New Britain herald., 1926-03-24
CAMP DISAPPROVES
 OF NAPLES HOUSE
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foor without entering the first floor apartment The rooms on the sec ond floor are identical with those below. but the rooms designated pantry, kitchen and dining room or ths trst floor are designated on the second floor respectively as closet bedroom and bedroom.
 When the application for per nit was preseited to your building inspector the department was in the midst ot revising the building code. The old building code contained no definition for a one-family house. The new proposed code contained the following definition;
 Sec, lsG. Number Of tenants. For the purpose Of this article the total number of entrance bells or gas meters or eelctric meters, or kitchen sinks, installed in any dwell ling shall be deemed satisfactory proof by the building inspector that the building is designated to be, or Is occupied by. that number of families or tenants.
 "At the time that tha permit was asked for 1t was thought that this new code would be very soon adopt ed. Under that rule the building inspector had no alternative but to grant the permit for the building, because so far as entrance bells, gas plGpfrig To, sinks go the house was arranged Tor one family and still remains so.
 However. it is discovered that Mir. Naples has violated his permit, iN that he has done off three rooms on the attic floor. In his permit tho third floor is only an attic. His architect says that this part of the plan vas left out by mistake. Mir. Naples has violated his permit without any intention of doing so, but. nevertheless, this brings the matter up again before the building commission for consideration.
 There is front and back stair way leading 10 the third floor. lt this building was occupied for two tenercn's there thirl-hoor rooms could he used partly in connection with the downstairs apartment and partly h connection with the up- stairs apartment without the occu- pants Of one apartment interfering with the occupants Of the other.
 These extra rooms give the house 13 rooms laid out so far as the ar. rangemcnts of the rooms go for two separate rents. which gives an addi. tional indication that the practical way 70 use the house would be fer two separate families.
 "Thero has been q delay In the final preparation of the building code and 1t has not yet been adopt ed.
 There is at present no defni- ton laid down in the ordinances or building code as to what constitutes 2. ono-falnily house.
 "The state tenement house act In defining tenements not only refers 10 the leasing and renting of a build ing as evidences for separate fami- lies, but also refers to the arrange ment for separate families.
 "Our Zoning code, which was passed shortly after this permit was granted, contains the follow ing:
 "'sec. s, Residence District Uses Cal No building, structure or premises In any residence "A dis trict shall be used, in any part, un- less as herein specified, for any other than the following purposes: One dwelling for not more than one family or one housekeeping unit etc,
 "Mr Naples house Is In Resi- dence A district.
 I've ate of the opinion that is Mr. Naples is in good faith build ing q one-family house, that the arrangement of the rooms ought 10 show It. It would be very easy 10 install a sink and gas outlet in the room on the second floor now des- ienated a bedroom, but arranged na Urally for kitchen and have practically complete layout for two family house. We think the ar engagement of the rooms should in absence Of any definition to the contrary enter into the question of what Is a one or more family house to some extent, so that the city should not be obliged to inspect premises every little while 10 sec whether a building has been changed In Its use. We thing that good faith on the part Of the builder also requires this.
 It is our opinion that the build ing commission should revoke the permit unless such changes are made in the interior arrangement as would comply, in the opinion of the commission, with a layout for a one-family house.
 "Very truly yours,
 Mortimer H. Camp,
 Assistant corporation
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