16.48.050 Fire Hydrant Spacing and Locations:
Fire hydrant spacing and locations shall meet the following requirements.
A. Fire hydrants shall be installed at six hundred foot (600') intervals, or less, along municipal and private streets. This distance shall be reduced to three hundred feet (300'), or less, adjacent to commercial and industrial uses, and adjacent to residential buildings that consist of three (3) or more units. Additionally, these distances shall be reduced by one hundred feet (100') for dead-end streets. Hydrants shall be placed within one hundred feet (100') of street intersections, but additional hydrants may be required between intersections when the spacing requirements are exceeded by block lengths.
B. Additional hydrants may be required for residential units with building areas that exceed five thousand (5,000) square feet.
C. Additional hydrants, water mains, and appurtenances that are capable of supplying fire flows shall be installed by the applicant if any portion of a building is more than one hundred fifty feet (150') from an approved fire apparatus access road as measured along an approved route around the exterior of the building, exept:
1. When a commercial building is within two hundred fifty feet (250') of a fire hydrant supplying the fire flow.
2. When a one (1) or two (2) family residence is within four hundred feet (400') of a fire hydrant supplying the fire flow, which residential building area, separation from other structures, or a combination of these two (2) factors, would not result in unacceptable fire flow for the residence.
D. Unoccupied, detached, accessory-use buildings, such as shops, garages, and storage sheds, shall be within six hundred feet (600') of a fire hydrant, unless all of the following conditions are met:
1. The building area is six hundred (600) square feet, or less.
2. The building is separated from other structures by thirty feet (30'), or more.
3. All portions of the exterior of the building are within one hundred fifty feet (150') of a fire apparatus access road.
E. The Fire Marshal may approve the number of required fire hydrants to be reduced by one (1) when the building is protected by an approved NFPA compliant sprinkler system not otherwise required. (Ord. 2482, 7/14/09; Ord. 2083, 7/23/02; Ord. 1738, 1996; Ord. 903, 1978)