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ORDINANCE NO. MC-508
2 ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO AMENDING SECTION
18.40.160 OF THE SAN BERNARDINO MUNICIPAL CODE TO PERMIT THE FIRE
3 CHIEF TO EXEMPT THE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS FOR SECONDARY ACCESS.
4 THE MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO DO
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
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6 SECTION 1. Section 18.40.160 of the San Bernardino Municipal
7 Code is amended to read:
8 "18.40.160 provision for ingress and egress.
9 A. Definitions.
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1. For purposes of this section, a 'standard access or
11 route' is a route which is dedicated to the public, has a minimum
12 paved width of twenty-four feet, and conforms to all requirements
13 for construction contained in this chapter.
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2. For purposes of this section, a 'nonstandard access
15 or route' is a route which is not constructed in full conformance
16 with the requirements for a standard route set forth in paragraph
17 1 above.
18 B. Requirement. A tentative map, final map, tentative
19 parcel map, or parcel map shall provide for at least two different
20 standard routes for ingress and egress. The purpose of these
21 routes is to permit accessibility of fire fighting and other
22 public equipment and to permit orderly evacuation in the event of
23 flood, fire or other emergency. Prior to recordation of the final
24 ap, adequate security shall be provided to ensure construction of
25 the required improvements before any certificate of occupancy is
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27 C. Exemption from requirements. Upon a specific finding
28 hat the public health, safety, and welfare in the event of flood,
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1 fire or other emergency do not require both of such routes, under
2 the circumstances of that particular application, the Fire Chief
3 may approve any such map with only one standard access under the
4 following circumstances:
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1. The property is outside the high fire hazard area;
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2. Based on appropriate traffic analysis, secondary
8 access is not required for traffic circulation purposes; or
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3. An existing street provides only one standard route
10 for ingress and egress, not more than two thousand feet of street
11 extension is required, and the parcel map creates not more than
12 two residential lots, one of which the applicant represents will
13 be occupied as his or her primary place of residence;
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4. Where property is inside the high fire hazard area,
15 the Fire Chief may approve such map with one standard access and
16 one nonstandard access where he finds that the nonstandard access
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is traversible by firefighting and other
18 emergency equipment;
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is adequate to accommodate the orderly evacuation
20 of all residences it is designed to serve;
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c. is not subject to dangerous flooding; and
d. where the nonstandard access is not dedicated to
23 the City, that an easement has been granted by another
24 overnmental agency for ingress and egress; or
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e. where the nonstandard route is not dedicated to
26 the City, that there is an approved plan for use and maintenance
27 f the nonstandard route until such time as it is upgraded to a
28 tandard route, or an alternate standard route is provided; and
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f. that based on appropriate traffic analysis,
2 secondary access is not required for traffic circulation
3 purposes.
4 D. Procedures for exemption.
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1. The Fire Chief may prescribe the form and content
6 of applications for an exemption from the development standards
7 for secondary access. As a part of the application process, the
8 Fire Chief may request comments from any City, County or state
9 agencies which he deems appropriate.
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2. The Fire Chief may mail notice of the application
11 for exemption to all persons including businesses, corporations,
12 or other public or private entities shown on the latest equalized
13 assessment roll as owning real property within five hundred feet
14 of the SUbject property. Interested parties may submit written
15 comments to the Fire Chief by a date to be specified in the
16 notice.
17 E. Appeal.
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1. The decision of the Fire Chief may be appealed to
19 the Fire Commission. An application for appeal, stating the
20 grounds upon which it is based, shall be submitted to the City
21 Clerk within ten days of the date of the Fire Chief's decision.
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2. The decision of the Fire Commission shall be final
23 unless an appeal is taken to the Common Council in accordance
24 with the provis ions of Chapter 2.64. n
25 I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was duly
26 adopted by the Mayor and Common Council of the City of San
27 Bernardino at a
reqular
meeting thereof, held on
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MC-;-508
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7th day of
April
, 1986, by the
2 following vote, to wit:
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Council Members F:srri'lili'l. Rpilly. Marks, Ouiel,
Frazier, Strickler
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None
ABSENT:
Council Member Hernandez
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The foregoing
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ordinance is hereby approved this 8th
day
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