The emergency exit door, for pedestrians, to the pool deck on the 31st floor, has an emergency manual override! Emergency manual overrides are needed at the exit and entrance to each of our vehicular gated parking access points. True, our high rise has stairways for exiting in cases of emergencies, and most everyone knows to not use the elevators. However, sometimes stairways may not be usable or reachable-remember 9/11 and the Twin Towers in New York City! If the stairways are not useable, ALL fleeing to safety down to the entrance or exit would be trapped inside the gates of gated parking (As there are no pedestrian gates with emergency manual overrides at either exit or entrance these two sites are another form of a death chamber and crematory)! In addition, there is a walk of at least 300' from inside the entrance gate (where several vehicles regularly park) in gated parking up to the nearest stairway! There is also a journey of about 90' from inside the exit gate to the nearest stairway. A gate with an emergency manual override from within gated areas at the exit and entrance of gated parking would have life-saving benefits if/when tragedies strike which would make the stairway unusable and/or inaccessible. Without pedestrian gates with emergency manual overrides, there is little or no question one may be speaking of potentially extraordinary tragedies! Can you guess the interest of Metro Building Codes and the Metro Fire Department in safety concerns for the Viridian's gated parking area? Why do our Viridian Boards, just like the HOA at the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida, know of potential, deadly death chambers and potential crematoriums, but continue to promote and protect these death chambers and refuse to correct them? Please email: ViridianBoard@gmail.com with your concerns. See also: www.fatalattraction.co , and/or ,www.gatetoheaven.co , and/or www.countryboy.co
Safety at the Viridian: I am hoping to get a few “safety” codes to be enforced,and monitored by the Metro Health Department (Pools), and Metro Building Codes to insure surroundings that are “safe” for the roof top pool deck at the Viridian. This snapshot was taken by a drone camera of the roof top pool deck at the Viridian in downtown Nashville, TN. Please notice, as you look at this snapshot, the 14’ perimeter wall section that is totally open with no safety barrier for a 225' drop-off or 350’ drop-off and the two inside 14' walls that form the stairs with a 10' drop-off. An object in free fall for 350' would be traveling at 85 - 95 mph on impact! Metro Codes follows these International building codes: International Building Code 2000; Code 1003.2.12 Guards: "Guards shall be located along open-sided walking surfaces, mezzanines, industrial equipment platforms, stairways, ramps and landings which are located more than 30 inches above the floor or grade below." And Code 1003.2.12.1 Height: "Guards shall form a protective barrier not less than 42 inches high, measured vertically above the leading edge of the tread, adjacent walking surface or adjacent seatboard." If this were an active construction site, is there any doubt there would be adequate and securely fastened safety barriers for these three 14’ walls that are now totally open? Should Metro Codes and Metro Health have permitted this roof top pool without proper safety codes? Can you guess the interest of Metro Health (pools) and Metro Building Codes, regarding this safety concern for the Viridian condos? This site has an EXIT sign directing people to steps going down for an emergency exit, and/or to steps, plus a walking surface, accessible to nearly any 4 year old, leading up to the 5 open sided walking surfaces with no fencing! Did the contractor complete this site, or simply abandon the idea of a kite surfing platform? In the Spring of 2019, one of the department heads of Metro Building codes was in a circuit court hearing regarding these safety concerns, with Judge Escobar presiding, and was quizzed about these unguarded walking surfaces. When quizzed about the lack of fencing or guardrails on these 5 open sided walking surfaces at the Southern Border, his response was "I don't teach human behavior!" He made an identical response to me in his office, a week or two later, when I specifically pointed out to him the lack of fencing on these 5 open sided walking surfaces with DEADLY drop-offs! Is the Metro Building Code's response a profound, inept, inadequate, unbelievable, and TOTALLY unsatisfactory response? In like manner, a representative from Metro Pools said that the fences around pools are only designed and installed to keep children, and others, out of the pool area. WOW! Should Metro have permitted this pool, and pool deck, deck with these SAFETY concerns? Although I was not elected to the Viridian Board in May of 2021, I intend to advance this safety concern by promoting the agenda of getting adequate guardrails and fencing installed at the Southern Border of the rooftop pool deck! In like manner, will you support this effort by contacting the Board? Why do our Viridian Boards, just like the HOA at the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida, know of potential, deadly death traps, but continue to promote and protect these death traps and refuse to correct them? Please email: ViridianBoard@gmail.com with your concerns. See also: www.fatalattraction.co , and/or www.gatetoheaven.co , and/or www.countryboy.co Lives are at steak! ViridianBoard@gmail.com
Replace the inside lock of this pedestrian gate, at the exit from gated parking on the left, with an emergency manual override for exiting in cases of emergencies. Can you guess the interest, of Metro Building Codes, in safety concerns for gated parking? Is this photo, in the foreground, is one of Johnny Cash's "Ghost Riders in the Sky" at the exit gate, ready to take our names, in case: (1) we become incinerated victims in this crematory during a nuclear winter, or other catastrophic event, when no electrical gadgets work, and/or (2) in a disaster, when the stairwell is an inferno, and there is no manual override to get out of gated parking? Again, if rats are in the gated parking area, in an emergency, they can get out alive! Give us all, at the least, the same chance as rats by installing pedestrian gates with emergency manual overrides at both the vehicular entrance and exit to gated parking! The small pedestrian gate at the exit near the loading dock has a manual override that opens without needing keys. See this gate on the right with an emergency manual override. Have we forgotten 9/11 of 2001, in New York City and the twin towers with thousands of casualties? WOW, what about pedestrian gates with emergency manual overrides at the entrance and exit to gated parking? Is our gated parking another chamber of death, a ready made crematorium?
This pedestrian exit/entrance at the loading dock at the Viridian has an emergency manual override for exiting in cases of emergencies! Can you guess the interest, of Metro Building Codes and the Viridian Boards, in safety concerns for gated pedestrian exits with manual emergency overrides for these types of exits?
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It is about 300' from this entrance of gated parking to the nearest stairwell. In case of an emergency, a pedestrian access gate, located to the far right, with a manual override, would give the possibility of safely exiting gated parking! This gate seems to have 2 purposes: (1) It keeps out unregistered vehicles, and (2) It keeps pedestrians from escaping this area in cases of emergencies! (The gate remains open for several seconds when a vehicle passes through so anyone can walk in or out!). Does anyone know how to open the gate in an emergency?
I am campaigning for our residential high rise, the Viridian, to protect our concierges from drive by shootings by installing bullet proof glass at the front entrance!