- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- 1: Getting Ready
- 2: The Costs of Space
- 3: Understanding Credit
- 4: Professional Services
- 5: Finding Space
- 6: Residential Leases
- 7: Commercial and Industrial Leases
- 8: Buying Real Estate
- 9: Types of Mortgages
- 10: The Mortgage Application
- 11: Ownership Models
- 12: Purchasing Alternatives
- 13: Chicago Zoning Ordinance
- 14: Chicago Building Code
- 15: Chicago's Neighborhoods
- 16: Property Taxes
- 17: When You Find a Property
- 18: Inspections
- 19: After Moving In
- 20: Insurance
- 21: Utilities
- 22: Rehabbing Your Space
- 23: Safe and Healthy Spaces
- 24: Green Practice
- 25: When Disputes Arise
- 26: Space Emergencies
- 27: Facility Development Planning
- Bibliography
Water Access
For residential and live/work spaces, water access requirements typically include one toilet, one sink, one shower/bath tub, one kitchen sink and one clothes washer. One washing machine satisfies the Code requirements for several apartments or dwelling units.
For businesses and spaces open to the public, the requirements become more complicated, and might need an architect's interpretation. Section 13-168 of the CBC outlines the basic water fixture requirements for a variety of spaces.
Additional information on water access issues include:-
Section 13-196-350: Residential Buildings - Water Closet
Every family unit except as provided in Section 13-196-380 shall contain within its walls a room, separate from the habitable rooms, which affords privacy to a person and is equipped with a flush water closet.
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Section 13-196-360: Residential Buildings - Lavatory
Every family unit except as provided in Section 13-196-380 shall contain within its walls a lavatory basin located in the same room as the required water closet, or as near to that room as practicable.
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Section 13-196-370: Residential Buildings - Bathtub or Shower
Every family unit except as provided in Section 13-196-380 shall contain within its walls a room, separate from the habitable rooms, which affords privacy to a person in the room and which is equipped with a bathtub or shower.
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Section 13-196-380: Residential Buildings - Limitations on Sharing Sanitary Facilities.
The occupants of not more than two-family units which are located in the same dwelling may share a single flush water closet, a single lavatory basin, a single bathtub or shower if:
a) The facilities to be shared are within a room or rooms on the same floor as the family units and are accessible to the occupants of each family unit without going through the family unit of another person or outside the dwelling; and
b) Neither of the two-family units contains more than two habitable rooms nor more than 500 square feet of floor area, excluding of the number of rooms and from floor area any kitchen of less than 70 square feet of the floor area.
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Section13-196-390: Residential buildings - Kitchen Sink
Every family unit shall contain within its walls a kitchen sink.