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ORDINANCE NO. MC-551
2 ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO AMENDING SECTION
18.40.160 SUBSECTION C OF THE SAN BERNARDINO MUNICIPAL CODE
3 REGARDING EXEMPTION FROM THE TWO STANDARD ACCESS ROUTE
REQUIREMENT FOR SUBDIVISIONS WITHIN THE HIGH FIRE HAZARD AREA,
4 PROCEDURES FOR EXEMPTION INVESTIGATION AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS
THEREFOR, REPEALING SUBSECTION E OF SECTION 18.40.160, AND
5 DECLARING THE URGENCY THEREOF.
6 THE MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO
DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
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SECTION 1. Section 18.40.160 Subsection C of the San
9 Bernardino Municipal Code is amended by adding paragraphs 3 and 4
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"3. Property within the high fire hazard area. Where the
12 subject property is located within the high fire hazard area, the
13 Mayor and Common Council, upon recommendation of the Planning
14 Commission, may approve a tentative map, final map, tentative
15 parcel map, or parcel map, with one standard and one non-standard
16 access route where it is found that with respect to the non-
17 standard access route:
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a. The public health, safety and welfare do not
19 require that the secondary access be a standard route;
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B. That such route shall be designed and maintained
21 to support the imposed load of fire apparatus and shall have a
22 surface sufficient to provide all-weather driving capabilities;
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c. That such route is at least two lanes in width to
24 accommodate emergency vehicles;
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d. A city-approved traffic analysis has been
26 completed which documents that a second standard access is not
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1 4. General conditions for a non-standard access route.
2 a. Investigation and Planning Commission
3 recommendation. The Fire Chief shall conduct an investiga-
4 tion and make a recommendation to the Planning Commission as to
5 whether any non-standard secondary access shall be paved. The
6 Planning Commission shall make its recommendation based thereon
7 to the Mayor and Common Council which shall make the final
8 determination as to whether the non-standard access route shall
9 be paved.
10 b. Requirement of dedication and perpetual
11 maintenance. Any non-standard access route shall be over a
12 dedicated right-of-way or irrevocable easement; such route may be
13 over an easement granted to any public entity when such easement
14 permits provision for the perpetual maintenance of the access
15 routes in the manner approved by the City at the time of its
16 approval of the final map, tentative parcel map, or parcel map.
17 c. Improvement of access route upon further
18 development. At such time as further development occurs which
19 would provide an access route to a subdivision over a route
20 previously approved by the Mayor and Common Council pursuant to
21 the provisions of this section, that route shall be dedicated and
22 fully improved to a standard width for a street of its type, with
23 curbs, gutters, sidewalks and such other street improvements as
24 may be required under this code or any other ordinances or
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26 SECTION 2. Section la.40.160 Subsection E of the San
27 Bernardino Municipal Code is hereby repealed.
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SECTION 3. The ordinance is an urgency measure which shall
take effect and become operative upon its adoption and approval.
The facts constituting such urgency are that there has been an
increase in building activity in the foothill areas. Fire hazard
is greatest in the foothill areas. This ordinance is necessary
to ensure proper design prior to subdivision approval for the
protection of future residents from fire hazard and flood hazard.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was duly
adopted by the Mayor and Common Council of the City of San
Bernardino at a
regular
meeting thereof, held on
the 20th
October
day of
, 1986, by the
following vote, to wit:
AYES:
Council Members Reilly, Marks, Quiel, Frazier,
Strickler
NAYS:
None
ABSENT:
Council Members Estrada, Hernandez
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The foregoing ordinance is hereby approved this
22nd day
of
October
, 1986.
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Mayor of/the City of San ernardino
Approved as to form:
City Attorney