ORDINANCE 8014 f, .>
ORDINANCE NO. 801
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, ADDING SECTIONS 16.04. 142,
16. 04. 144, 16. 04. 146, 16. 04. 147 AND 16. 04. 149
TO CHAPTER 16.04 (THE BUILDING CODE) OF
THE "EL SEGUNDO MUNICIPAL CODE" RELA-
TING TO SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR HIGH RISE
BUILDINGS AND AUTOMATIC FIRE EXTINGUISH-
ING SYSTEMS AND DECLARING THIS TO BE AN
URGENCY MEASURE NECESSARY TO PROTECT
THE PUBLIC SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 16. 04. 142 is added to the "E1 Segundo
Municipal Code" to read as follows:
"16.04.142 SECTION 1807 ADDED -- SPECIAL PROVI-
SIONS FOR HIGH RISE GROUP H AND F -2 OFFICE BUILD-
INGS IN TYPE I CONSTRUCTION. Section 1807 is added to the
Uniform Building Code, 1970 Edition, to read as follows:
'Sec. 1807. Special Provisions for High Rise Group H and
F -2 Office Buildings in Type I -Construction. a Scope. T ese re-
quirements apply to bui ings, any portion -f wnic7FTFouse Group F,
Division 2 occupancies used as offices and to Group H occupancies.
'Such buildings having floors used for human occupancy
located more than seventy -five feet above the lowest level of
fire department vehicle access shall conform to the require-
ments of this Section in addition to other applicable require-
ments of this Code. Fire department vehicle access is here-
by defined as an accessible area within twenty -five feet of the
wall of a building.
'(b) Fire Alarm. A manual fire alarm box shall be loca-
ted adjacent to exits into stairway shafts and in every elevator
lobby. The box shall be conne(ara to the Central Control Station
and to the voice communication system as required by Section
1807 (e) and (f). The system shall be designed in accordance
with UBC Staidards or applicable provisions of NFPA 71, 72A
or 72B.
'(c) Fire Detectors. An approved system which will pro-
vide for automatic detection of products of combustion other than
heat shall be installed in every mechanical equipment room and in
the return air portion of every air condititioning and mechanical
ventilation system that serves floors other than the floor on which
the equipment is located. Detectors set to operate within the limi-
tations of UBC Standard No. 43 -6 or for greater sensitivity shall be
located at each opening into the vertical shaft.
1(d) Voice Alarm System. Both the detection system and
the fire alarm system shall activate a voice alarm system capable
of being operated from the Central Control Station on both a general
and selective basis. The alarm shall be designed to be heard by all
occupants within the building or designated portions thereof, as speci-
fied for public communication system. The elevator lobby detector
required by Chapter 51 shall be connected to the system.
'(e) Voice Communication System. There shall be two
separate, approved, continuously electrically supervised, voice
communication systems
One system for Fire Department two -way communication
between the central control station and the elevators, elevator
lobbies, corridors and each floor level of each stairway; and
The other, a public address system between the central
control station and the following areas:
(1) Elevators, elevator lobbies, corridors and stairways.
(2) In every office area exceeding 1, 000 square feet in area.
(3) In each dwelling unit and hotel guest room. The Fire
Department system may be combined with the public voice communi-
cation system when approved by the Fire Chief.
'(f) Central Control Station. A central control station for
Fire Department operations shalne provided in a location approved
by the Fire Department. It shall contain the voice communication
systems panel; fire detection and alarm system panels; status indi-
cators and controls for elevators and air handling systems, a pub-
lic telephone and sprinkler valve and water flow detectors and stand-
by power controls.
' (g) Smoke Control. Natural or mechanical ventilation for
the removal of e pro ucts of combustion shall be provided in every
story and shall consist of one or more of the following:
(1) Panels or windows in the exterior wall which can be
opened from an approved location other than fire floor. Such vent-
ing facilities shall be provided at the rate of at least twenty square
feet per fifty lineal feet of exterior wall in each story, and distrib-
uted around the perimeter at not more than fifty foot intervals.
Such panels shall be clearly identified as required by the Fire
Chief.
(2) Tempered glass may be used in lieu of openable panels.
Such glass shall be clearly identified as required by the Fire Chief.
(3) When fire sprinklers are installed in compliance with
Section 1807 ( 1), the mechanical air handling equipment may be
designed to assist smoke removal. Under fire conditions, the re-
turn and exhaust air shall be moved directly to the outside without
recirculation to the other sections of the building.
(4) A shaft through which smoke and heat can be mechanically
vented to the outdoors. The size of the shaft shall be uniform through-
out and of such dimensions as to provide sixty air changes per hour in
the largest compartment served anywhere in the building. Openings
into the shaft shall be protected with an automatic single piece shutter
located as high in the room as possible and designed to vent the entire
compartment.
(5) Any other design which will produce equivalent results.
'(h) Elevators. At least one elevator for Fire Department
access to any floor shall be provided. The elevator shall open
into a lobby, which may serve additional elevators, and shall be
separated from the remainder of the building by construction as
required for corridors. The elevator may be within a smoke -
proof enclosure. See Chapter 51 for additional requirements.
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' (i) Stand -by Power and Light. A permanently installed
stand -by power generation system conforming to UBC Standard
No. 18 -1 or NFPA 70 -1971 shall be provided. The system shall
be equipped with suitable means for automatically starting the
generator set upon failure of the normal electrical service and
for automatic transfer and operation of all required electrical
functions at full power within sixty seconds of such normal ser-
vice failure. System supervision with manual start and transfer
features, shall be provided at the Central Control Station.
'An on- premises fuel supply sufficient for not less than
two hours full demand operation of the system shall be provided.
All power, lighting, signal, and communication facilities provided
under the requirements of this section shall be transferable to the
stand -by power system.
'The power requirement shall be determined so as to provide
service to, but not limited to, the following:
(1) Fire alarm system.
(2) Exit and other emergency lighting.
(3) Fire protection equipment.
(4) Mechanical ventilation, required by this section.
(5) Fire Department elevator.
(6) Voice communication system.
' (j) Seismic Considerations. In Seismic Zones 2 and 3, the
anchorage of the following mechanical and electrical equipment re-
quired by the Section shall be designed in accordance with Section
2314 for a lateral force based on a "Cp" value of 0. 5 unless data
substantiating a lesser value is furnished.
(1) Elevator drive and suspension systems.
(2) Stand -by power and lighting facilities.
(3) Fire pumps and other fire protection equipment.
'(k) Exits. All stairway doors which are to be locked from
the stairway 7 side shall have electric strikes which can be automati-
cally unlocked upon a signal from the Central Control Station.
'Emergency telephones shall be provided at not less than
every fifth floor in each required stairway.
'(1) Fire Sprinkler Requirements. Sprinkler protection con-
forming tot the following shall be provi ed:
(1) The sprinkler system is to be hydraulically designed
using the parameters set forth in UBC Standard No. 38 -1 or Chapter
8 of NFPA 13 -1972 and the following:
A. Shut off valves and waterflow devices on each floor. In
addition to actuating a local alarm on the floor upon which the water
flow is detected, such valves shall be supervised by a continuously
manned control station or by a central station.
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"B. The sprinkler system shall be looped between standpipe
risers at the bottom, top and mid - height of all buildings with a maxi-
mum of twenty stories served by any loop. At each loop level there
shall be check valves.
C. Piping may be copper or steel with no minimum size of
pipe required. Solder connections may be used if not less than ninety -
five percent tin and five percent antimony.
D. Pitching of lines is not required.
E. A minimum of two fire pumps independently driven shall
be provided and sized for the sprinkler demand and for a minimum
five hundred gallons per minute Fire Department standpipe operations.
F. An on -site supply of water equal to a twenty minute demand
or 15, 000 gallons on a combined sprinkler and standpipe, whichever is
the smaller, shall be provided. This supply shall be available auto-
matically if the prinicipal supply fails.
G. Operation of the sprinkler system shall activate the voice
communication system.
' (2) When the automatic sprinkler system described above is
installed, the following reductions from this code are permitted:
A. The fire - resistive time periods set forth in Table No.
17 -A may be reduced by one hour for interior bearing walls, exter-
ior bearing and non - bearing walls, roofs, and the beams supporting
roofs, provided they do not frame into columns. All office building
partitions required to be of one -hour fire - resistive construction by
Table No. 17 -A and Section 3304 (g) may be of non - combustible con-
struction without a fire - resistive time period, providing that open-
ings shall have tight fitting, self- closing doors. In Group H occu-
pancies, corridor and dwelling unit or guest room separations may
be reduced to one -half hour.
B. The one and one -half inch hose lines and nozzles may be
omitted.
C. Travel distance to a horizontal exit or to an enclosed
stairway may be three hundred feet.
D. Smokeproof enclosures may be eliminated if each re-
quired stairway is pressurized as provided in Section 3309 (h) to
0. 15 inches of water column. ' "
SECTION 2. Section 16. 04. 144 is added to the "E1 Segundo
Municipal Code" to read as follows:
''16.04.144 SECTION 1907 ADDED -- SPECIAL PROVI-
SIONS FOR HIGH RISE GROUP H AND F -2 OFFICE BUILDING
IN TYPE II CONSTRUCTION. Section 1907 is added to the Uni-
form Building Code, 1970 Edition, to read as follows:
'Sec. 1907. Special Provisions for High Rise Group H
and F -2 Office Buildings of Type II Construction. Special provi-
sions for high rise Group H an F-2 office buildings of Type II
construction shall be the same as required in Section 1807 of this
Code. ' "
SECTION 6. Pursuant to Section 36937 of the Government
Code this ordinance is declared to be an urgency measure necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public safety, health and welfare and
shall take effect immediately upon its adoption, and the facts constituting
such emergency are as follows:
It is anticipated that there will be one or more applica-
tions submitted to the City for high rise buildings with-
in the next thirty days. Such high rise buildings, if con-
structed under the present law, would not have adequate
fire protection facilities and, such buildings when con-
structed would have an economic life of many years; it
is necessary, therefore, that this ordinance become effec-
tive at once so that adequate fire protection will be avail-
able during the economic life of all such buildings upon
which construction is started in the next thirty days.
SECTION 7. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and
adoption of this Ordinance; shall cause the same to be entered in the book
of original ordinances of said city; shall make a minute of the passage and
adoption thereof in the records of the meeting at which the same is passed
and adopted; and shall, within fifteen days after the passage and adoption
thereof, cause the same to be published once in the E1 Segundo Herald, a
weekly newspaper of general circulation, published and circulated within
said City of E1 Segundo, and which is hereby designated for that purpose.
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 26th day of Febru-
ary , 1973.
PZ190*0a,
Mayor C)f the City of E1 Segun o, California.
ATTEST:
JANE D. HOUGH
C ity rk
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Deputy
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO )
I, City Clerk of the City of El Segundo,
California, do hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council
of the said City is five; that the foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance No. . . . . .
is a full, true and correct original of Ordinance No. ...801 ...... of the said City of
E1 Segundo, California, entitled:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, ADDING SECTIONS 16.04. 142,
16. 04. 144, 16. 04. 146, 16. 04. 147 and 16. 04. 149
TO CHAPTER 16.04 (THE BUILDING CODE) OF
THE EL SEGUNDO MUNICIPAL CODE" RELA-
TING TO SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR HIGH RISE
BUILDINGS AND AUTOMATIC FIRE EXTINGUISH-
ING SYSTEMS AND DECLARING THIS TO BE AN
URGENCY MEASURE NECESSARY TO PROTECT
THE PUBLIC SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE.
which was duly passed and adopted by the said City Council, approved and signed
by the Mayor of said City, and attested by the City Clerk of said City, all at a
regular meeting of the said Council held on the . ,26th... day of Februarx ........
19. 73....... , and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen . Morgan; ,1Vage1,, Stephens and Mayor B41mep. .
NOES: Councilmen ... M.ggill ..................................
ABSENT: Councilmen.... None .... ...............................
I do hereby further certify that pursuant to the provisions of Section 36933
of the Government Code of the State of California, that the foregoing Ordinance
No. ..841 ... was duly and regularly published according to law and the order of
the City Council of said City in the E1 Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper of
general circulation, printed, published and circulated within said C and that the
same was so published therein on the following date, to wit:...4/.7-7-z .� ..........
JANE D. HOUGH
........... ...............................
City Clerk of the City of E1 Segundo, California
(SEAL)
eputy