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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Reinstatement may occur when the alarm user has taken steps to <br /> eliminate or correct the problem(s) and has documented the corrective <br /> action in writing to the fire chief. <br /> SECTION 57: That section 14-25 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended <br /> such that it reads as follows: <br /> <br /> Sec. 14-25. Access roadways for apparatus (Section 503). <br /> <br /> (a) Subsection 503.1.1 of the California Fire Code is amended to read as <br /> follows: <br /> <br /> (a) Required construction. Every building or portions of buildings <br /> hereafter constructed shall have fire apparatus access roadways. Such <br /> access roadways shall provide two (2) separate but interconnected means <br /> of ingress and egress. Access shall be at least twenty (20) feet in clear <br /> width. A forty-foot outside and twenty-foot inside radius shall be provided <br /> wherever they make a turn. The total width shall be continuously paved to <br /> accommodate sixty thousand (60,000) pounds and shall not exceed the <br /> angle of departure (eight (8) degrees or fourteen (14) percent) for fire <br /> apparatus on any slope. Access roadways shall have a vertical clearance <br /> of not less than thirteen (13) feet six (6) inches above the finished <br /> driveway surface. <br /> <br /> EXCEPTIONS: <br /> <br /> 1. When buildings are completely protected with an approved <br /> automatic fire sprinkler system, the provisions of this section may <br /> be modified. <br /> <br /> 2. When access roadways cannot be installed due to <br /> topography, waterways, nonnegotiable grades or other similar <br /> conditions, the chief may require additional fire protection as <br /> specified in Section 901.4.3. <br /> <br /> 3. When there are not more than two (2) Group R, Division 3 or <br /> Group U Occupancies, the requirements of this section may be <br /> modified, provided, in the opinion of the chief, firefighting or rescue <br /> operations would not be impaired. <br /> <br /> 4. When access roadways cannot be installed in accordance to <br /> the ordinance due to in fill projects, and land or parcel constraints, <br /> the Chief may require enhanced fire protection by method of <br /> construction, compartmentalization and or fire separation <br /> construction. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Ordinance No. NS-XXXX <br /> 11 A-30 Page 30 of 43 <br />