HomeMy WebLinkAbout38.121 ORDINANCE NO. 38. 121
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SARATOGA
AMENDING SECTIONS 3-8, 3-8.2, AND 3-8 OF
AETICLE H OF CHAPTER 3 OF THE SARATOGA
CITY CODE PERTAINING TO THE ADOPTION BY
EEFEEENCE OF THE UNIFORM BUILDING CODE
AND AMENDMENTS THEEETO
The City Council of the City of Saratoga does hereby ordain as follows:
SECTION 1: Section 3-8 of Article II of Chapter 3 of the Saratoga City
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
See. 3-8. Uniform Building Code -- Adopted.
The 1982 Edition of the Uniform Building Code
including Appendix Chapters 1, 7, ll, 12, 23, 32, 35, 38, 49, 51, "'
53, 55 and 57 only, as compiled and published by the
International Conference of Building Officials, three copies of
which Uniform Building Code have been filed for use and
examination by the public in the office of the City Clerk of this
city, is hereby referred to and, except as to additions, deletions
and amendments hereinafter noted, the same is hereby adopted
and made a part hereof, the same as if fully set forth in this
Article, and shall be the Building Code for this city.
SECTION 2: Section 3-8.2 of Article II of Chapter 3 of the
Saratoga City Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
See. 3-8.2 Same--Plans and Specificationsi Inspection7
Approval and Maintenance of Facilities.
The plans and specifications required by section
302(b) of the Building Code shall include a drainage plan
depicting thereon both existing and proposed grades, and all
proposed drainage facilities, unless such requirement is waived
by the building official. All grading and drainage facilities shall
be completed and installed prior to final inspection, and the
building official may require certification from the owner, the
contractor or a qualified engineer, that all finished grades are
in compliance with the approved plans. Neither approval of
such drainage plans nor approval of the completed facilities on
final inspection shall constitute any representation as to the
adequacy of soil or slope stability, nor the adequacy of surface
or sub-surface drainage controls, nor that any soil or water-
related damage will not occur to the site or to any adjoining
property. Maintenance of all on-site drainage facilities,
whether or not ultimately connected to a public storm drain,
shall be the sole responsibility of the property owner and not
the City.
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SECTION 3: Section 3-9 of Article II of Chapter 3 of the Saratoga City
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 3-9. Uniform Building Code -- Additions~ Deletions and
Amendments.
The following additions, deletions and amendments
are hereby made to the 1982 Uniform Building Code hereinabove
adopted by reference:
See. 3-9.1 Reserved.
Sec. 3-9.2. Reserved.
See. 3-9.3. Reserved.
Sec. 3-9.4. Reserved.
Sec. 3-9.5. Reserved,
Sec. 3-9.6. Reserved.
Sec. 3-9.7. Reserved.
Sec. 3-9.8. Section 1210 Amended. Section 1210 of the
Uniform Building Code, 1982 Edition, is hereby amended to read
as follows:
Section 1210(a)(1). Findings. Reference is hereby
made to Sheets 96, 111, 125 and 126 of the Santa Clara County .
Cadastral Planimetries Maps, showing and delineating thereon
an area of the City which has been designated as a hazardous
fire area, three copies of which Maps have been filed with the
Clerk of the City for use and examination by the public, and
which Maps are hereby specifically referred to and incorporated
herein by reference.
Section 9.110 of the Fire Prevention Code of the
City of Saratoga defines, inter alia, a "hazardous fire area" as
"any land which is covered with grass, grain, brush or forest,
whether privately or publicly owned, which is so situated, or is
of such inaccessible location, that a fire originating upon such
land would present an abnormally difficult job of suppression or
would result in great and unusual damage through fire or
resulting erosion...." The City Council of the City of Saratoga
has found and determined that the area designated as a
hazardous fire area on each of the foregoing sheets of the
aforementioned Maps does constitute a "hazardous fire area"
within the aforementioned definition. The response time of
emergency equipment to calls for aid in the hazardous fire area
is impaired due to: (1) the non-availability of access to some
portions of the hazardous fire area, (2) the existence of steep,
narrow streets and roadways located in the hazardous fir~ ~-
(3) the lack of connecting streets or road~,'-
hazardous fire area, and (4) the unusual topography of the
hazardous fire area. Further, the presence of heavy vegetation
in the hazardous fire area increases the potential for the rapid
spread of any fire which may start in that area, particularly
during seasonal dry spells.
In order to provide timely life safety warning to
inhabitants of residential structures located in the designated
hazardous fire area, and to provide the earliest possible
opportunity to alert fire suppression personnel of any potential
fire condition in the hazardous fire area, it is necessary for the
City to amend Section 1210 of the Uniform Building Code, 1982
Edition, per,taining to fire warning and sprinkler systems.
(2) Fire Warning Systems. Every dwelling unit
and every guest room in a hotel or lodging house used for
sleeping purposes shall be provided with smoke detectors
conforming to U.B.C. Standard No. 43-6. In dwelling units,
detectors shall be mounted on the ceiling or wall at a point
centrally located in the corridor or area giving access to rooms
used for sleeping purposes. In an efficiency dwelling unit, hotel
sleeping room and in hotel suites, the detector shall be
centrally located on the ceiling of the main room or hotel
sleeping room. Where sleeping rooms are on an upper level, the
detector shall be placed at the center of the ceiling directly
above the stairway. All detectors shall be located in
accordance with approved manufacturer's instructions. When
actuated, the detector shall provide an alarm in the dwelling
unit or guest room.
When alterations, repairs or additions
requiring a permit and having a valuation in excess of One
Thousand Dollars ($1,000) occur, or when one or more sleeping
rooms are added or created in existing Group R, Division 3
Occupancies, the entire building shall be provided with smoke
detectors located as required for new Group R, Division 3
Occupancies.
In new construction, required smoke detectors
shall receive their primary power from the building wiring when
such wiring is served from a commercial source. Wiring shall
be permanent and without a disconnecting switch other than
those required for overcurrent protection. Smoke detectors
may be battery operated when installed in existing buildings, or
in buildings without commercial power, or in buildings which
undergo alterations, repairs or additions regulated by the
second paragraph of this subsection.
A smoke detector shall be installed in the
basement of dwelling units having a stairway which opens from
the basement into the dwelling. Such detector shall be
connected to a sounding device or other detector to provide an
alarm which will be audible in the sleeping area.
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(3) Early Warning Fire Reporting System. In
addition to the requirements contained in subsection (2) above,
an Early Warning Fire Reporting System shall be installed and
maintained in a fully operational condition in each new dwelling
upon which construction is commenced from and after the
effective date of this ordinance in the hazardous fire area
described, defined and delineated in subsection (1) above.
Further, when an existing dwelling located in the described,
defined and delineated hazardous fire area is altered, repaired,
added to, or expanded so as to increase the floor space under
roof by fifty. percent (50%) or more of the amount of floor
space under roof, immediately prior to such alteration, repair,
addition or expansion, an Early Warning Fire Reporting System
shall be installed and maintained in a fully operational condition
in each such dwelling. For the purposes of this paragraph, any
alteration, repair, addition or expansion shall be considered as
equalling or exceeding the above fifty percent (50%) limit
where the work of construction or improvement is done at
different time intervals requiring two (2) or more building
permits within a period of five (5) years after completion of the
first improvement, where although each is for a project
emcompassing an addition of less than fifty percent (50%) of
increased floor space, but which when combined with other
expansions during said five (5) year period of time, increased
the amount of floor space under roof by fifty percent (50%) or
more of that amount which existed immediately prior to the
commencement of the first of the several alterations, repairs,
additions, or expansions.
An Early Warning Fire Reporting System may
be installed in any dwelling located within the city limits of the
City of Saratoga other than within that hazardous fire area
described, defined and delineated in subsection (1) above.
Each Early Warning Fire Reporting System
required or permitted to be installed pursuant to this section
shall include, contain, and incorporate the following
components connected in such a manner as to be capable of
automatically transmitting by standard telephone lines or such
other means as may be designated and required from time to
time by the Board of Fire Commissioners of the Saratoga Fire
District, designated alarm signals from any such installation to
the Saratoga Fire District Digital Alarm Communicator
Receiver:
(A) A California State Fire Marshal listed and
approved solid state electronic Digital Alarm
Communicator Transmitter. A Digital Alarm
Communicator Transmitter with provision for connection
of supervised integrating zone circuits can be used alone,
or any Digital Alarm Communicator Transmitter may be
used in conjunction with a California State Fire Marshal
listed and approved Fire Alarm Control Panel which
meets 'the requirements of National Fire Protection
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Association Document 72A or 74. If a Fire alarm Control
Panel is used, the connection between the Fire Alarm
Control Panel and the Digital Alarm Communicator
Transmitter shalI be through dry relay contacts on the
Fire Alarm Control Panel, or other California State Fire
Marshal listed configuration for tile Digital Alarm
Communicator Transmitter used. In addition, the Digital
Alarm Communicator Transmitter and/or Fire Alarm
Control Panel used shall incorporate the following
features:
(i) The Digital Alarm Communicator Transmitter
shall be capable of transmitting to the Saratoga Fire District
one or more multiple digit numbers, as may be assigned by the
Saratoga Fire District, via commercial telephone lines or such
other means as may be designated and required, from time to
time, by the Board of Commissioners of the Saratoga Fire
District, and shall communicate information in such a manner
and of such content as to be compatible with such
specifications as may be made and published by the Fire Chief
of the Saratoga Fire District.
(ii) The Digital Alarm Communicator Transmitter
shall be capable of transmitting a separate and distinct code for
each of the following conditions:
Zone 1.* Smoke detection zone in alarm
Zone 2: Heat detection zone in alarm
Zone 3: Manual station zone in alarm
Zone 4: Sprinkler zone in alarm
Zone 5: Medical emergency in alarm
Zone 6: Digital Alarm Communieator Transmitter
low battery indication
Zone 7: Digital Alarm Communicator Transmitter
and t~ire Alarm Control Panel general
trouble indication
Zone 8: Digital Alarm Communieator Transmitter
test signal transmission once every
24 hours.
If the Digital Alarm Communicator Transmitter
and/or the Fire Alarm Control Panel incorporate Class "A"
initiating zones, they shall be dedicated to fire alarm zones 1
through 4 above.
(iii) The Digital Alarm Communicator Transmitter
shall be capable of communicating an entire alarm signal
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transmission within thirty (30) seconds of the time at which the
connection of the ca]] is completed.
(iv) The Digital Alarm Communicator Transmitter,
and Fire Alarm Control Panel if used, shall contain an internal
continuously charging battery, capable of powering the system
for a period of at least twenty-four (24) hours in the standby
mode, and five (5) minutes under alarm conditions.
(v) Electrical supervision of the heat detection
zone, manual station zone, and the smoke detection zone (and
power to the smoke detectors) shall be provided by the Digital
Alarm Communicator Transmitter or the Fire Alarm Control
Panel. A single open or ground fault condition in one of these
zones in the Digital Alarm Communicator Transmitter, or the
Fire Alarm Control Panel, shall be indicated by a distinctive,
audible trouble signal in the dwelling in which the system is
installed. The Digital Alarm Communicator Transmitter shall
also be capable of transmitting a trouble signal to the Saratoga
Fire District Digital Alarm Communicator Receiver in the
event of a single open or ground fault condition in one of the
aforementioned zones in the Digital Alarm Communicator
Transmitter or the Fire Alarm Control Panel.
(vi) The Digital Alarm Communicator Transmitter
employed in the dwelling for transmitting signals shall be
capable of assuming line seizure priority over any other Digital
Alarm Communicator Transmitter employed for other purposes
in the same dwelling. The fire alarm Digital Alarm
Communicator Transmitter connections to telephone lines shall
be made ahead of those employed for burglar alarm or other
purposes, and shall electrically disconnect other Digital Alarm
Communicator Transmitters while transmitting signals.
(vii) All Digital Alarm Communicator Transmitters
shall be capable of being programmed to send signals that are
compatible with the Saratoga Fire District Digital Alarm
Communicator Receiver, and shall comply with the provisions
of Chapter 5 of National Fire Protection Association Document
71.
(viii) The Digital Alarm Communicator Transmitter
and the Fire Alarm Control Panel shall receive their primary
power from the external electrical supply provided to the
dwelling and shall be powered by a separate circuit that shall
have its own circuit breaker switch.
(B) California State Fire Marshal and Underwriter's
Laboratory, Inc. approved and listed automatic detectors,
capable of responding to visible products of combustion,
arranged to communicate with the Digital Alarm
Communicator Trmlsmitter or the Fire Alarm Control Panel,
and installed in the following locations at points approved by
'the Fire Chief of the Saratoga Fi~'e District in accordance with
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the standards contained in National Fire Protection Association
Document 72E-1982:
(i) On the ceiling or wall at a point located in the
corridors or areas giving access to rooms used for sleeping
purposes.
(ii) In each bedroom, located on the ceiling or wall
of the room.
(iii) On the ceiling or wall near the base of any
stairway where sleeping rooms are on an upper level.
(C) California State Fire Marshal and Underwriter's
Laboratory, Inc. approved and listed automatic detectors, of
the combination fixed-temperature rate-of-rise type, arranged
to communicate with the Digital Alarm Communicator
Transmitter or the Fire Alarm Control Panel, and installed in
the following locations at points approved by the Fire Chief of
the Saratoga Fire District and in accordance with the standards
contained in National Fire Protection Association Document
72E-1982:
(i) All rooms in the dwelling, including furnace
rooms, excepting those areas specified in subparagraph (B)
above, and bathrooms.
(ii) Attics.
(iii) Garages.
Exceptions to these standards may be permitted by
the Fire Chief of the Saratoga Fire District.
(D) California State Fire Marshal and Underwriter's
Laboratory, Inc. approved and listed audible warning devices of
sufficient number and adequately located, pursuant to National
Fire Protection Association Document 74-1984, within the
dwelling living and sleeping areas so as to cause a level of
audibility of not less than fifteen (15) decibels above ambient
noise levels measured four (4) feet above the floor with
bedroom doors closed.
(b) Sprinkler S.ystems. When required by other
provisions of this Code, automatic sprinkler systems and
standpipes shall be installed as specified in Chapter 38 of The
Uniform Building Code, 1982 Edition.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of The
Uniform Building Code, 1982 Edition, as amended, an automatic
sprinkler system shall be installed in the garage and/or carport
portion(s) of any new dwelling constructed in the hazardous fire
area designated, described and delineated in subparagraph (a)(1)
above when said garage and/or carport has a capacity to
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accommodate .three (3) or more automobiles. Further, an
automatic sprinkler system shall be installed in the garage
and/or carport portion(s) of any existing dwelling located in the
described, defined and delineated hazardous fire area, when
such dwelling is altered, repaired, added to, or expanded so as
to increase the floor space under roof by fifty percent (50%) or
more of the amount of floor space under roof, immediately
prior to such alteration, repair, addition, or expansion when said
garage and/or carport has a capacity to accommodate three (3)
or more automobiles. For the purposes of this paragraph, any
alteration, repair, addition, or expansion shall be considered as
equalling or exceeding the above fifty percent (50%) limit
where the work of construction or improvement is done at
different time intervals requiring two or more building permits
within a period of five (5) years after completion of the first
improvement, where although each is for a project
emcompassing an addition of less than fifty percent (50%) of
increased floor space, but which when combined with other
expansions during said five (5) year period of time, increased
the amount of floor space under roof by fifty percent (50%) or
more of that amount which existed immediately prior to the
commencement of the first of the several alterations, repairs,
additions, or expansions.
Moreover, an automatic sprinker system may be
installed in lieu of the approved and listed automatic detector,
the combined fixed temperature rate of rise and/or fixed
temperature only type, as required in subparagraph (a)(3)(C)
above, in those portions of the dwelling identified in
subparagraph (a)(3)(C) above. The requirements of
subparagraph (a)(3)(B) above must still be complied with
regardless of the installation of an automatic sprinkler system.
Any automatic sprinkler systems installed pursuant
this section shall be installed in accordance with the standards
contained in National Fire Protection Association Document
13D and shall be equipped with water flow switches that have a
built in retard assembly, which will send an alarm signal to the
Digital Alarm Communicator Transmitter or the Fire Alarm
Control Panel when the sprinkler system is activated.
(c) Early Warning Fire Reporting
System--Installation Permit Required. An installation permit
shall be obtained from the Saratoga Fire District prior to the
installation of any Early Warning Fire Reporting System
required or permitted to be installed pursuant to this Section.
Suitable documentation relative to the proposed installation
shall be submitted to the Saratoga Fire District for approval at
the time application is made for such a permit. This
documentation shall include the following:
(A) A complete list of all fire alarm equipment and
devices to be installed, including:
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(i) Manufacturer's make and model numbers;
(ii) Quanities of each type;
(iii) California State Fire Marshal listing numbers;
(iv) Underwriters' Laboratory, Inc., spacing
specifications for heat detectors;
(v) Evidence of control panel compatibility with
connected smoke detectors.
(B) Point to point wiring diagram or electrical sequence
list for each zone in a form acceptable to the Saratoga Fire
District. Details shall include:
(i) Wiring sequence of each initiating zone,
including wire size and the number of conductors;
(ii) Wiring sequence of each audible circuit,
including wire size and the number of conductors;
(iii) Identification of the types of initiating devices
used;
(iv) Temperature ratings indicated, when
applicable;
(v) Locations of Class "B" circuit end of line
devices;
(vi) Locations of junction boxes, when installed.
(C) If requested, copies of California State Fire Marshal
listing data sheets, and any other documents deemed pertinent
by the Fire Chief of the Saratoga Fire District.
All such systems shall be installed by a person
holding a valid fire protection engineering license, C-16
classification, issued by the California Department of
Consumer Affairs. All such systems shall be installed in a
workmanlike manner and in accordance with the specifications
and standards approved by the Saratoga Fire District. Upon
completion of the installation, the licensed installer shall
instruct the homeowner, or his or her designated
representative, in the use of the system and shall provide
applicable manufacturer's operating manuals.
The Saratoga Fire District shall be responsible for
reviewing and approving or disapproving that portion of any and
all building plans submitted to the City which are subject to
this section. The Saratoga Fire District shall also be
responsible for conducting the final inspection and approving or
disapproving 'any system installed in a dwelling pursuant to this
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section. The Saratoga Fire District may establish a fee for the
plan review and inspection services it renders pursuant to this
section. The licensed installer shall provide the Saratoga Fire
District with a set of as built plans for the system."
Sec. 3-9.9. Reserved.
Sec. 3-9.10. Reserved.
Sec. 3-9.11. Reserved.
Sec. 3-9.12. Reserved.
See. 3-9.13. Reserved.
Sec. 3-9.14. Reserved.
Sec. 3-9.15. Reserved.
SECTION 4: If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this
Ordinance is for any reason held by a Court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid,
such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance.
The City Council of the City of Saratoga hereby declares that it would have passed
this Ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause and phrase thereof
irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses
or phrases may be held invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 5: This Ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and
effect thirty (30) days from and after the date of its passage and adoption.
The above and foregoing Ordinance was regularly introduced and after the
waiting time required by law, was thereafter passed and adopted this hhiz~fl day of
OctDber 1984, by the following vote:
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AYES: CouncilnMmt~rs Callon, Clevenger, Hlava, Moyles and Mayor Fanelli
NOES: None
ABSENT: None ~'F~ ~f~,-w ~'
~ MAYOR
ATTEST:
copy of Ordinanc8 ,~3', ('z,/ . which has been
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