surface of the finished ceiling or underside of the structural members of an unfinished ceiling.
   3. The area of a public mezzanine may be no greater than 50% the area of the main floor beneath it.
5. Utility or mechanical mezzanines, intended only for access by repair personnel, may be provided within a full building story with the following standards:
   1. A building story must be at least 15 ft in height to accommodate a mechanical mezzanine.
   2. Mechanical mezzanines may be designed as a crawlspace, and have a minimum ceiling height of 4 ft.
   3. Mechanical mezzanines may be no greater than 75% the area of the main floor beneath them.