Chapter 5 — GENERAL BUILDING HEIGHTS AND AREAS — 2025 California Building Code (Title 24, Part 2)

User notes: About this chapter: Chapter 5 establishes the limits to which a building can be built. Building height, number of stories and building area are specified in this chapter. Chapter 5 must be used in conjunction with the occupancies established in Chapter 3 and the types of construction established in Chapter 6. This chapter also specifies the impact that mezzanines, accessory occupancies and mixed occupancies have on the overall size of a building. ICC code development note: Code change proposals to sections preceded by the designation [F] or [BE] will be considered by a code…

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