Unprotected opening calculation

Apparently city inspection is still hung up on the unprotected opening calculation on my south wall. Apparently they think I have too much window on the south wall. And they don’t bother to let us know how they calculated that. After doing calculation over and over. We came to a conclusion that they have projected my 3rd floor to the south wall. Now my 3rd floor is more than 13′ or 4m away from the property line. And based on that, I can have 96% of unprotected opening. However, the rest of the building is only 5′ or 1.5m away from the property line and so I am only allowed 8% unprotected openings. However if you put them together, then yes I exceeded the 8% of the wall area. However does it even make any sense? If there is a fire, then flame coming out of the 3rd floor window will be more than 4m away from the property line and so it should be treated as such. The flame coming out of my lower levels should be treated as 1.5m away from the property line. Why should someone project a wall that’s really far away onto the wall that’s really close for a single calculation? Anyway I hope we can get this through properly. My the 3rd floor being filled with glasses is very deliberate and it is integral part of my design that goes together with my roof terrace and garden.

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