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<br />Sprinklers <br />sprinkle all newly constructed residential structures, including single family <br />homes for the following reasons: <br /> <br />1) Residential sprinklers will save lives by: <br />a. Providing residents additional time in escaping a fire; <br />b. Buy-time for the Louisville Fire Department in responding to a fire. <br /> <br />2) Louisville is largely built-out. New construction in Louisville will come primarily <br />through redevelopment when homes are closer together. Residential sprinklers <br />will reduce the risk of individual household fires impacting adjacent properties. <br /> <br />3) The average price and size of a newly constructed single family home in <br />Louisville is $572,000 and 2,800sf respectively. The average cost of a sprinkler <br />system is between $1.50 and $5.00 per square foot (sf). A required sprinkler <br />system will equate to approximately .75% to 2.5% of the total price for a newly <br />constructed 2,800sf home. <br /> <br />4) S jurisdictions have adopted sprinkling <br />requirements (Westminster, Golden, Superior, and Boulder County). As such, <br />the regional residential market will not have a competitive advantage to <br /> <br /> <br />5) As more jurisdictions adopt the requirement the cost of installation will go down <br />and access to materials and expertise increases, lowering the cost of sprinkler <br />installation. <br /> <br />Fire Access <br />The residential sprinkler requirement allowed staff to work with the fire district <br />and the public works department to recommend additional changes to the LMC <br />as they relate to roadways and fire access. <br /> <br />ays and fire access <br />requirements eliminate <br />Appendix D, Fire Apparatus Access Roads and specific sections within the LMC. <br /> <br />Specific changes include eliminating the length of roadway ending in a cul-de-sac <br />without a fire lane. There is no such requirement in Appendix D. Instead, <br />Appendix D specifies the require turnaround lengths of fire vehicles. <br /> <br />Finally, staff is recommending the City not adopt Appendix D by reference, but <br />rather amended language in the LMC to state the final determination of the <br />required fire access facility dimensions shall be determined mutually between the <br />Fire Marshall and the City of Louisville, where any waiver request to Appendix D <br />in the Fire Code shall include a mutually agreed to engineering plan for the <br />alternative design of a fire access facility. <br /> <br />Wider streets have higher design speeds. Slower streets save lives. Roadway <br />safety for all modes of travel is a significant community concern. Requiring <br />residential sprinklers will and establishing Appendix D of the Fire Code as a <br /> <br />