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ORDINANCE NO. 183
AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF LOS ALTOS HILLS AMENDING
ORDINANCE NO. 105 OF SAID TOWN, RELATING TO FIRE DEPARTMENT
APPROVAL OF CERTAIN NEW SWIMMING POOLS.
The City Council of the Town of Los Altos Hills does hereby
ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. There is hereby adopted that certain map dated
February 11, 1971, and marked "Swimming Pool Regulation Map of
The Town of Los Altos Hills", a copy of which map is attached to
this ordinance and by this reference incorporated herein, and at
least three copies of which shall be kept on file for public
inspection in office of the City Clerk.
SECTION 2. The City Council hereby finds and determines
that in the area of the Town shown on the Swimming Pool Regulation
Map of the Town of Los Altos Hills marked area "B", due to the
present availability of adequate fire fighting water supplies,
it is not necessary that each new swimming pool be required to
have Fire Department access or connection.
SECTION 3. Section XXIII. of Ordinance No. 105 of the
Town of Los Altos Hills is hereby amended to read as follows:
"SECTION XXIII. SWIMMING POOL REGULATIONS
Every swimming pool, wading pool, water storage
tank and other similar sources of water located within the area
marked "A" on the Swimming Pool Regulation Map of the Town of
Los Altos Hills shall be so located that access thereto by the
Fire Department vehicles can be readily made. The installation
of every such pool or tank shall be subject to approval by the
Fire Department prior to issuance of a building permit, and
prior to certification of final inspection.
In lieu of providing the hereinabove required
access, the owner may provide a permanent suction pipe running
from the pool, tank or other source of water to a location
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prescribed by the Fire Department. The construction, specifications,
and maintenance of such suction pipe installation shall be as
prescribed by the Fire Department, and said installation shall be
tested prior to granting final building and fire department approval.
Such specifications shall provide for a pipe of a minimum size of
four inches (4") inside diameter and all fittings shall have
California Standard Thread as prescribed in Section 1400 of
Subchapter 9 of Chapter 1 of Title #19 of the California
Administrative Code.
No person shall place or keep any post, fence, growth,
trash or other material or thing near any access route or permanent
suction pipe outlet that would prevent such access route or
permanent suction pipe outlet from being immediately discernible,
or in any other manner deter or hinder the Fire Department from
gaining immediate access to such permanent suction pipe, swimming
pool, tank, or other source of water.
The requirements of this Section shall be applicable
only to pools, tanks and other similar sources of water located
within the area marked "A" on the Swimming Pool Regulation Map of
the Town of Los Altos Hills for which permits are issued and
construction is commenced subsequent to the effective date of this
ordinance."
SECTION 4. Except as hereby amended, said Ordinance No. 105
shall be and remain in full force and effect.
SECTION 5. This ordinance is adopted pursuant to
Sections 50020 of the Government Code of California, and shall be
posted in three (3) public places within said Town and shall become
effective thirty (30) days following its adoption.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was
introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the
Town of Los Altos Hills on the 19th day of April, 1971, and
was thereafter, at a regular meeting of said Council held on
May 3, 1971, passed and adopted by the following roll call
vote:
AYES: Councilmen Corbett, Davey, Grabowski, Helgesson,
and Mayor Benson
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ATTEST:
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