13.56.144 Fire flow - Connections restricted.
No connection to the city water system shall be allowed, or building permit issued, for new construction, improvements, developments, redevelopments or modifications to existing buildings or portions of buildings that place additional demand on the water system after if the fire flow and flow duration requirements placed upon the water system as a result of such connection would exceed the systems ability to meet the requirements established by the Uniform Fire Code as adopted by the city.
Prior to the adoption of 6497 on 03/24/2010, Section 13.56.144 read as follows.
No connection to the city water system shall be allowed, or building permit issued, for new construction, improvements, developments, redevelopments or modifications to existing buildings or portions of buildings that place additional demand on the water system after January 1st, 1997, in the Herbig Heights pressure zone, as defined in AMC 13.56.142(B)(4), if the fire flow and flow duration requirements placed upon the water system as a result of such connection would exceed two thousand five hundred (Ord. 2500) gpm under the Uniform Fire Code as adopted by the city.