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Title 17F
Chapter 17F.080
Section 17F.080.030
 

Title 17F Construction Standards

Chapter 17F.080 Fire Code

Section 17F.080.030 Appendices Adopted

The following appendices of the International Fire Code are adopted as part of the fire code of the City:

  1. Appendix B - Fire-Flow Requirements for Buildings.
  1. Appendix C – Fire Hydrant Locations and Distribution.
    1. Table C102.1 – Revise the column for ‘Maximum distance from any point on street or road frontage to a hydrant’ to be five hundred feet for each row.
    1. Table C102.1 – Footnote b is not adopted.
  1. Appendix D – Fire Apparatus Access Roads.

Provided, fire department access will be in conformance to Appendix D with the following exceptions:

    1. D103.3.

The minimum external turning radius will be fifty feet and minimum internal turning radius will be twenty-eight feet.

    1. Table D103.4.

The cul-de-sac diameter shall be one hundred feet.

    1. Figure D103.1.

The ninety-six feet diameter cul-de-sac is revised to one hundred feet diameter.

    1. D103.5.

Revise/Add the following:

      1. The minimum gate width shall be twenty feet unless reviewed and accepted by the fire official or designated representative (to be no less than fourteen feet).
      1. At least one gate off of public or private streets that is required for fire apparatus access onto a site shall be inset a minimum of 48’ from the edge of curb or curb line.
    1. D103.7.1.

Residential Driveways. Driveways used as fire lanes for single family and two-family dwellings can be reduced to an unobstructed width of twelve feet wide as long as there is a code compliant fifty foot radius turn-around or approved hammerhead within one hundred fifty feet of all points around the dwelling.

    1. D103.7.2.

Fire access roads can be designed in accordance with SMC 17H.010.140, Emergency Vehicle Access and Staging Areas, as an approved alternative with the approval of the fire official for residential access roads.

  1. Appendix E – Hazardous Categories.
  1. Appendix F – Hazard Ranking.
  1. Appendix G – Cryogenic Fluids – Weight and Volume Equivalents.
  1. Appendix H – Hazardous Materials Management Plan (HMMOP) and Hazardous Materials Inventory Statement (HMIS) Instructions.
  1. Appendix I – Fire Protection Systems – Noncompliant Conditions; and
  1. Appendix J – Building Information Sign.
  1. Appendix N – Indoor Trade Shows and Exhibitions

Date Passed: Monday, December 7, 2020

Effective Date: Thursday, January 7, 2021

ORD C35989 Section 2