§ 7-12. Fire vehicle accessibility.  


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  • To ensure fire vehicle accessibility on all city roads, all construction and improvement of city roads shall comply with the following:

    (a)

    All outside turning radii shall be at least sixty (60) feet.

    (b)

    All dead end roads exceeding three hundred (300) feet shall have a turning area at the closed end of no less than one hundred (100) feet in diameter. If the turning area has an obstruction in the turning area, a sixty-foot outside radii with a fifteen-foot width shall be required.

    (c)

    Dead-ends exceeding one hundred fifty (150) feet shall have a turning area and be the type and size approved by the fire marshal.

(Ord. No. 2012-113, § 3, 9-18-12)