Garage or Accessory Building Serving Only One Dwelling Unit

 Garage or Accessory Building Serving Only One Dwelling Unit

The rationale for increasing the fire protection level for the exposing walls of detached #garages and #accessory buildings relative to their proximity to the property line is the same as described for other #buildings. However, a lower level of fire protection is permitted for these garages, depending on their proximity to a single dwelling unit on the same #property. This is rationalized on the basis of cost, as well as experience.

Such structures are also generally very small, and their incidence of fires in relation to other building fires is low. There is insufficient risk, therefore, to spatially separate a #house from its garage or #carport.

#fireprotection #detachedgarage #propertyline 

Quoted from Illustrated Users' Guide - NBC2015