
{"id":3664,"date":"2008-10-16T08:18:34","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T16:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=3664"},"modified":"2008-10-16T08:52:18","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T16:52:18","slug":"sprinkler-code-complicates-move-follies-owner-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/10\/16\/sprinkler-code-complicates-move-follies-owner-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Sprinkler code complicates move, Follies owner says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/furniturepic.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/furniturepic-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Photo courtesy Furniture Follies. Furniture Follies, which sells used furniture, can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t bring customers inside the showroom because of a law mandating sprinklers that it can not afford. They sell furniture in the parking lot on weekends.\" title=\"furniturepic\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" align=\"left\" size-medium wp-image-3675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/furniturepic-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/furniturepic.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><strong>Susan Dickson<\/strong><em><br \/>\nStaff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Furniture Follies owner Ridge Cook appealed to the Carrboro Board of Aldermen on Tuesday for a change to the town fire code, which has prevented him from moving his business into its new location in Carrboro.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe board said they would refer Cook\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s request to staff and look at town and state fire codes to determine their options.<\/p>\n<p>About a year ago, Furniture Follies, a used-furniture and antique store, moved from its previous location west of Carrboro to the old Cleora Sterling building on Hwy. 54, two miles west of Carrboro Plaza. <\/p>\n<p>However, in order to open his business there the building needed a sprinkler system. The town ordinance requires sprinkler systems in non-residential businesses larger than 6,000 square feet. <\/p>\n<p>Cook and his landlord, former Chapel Hill Town Council member Cam Hill, looked into installing a sprinkler system, but discovered the building lacked the water pressure to support one, increasing installation costs from about $100,000 to $300,000. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153That turned out not to be economically feasible,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Cook said. <\/p>\n<p>In order to stay open, Furniture Follies has been holding yard sales outside of the building, he said. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The landlord has foregone the rent for almost a year and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve forgone most of our income for that period of time,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Cook said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153At this time, the landlord has indicated that he has no choice but to seek a different tenant for that building, and that means Furniture Follies will most likely leave Carrboro.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like for our business to be able to stay in Carrboro.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>The board said they would like to see whether they could revise the ordinance so that Furniture Follies could remain in Carrboro. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think Furniture Follies is a really great local business, and to my way of thinking it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very much part of our vision as a town to support local economy and to support businesses who support recycling and reuse and that kind of thing,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mayor Mark Chilton said. <\/p>\n<p>Board member Dan Coleman said he would like to look at ways to change the ordinance for certain businesses without changing it for other businesses, such as restaurants. <\/p>\n<p>However, Town Attorney Michael Brough said a change to the town ordinance may or may not make a difference for Furniture Follies, because of state building codes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}