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I have a client with a long, narrow site for storage of building products in outdoor sheds. Their fire apparatus access road serves double-duty as the access road to parking stalls and sheds. There is one shed that stores materials that are sensitive to moisture, so they don't want water to get on the inventory during the forklift unloading process. (A very short process; not parking; engines are running and trucks can leave immediately, without blocking fire access.)
Question: The owner wants to install a metal roof structure over this short portion of the fire access road. Is this allowable? It means they are driving underneath a metal canopy roof.
(I looked at Fire Code 503.2.1, and it does not say the lane must be open to the sky - - it only says it must have 13'-6" of clearance.)
Question: The owner wants to install a metal roof structure over this short portion of the fire access road. Is this allowable? It means they are driving underneath a metal canopy roof.
(I looked at Fire Code 503.2.1, and it does not say the lane must be open to the sky - - it only says it must have 13'-6" of clearance.)