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SECTION 56: That section 14-24 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby <br />amended such that it reads as follows (new language underlined, deleted language in <br />strikeout for tracking purposes only): <br />Sec. 14-25. Access roadways for apparatus (Section 503980. <br />(a) Subsection 503.1.1 °~ of the Californiak~i#e~ Fire Code is amended to <br />read as follows: <br />(a) Required construction. Every building or portions of buildings hereafter <br />constructed shall have fire apparatus access roadways. Such access <br />roadways shall provide two (2) separate but interconnected means of <br />ingress and egress. Access shall be at least twenty (20) feet in clear <br />width. Aforty-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 />EXCEPTIONS: <br />When buildings are completely protected with an approved <br />automatic fire sprinkler system, the provisions of this section <br />may be modified. <br />2. When access roadways cannot be installed due to <br />topography, waterways, nonnegotiable grades or other <br />similar conditions, the chief may require additional fire <br />protection as specified in Section 901.4.34$8-:8. <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 <br />be modified, provided, in the opinion of the chief, firefighting <br />or rescue operations would not be impaired. <br />(b) Extent. The access roadway shall be extended to within one hundred fifty <br />(150) feet of all portions of the exterior walls of the first story of any <br />building. Where the access roadway cannot be provided, approved fire <br />protection system or systems shall be provided as required and approved <br />by the fire marshal. <br />(c) Fire protection alternate. Where fire protection systems approved by the <br />Ordinance No. NS-XXXX <br />Page 34 of 48 <br />75C-42 <br />