The residential requirements fall under R3 as "Congregate living facilities (nontransient) with 16 or fewer occupants," which means the occupants (a person, family, group, or organization that lives in, occupies, or has quarters or space in or on something) share kitchen and bathing spaces and are there for more than 30 days. As parents coming for parents' weekend do not fit under the definition of occupant (the code does not define occupant, so the previously used definition requiring living in the space will be used), the space is perfectly within the limits of the code to have only one means of egress.
You should call up the local code official to make it official if this is right. I'm guessing it might help a bunch of people, me included.
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