that project when compared to the facilities necessary to occupy, operate & maintain the building per code. The building doesn't know the difference...but the people that were to occupy the interior would. And there would NEVER be something as simple as just "getting signatures" involved. If you think that those planned hotel rooms could easily be switched over for permanent occupancy, you're wrong. There are different requirements -- some more stringent, some less stringent -- for permanent versus "transient" occupancy. And how many of those hotel rooms-converted-to apartments do you think would be occupied considering most would only be single / studio apartments with no kitchen facilities in each apartment? Not many, I would guess.
Steve Bedo
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