1974-403RESOLUTION NO. 74R -403
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF ANAHEIM SETTING FORTH LOCAL
CONDITIONS JUSTIFYING AMENDMENTS TO THE
UNIFORM BUILDING CODE, 1973 EDITION.
WHEREAS, Health and Safety Code Section 17958.5 provides
for a City to make changes or modifications in the Uniform
Building Code, 1973 Edition, as are reasonably necessary because
of local conditions; and
WHEREAS, Health and Safety Code Section 17958.7 requires
the City Council to make express findings of the necessity for
modifications in the Uniform Building Code before adopting such
changes; and
WHEREAS, the Chief Building Inspector of the City of
Anaheim has recommended that the Uniform Building Code, 1973
Edition, be adopted by the City with certain modifications and
amendments which are required by local conditions.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the modifications
to the Uniform Building Code recommended by the Chief Building
Inspector are hereby expressly found to be necessary on account
of local conditions as follows:
Sections 15.04.001 through 15.04.303 of the Anaheim
Municipal Code. These sections are administrative in nature and
adopt the 1973 Uniform Building Code by reference as well as
make it compatible with other Codes enforced by the City of
Anaheim.
Section 15.04.426 of the Anaheim Municipal Code. This
amendment is necessary to allow planned unit development with
small lots in which an open space under common ownership provides
the necessary distance between buildings to prevent conflagration.
This is consistent with current building practice throughout
the State.
Section 15.04.1501 of the Anaheim Municipal Code. This
amendment includes masonry fences over three feet (3) high in
the definition of a J Occupancy and is necessary in order to
regulate this type of fence which is in common use as property
line fences in residential tracts and is regulated by Zoning
ordinances. Many masonry fences are placed adjacent to public
right -of -way.
Section 15.04.407 of the Anaheim Municipal Code. This
amendment changes the definition of the Front of Lot, and is
necessary to make the Building and Zoning Codes compatible.
Section 15.04.420 of the Anaheim Municipal Code. This
amendment adds a definition for swimming pools which are regulated
in Section 6.56 of the Anaheim Municipal Code.
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Section 15.04.1807 of the Anaheim Municipal Code. This
amendment reduces the maximum height above which high rise
residential and office buildings must be fire sprinklered from
75 feet to 55 feet above the lowest level of fire department
vehicle access and requires that all such buildings, with
sprinklers, have openings in exterior walls located vertically
one above the other protected by approved flame barriers extending
30 inches beyond the exterior wall in the plane of the floor or
by vertical fire resistant wall panels not less than 3 feet in
height. This amendment is necessary due to the inability of the
city fire suppression forces to attack and suppress fires in
buildings over 65 feet in height without these features.
Section 15.04.2623 of the Anaheim Municipal Code. This
amendment requires a vapor barrier beneath a concrete floor slab
in Group D, H, and I occupancies and is necessary because of
local soil and climatic conditions.
Section 15.04.3503 of the Anaheim Municipal Code. This
amendment requires sound insulation in exterior walls of residential
building in noise critical areas and is necessary to comply with
State laws.
Section 15.04.3504 of the Anaheim Municipal Code. This
amendment specifies the methods of obtaining compliance with
State mandated noise regulations and is necessary to comply with
State law.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution,
together with the Ordinance adopting the Uniform Building Code
as amended, be filed with the State Department of Housing and
Community Development.
THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION is approved and signed by
me this 20th day of August 1974.
ATTEST:
CITY CLERK OF THE ITY OF ANAHEIM
MAYOR THE CITY OF N HEIM
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF ORANGE ss.
CITY OF ANAHEIM
I, ALONA M. HOUGARD, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do
hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution No. 74R -403 was intro
duced and adopted at a regular meeting provided by law, of the City
Council of the City of Anaheim held on the 20th day of August, 1974,
by the following vote of the members thereof:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Kaywood, Seymour, Sneegas and Thom
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
TEMPORARILY ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Pebley
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
AND I FURTHER CERTIFY that the Mayor'of the City of Anaheim
approved and signed said Resolution No. 74R -403 on the 20th day of August,
1974.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed
the seal of the City of Anaheim this 20th day of August, 1974.
(SEAL)
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CITY CLERK OF THE CITYOOF ANAHEIM
I, ALONA M. HOUGARD, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do
hereby certify that theforegoing is the original of Resolution No.
74R -403 duly passed and adopted by the Anaheim City Council on
August 20, 1974.
City Clerk