Collective dwelling

Status: This standard was approved as a departmental standard on September 24, 2021.

Definition

Collective dwelling refers to a dwelling of a commercial, institutional, or communal nature in which a person or group of persons reside or could reside. It must provide care or services or have certain common facilities, such as a kitchen or bathroom, which are shared by the occupants. Examples include lodging or rooming houses, hotels, motels, tourist establishments, nursing homes, residences for senior citizens, hospitals, staff residences, military bases, work camps, correctional facilities and group homes.

Relation to previous version

• Collective dwelling September 24, 2021 to current

  This is the current standard.

• Collective dwelling March 20, 2017 to September 23, 2021

  This was the recommended standard from March 20, 2017 to September 23, 2021.