Petaluma Municipal Code Ch. 2 DeZnitions

Section 202, General DeZnitions, is amended to amend and add the following:

Fire Apparatus Access Road. A road that provides Zre apparatus access from a Zre station to a facility,

building or portion thereof. This is a general term inclusive of all other terms such as Zre lane, public

street, private street, parking lot lane and access roadway. Public streets may be deZned by the

standards of the local agency having jurisdiction over the project.

Occupancy ClassiKcation is modiZed to include:

203.5.1 Moderate-hazard factory industrial, Group F- is amended to add to the list of Moderate-

hazard factory industrial groups the following:

Agricultural crop production including cultivation, drying, processing and/or storage.

Substantial Remodel. Any repair, reconstruction, rehabilitation, alteration, addition or other

improvement of a building or structure that is any of the following:

(1) An existing building or structure not classiZed as Group R-3 occupancy that undergoes any addition of

[oor area that is equal to or exceeds 10 percent of the existing gross [oor area of the building or

structure.

(2) An existing building or structure classiZed as a Group R-3 occupancy that undergoes any addition of

[oor area that is equal to or exceeds 50 percent of the existing gross [oor area of the building or

structure.

(3) An existing building or structure that undergoes any combination of repair, reconstruction,

rehabilitation, alteration, addition or other improvement to [oor area of the building or structure that is

equal to or exceeds 50 percent of the existing gross [oor area of the building or structure.

(4) If in the determination of the Building O\cial a building or structure has sustained substantial

damage, as deZned by Section 202 of the California Building Code as amended hereby, any combination

of repair, reconstruction, rehabilitation, alteration, addition or other improvement are considered

substantial remodel regardless of the actual work performed.

The Code O\cial shall aggregate any combination of repair, reconstruction, rehabilitation, alteration,

addition, or other improvements to a building or structure within a three (3) year period, and if the

combined a]ected gross [oor area of the building or structure is equal to or exceeds 50 percent (50%) of

gross [oor area of the building or structure, the aggregated work shall constitute substantial remodel

and the building shall be subject to the Zre sprinkler requirement.

Nuisance Alarm. An unwarranted alarm caused by mechanical failure, malfunction, improper

installation or lack of proper maintenance, system servicing testing, construction activities, ordinary

household activities, false alarm, other cause when no such danger exists, or an alarm activated by a

cause that cannot be determined.

Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Area (WUI). [SFM] (See California Building Code Chapter 7A, Section

702A and Chapter 2, Section 202 of the 2025 California Wildland-Urban Interface Code for deZned term.)