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JOHN R. KLAUS
City Attorney
SANDRA M. ZENK .A
MARK W. F. LINDHOLM
Assistant City Attorneys
August 5 , 1981 AUG 6 19ft'
Honorable F. Paul Goodland, Mayor
and Members of the City Council
of the City of Ames , Iowa
In Re : Proposed Ordinance Reconciling_; Fire Safety
Standards With the Uniform Building Code
Dear Mayor Goodland and Council Members :
Attached please find proposed amendments to the rental
housing code concerning fire safety. These proposed amend-
ments were initiated by the Fire Department and have been
scrutinized at a meeting; of officials from Community
Development and the Fire Department . The wording approved
at that meeting has been used in the attached proposal ,
with several changes in style and form. Without these
amendments the rental housing code is more onerous than the
Uniform Building Code.
The proposed amendment of Section 13 . 35 (2) (c) includes an
expanded definition of "hazardous areas" . The present
definition does not clearly include rooms containing fur-
naces or hot water heaters . The proposed definition is
taken verbatim from Section 19-3 . 2 . 1 of the Life Safety
Code (1981) .
Respectfully submitted,
Mark W. F. Lindholm
Assistant City Attorney
cc J. Elwell
R. Parks
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