Dealing with difficult building permit official in Oakland, CA

[Sanjay Gupta]

Hi,

We have property which was used as child day care , earlier it was SFR and now we are converting back to SFR

Building official says It has to follow new constructions guidelines which requires to install fire sprinkler. Planning and Zoning said it was given conditional use permit which was already expired so no issues in converting to SFR but building again said that our codes are different and if property is changing different occupancy group so it must follow new construction guidelines. Due to new construction guideline, he has asked us to lot of unnecessary reports like survery, soil report, fire sprinkler plan which costs lots of our time and money but was provided to get us permit.

He is saying this is change in function and it requires new construction code. 

Any idea on how to deal with this issue ?