(A) Public or private access shall be maintained to each building so that the first responding fire division pumper unit may be located so that all points of the interior of the building may be reached by 150 feet of fire division initial attack hose. Where the size and height of the building does not allow this access, an interior standpipe system connected to a public water system and equipped with a fire division connection, when approved by the bureau, may be considered as meeting the above criteria.
(B) Public or private access for motor fire apparatus shall be maintained around the building so that it may be properly laddered and operation of mechanical elevated mechanisms may be properly utilized.
(C) Access routes shall be arranged so that fire division apparatus may respond from all points of the building to adjacent fire hydrants along routes not to exceed 300 feet from the most remote point of the building to the closest fire hydrant.
(D) Fire lanes on private property shall be approved by the bureau. Parking of motor vehicles or otherwise obstructing fire lanes or access routes shall be prohibited at all times.
(E) All property owners shall at the direction of the fire chief, post with approved signs and pavement markings those fire lanes approved by the bureau.
(Ord. 6117, passed 4-30-74; Am. Ord. 7178, passed 4-15-86; Am. Ord. 8344, passed 3-2-04; Am. Ord. 9135, passed 2-6-18) Penalty, see § 92.99