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Norwich Fire Chief, Alex Northern was also present for the discussion.
We had a very cold, but productive meeting with the Fire Marshal in February. Some nuggets of information we learned were:
- We can allow 49 people in the downstairs and 8 with a tour guide upstairs at this time.
- The current front porch stair design will be allowable.
- There will be two bathrooms, one of them with ADA access on the first floor.
- The Fire Marshal was very happy to be meeting with us before we began construction.
- We also had our architect, Doug Sonsalla of Studio Nexus, and Caitlin Corkins, from the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation with us.
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Front porch stair inspection with the Fire Marshal.