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To� BOARD OF SUPERVISORS t
FROM: V'�V1 1L a
INTERNAL OPERATIONS.�COMMITTEE
DATE: April 25, 1988
SUBJECT Notifying Applicants of Flood ,Control
and Fire District Requirements
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATIONS:
1. Request the Community Development Department to print their
notice to applicants for land use. entitlements on bright
colored paper.' placing language such as "Important" in block
letters at the top of the page and revising the text to
indicate that collect and convey , and road improvement
requirements may be "extremely expensive".
2 . Request the Fire Chiefs Association and the Building
Inspection Department to jointly prepare a notice which
Building Inspection can provide to each 'applicant for a
building permit at '.. the time" the application is issued
indicating that approval from the appropriate fire district
is required, and ' that the applicant should check with the
appropriate fire district.
3 . Request the County Administrator' s Office to prepare a study
of 'the plan.checking staff in the Riverview and Consolidated
Fire Districts to determine the volume of plan. checking in
each district, the number of staff assigned, and to
determine whether there is a feasible way to transfer one
existing staff .member. from_ one or the other, of the districts
to Building Inspection to do all plan checking for all fire
districts The County Administrator should report this
matter, along with his recommendations, to our Committee on
July 11.
BACKGROUND:
On March 15, 1988, at the request of Supervisor Torlakson, the
Board of Supervisors , referred to our Committee the need to
provide more complete notification .to applicants for land use
entitlements and building permits of the flood control, road, and
fire district requirements. Supervisor Torlakson noted problems
which have occurred when developers were not aware of these
requirements and only after building permits were obtained were
the, developers advised of extensive additional costs to comply
with fire district, requirements.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT; YES SIGNATURE;
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR X RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
X APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE s: Sunne W. McPe.ak Tom Torlakson ,
ACTION OF BOARD ON ay APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
X. UNANIMOUS '(ABSENT ' ) AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
AYES:_ NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
.ABSENT; ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
CC: 'County, Administrator ATTESTED
Terry McGraw, CAO' s Office
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Director, Building Inspection PHIL BAT ELOR. CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
' .Chief Alan Little, Riverview Fire Dist. SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
Asst. Chief Harguth, Consolidated Fire
Terry Curtola, BIA BY -�.� ,DEPUTY
M382/743 —
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Our Committee met with staff from the Community Development
Department, Flood Control District, the Consolidated and
Riverview Fire Districts, County Counsel, and Terry Curtola,
representing the Building Industry Association, on April 25,
1988 . The issue regarding flood control and road requirements
appears 'to ' be more easily addressed. Our Committee reviewed a
form -which is now being provided by the Community Development
Department to all applicants for subdivisions, development
permits, land use permits, and variance permits. While the
existing notice does caution the applicant that the collect and
convey and road improvement requirements may be expensive, we
believe these requirements need to be highlighted through the
.measures recommended in recommendation No. 1 above. The
Community Development Department indicates that meeting these
additional suggestions will not be a problem.
In terms. of the fire district requirements, `we have a much more
complex problem. We reviewed a report from the County
Administrator' s Office summarizing the results of a meeting
between the fire districts and Building Inspection which outlined
three options for resolving the communications problems between
the fire districts and Building Inspection. These include having
the individual requesting a building permit provide verification
prior to the ,issuance of the building permit that the appropriate
fire district, and possibly other special - districts, have
reviewed . and approved the required plans. This option is
supported by the fire .districts.
The second option would involve having the developer supply an
additional set of plans to the Building Inspection Department at
the time the. individual applies for a building permit. Building
Inspection. would then forward the copy of the plans to the
appropriate fire district, although the fire district ' s comments
would not necessarily have been received prior to the issuance of
the building permit.
The third option would have 'one fire protection engineer assigned
. to the Building , Inspection Department to perform all fire
district plan checking in the Building Inspection Department.
This third option is supported by the Building Industry
Association and is opposed by the fire districts for reasons
which are set forth in their correspondence with our Committee.
Supervisor' Toriakson tends to support the idea of having a fire
protection engineer assigned to Building Inspection, and has
asked that the County Administrator' s Office determine the level
of staffing the fire districts presently have in the plan
checking area. The County Administrator should also determine
the feasibility of assigning one of these fire district staff
members to Building Inspection to perform plan checking on behalf
of all of the fire districts.
Our Committee is, therefore, recommending the above
recommendation No. 2 as an interim measure until the County
Administrator reports -back to our Committee on the feasibility of
assigning staff to Building Inspection to centralize the plan
checking for all fire districts.
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