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(a) Subsection 902.2.1 of the Uniform Fire Code is amended to read as follows: (a) Required construction. Every building or portions of buildings hereafter constructed shall have fire apparatus access roadways. Such access roadways shall provide two (2) separate but interconnected means of ingress and egress. Access shall be at least twenty (20) feet in clear width. A forty-foot outside and twenty-foot inside radius shall be provided wherever they make a turn. The total width shall be continuously paved to accommodate sixty thousand (60,000) pounds and shall not exceed the angle of departure (eight (8) degrees or fourteen (14) percent) for fire apparatus on any slope. Access roadways shall have a vertical clearance of not less than thirteen (13) feet six (6) inches above the finished driveway surface. EXCEPTIONS: 1. When buildings are completely protected with an approved automatic fire sprinkler system, the provisions of this section may be modified. When access roadways cannot be installed due to topography, waterways, nonnegotiable grades or other similar conditions, the chief may require additional fire protection as specified in Section 1001.9. When there are not more than two (2) Group R, Division 3 or Group U Occupancies, the requirements of this section may be modified, provided, in the opinion of the chief, firefighting or rescue operations would not be impaired. (b) Extent. The access roadway shall be extended to within one hundred fifty (150) feet of all portions of the exterior walls of the first story of any building. Where the access roadway cannot be provided, approved fire protection system or systems shall be provided as required and approved by the fire marshal. (c) Fire protection alternate. Where fire protection systems approved by the fire marshal are provided, the above required clearance may be modified. (d) Oversizing. The fire marshal shall have the authority to require an increase in the minimum access width where such width is not adequate for fire or rescue operations. (e) Bridges. Where a bridge is required to be used as access under this section, it shall be constructed and maintained in accordance with the applicable sections of the building code and using design live loading sufficient to carry the imposed loads of the fire apparatus. (b) Subsection 902.2.2 of the Uniform Fire Code is deleted. (c) Subsection 902.2.4.1 of the Uniform Fire Code is amended to read as follows: Ordinance No. NS-2522 Page 38 of 47