§ 13-63. Additional fire protection measures.

When the county fire chief determines that access constraints, hazard severity or topography and terrain adversely affect the ability of emergency fire equipment and personnel to respond to an emergency on a parcel, the county fire chief may require additional fire protection measures as follows:

(a)

Where conditions delay, limit or prohibit access by emergency fire equipment and personnel to a parcel, the county fire chief may require any of the following fire protection measures in addition to the other standards specified in this article:

(1)

Increased emergency water supply;

(2)

Installation of an automatic sprinkler system that meets the requirements of the national fire codes and local regulations where not required by code;

(3)

Increased flammable vegetation clearance areas for buildings;

(4)

Use of fire-resistive vegetation;

(5)

Use of fire-resistive deck and eave construction;

(6)

Installation of fire-resistive exterior siding;

(7)

Installation of a centrally monitored fire alarm system;

(8)

Creation of areas of safe refuge;

(9)

Vegetation management plan.

(b)

Where a parcel is located within a very high fire hazard severity zone as defined by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, the county fire chief may require any of the following fire protection measures in addition to the other standards specified in this article:

(1)

Any of the fire protection measures specified in subsection (a);

(2)

Construction of additional turnouts and turnarounds;

(3)

Provision of a secondary means of ingress and egress to the parcel;

(4)

Vegetation management plan.

(c)

Where features of topography or terrain create conditions on a parcel which the county fire chief determines warrant additional fire protection measures, the county fire chief may consider the parcel to be an area of high or very high fire hazard severity and require any of the fire protection measures specified in subsection (b) in addition to the other standards specified in this article.

(Ord. No. 6184 , § I, 11-15-2016; Ord. No. 6049, § I, 11-5-2013; Ord. No. 5905, § I, 11-2-2010; Ord. No. 5373, § 2, 2002; Ord. No. 5166 § 1(jj), 1999: Ord. No. 4959 § 6, 1996: Ord. No. 4905, § 1, 1995.)