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Fire Department Review of Land Usage Lowry Grove Redevelopment Review of plans were performed by: Fire Chief – Mark Sitarz Fire Marshal – Chris Fuller In reviewing the plans we have put together a listing of our comments and concerns below. The City of St. Anthony is currently under the 2015 Minnesota State Fire Code (MSFC), based on the 2012 International Fire Code. All plans will be reviewed according to this and any reference to standards in that code. • Access Roads: Appendix D of the MSFC has been adopted by the City of St. Anthony and provides rules for access roads and turn arounds. Additional requirements are in Chapter 5. Specifically detailed is roads shall be maintained to within 600 ft. in sprinkled R occupancies. It was difficult to determine if this is being met by the site drawing. • A hammerhead style turn around will be needed in NE corner of development. One of our concerns relates to winter parking and snow accumulation in that area. • There are various sides of the structures that will require additional access roads with a 20 foot width and engineered to provide access for fire apparatus • It was unclear if there will be access to the courtyard areas. • There were various areas of concern on whether road width appears to be in compliance. • Hydrant spacing was difficult to determine from drawing. • As a reminder that hydrant placement is tied to where the FDC (fire department connections) are placed as well as building standpipes. As of now, we do not know where the FDC locations on the structures will be and those locations will need to be determined and approved by the Fire Marshal. • There were no hydrants noted on Stinson Boulevard. Those need to be added to the plan. • All buildings, as currently proposed, will be sprinkled. • Building entrances are not indicated on the drawing. Proposed building entrances are important for planning access issues, fire department connection locations, and fire lane restrictions. Garage entrance locations also need to be considered. • Considerations for the actual buildings cannot be addressed until detailed plans are submitted for the actual buildings. A plan review process will occur for all proposed buildings and will reference the codes in force when the plans are submitted. 209