Ya, that's what i've done in the past. It's frustrating when older supposedly "more experienced" engineers beat me over the head for being "too conservative" for compensating for this particular situation. I explain the it to them, but they don't seem to understand; and don't seem to want to...
When the IBC changed the load combinations that have reduced dead load (0.9DL to 0.6DL +WL or EQ) they also changed the foundation stability factor proportionally from 1.5 to 1.0. This seems to assume that these particular load combinations always govern when it comes to foundation stability...
