Posted: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 9:55 pm
City officials voted unanimously to amend a Shendandoah city ordinance concerning fire sprinklers, after an appeal from Memorial Hermann Hospital in The Woodlands.
Officials with Memorial Hermann Hospital requested that Shenandoah review its sprinkler ordinance as it relates to concrete parking garages. The hospital is designing a six level parking garage with over 700 spaces and is planning to construct an industry standard dry-pipe sprinkler system, which is used to put out car fires.
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Under the current ordinance, buildings outside of the R-1 Single-Family Residential District zones are required to have fire sprinklers regardless of occupancy. The measure would require such a system be installed in the new garage and Memorial Hermann officials submitted a request to Shenandoah top exclude “non-combustible concrete open garages” from the requirement.
“This is problematic for the city because there are uses that are not residential allowed in an R-1 area, such as churches and schools,” Smith said.
The revised ordinance, presented to city council on May 8, states that all buildings shall be requiredto install a fire sprinkler system , with the exception of buildings on a single family residential lot in single family residential zones and parking structures built of non-combustible materials.
The Montgomery County Fire Marshal also gave the revised ordinance approval, and an representative stated that the garage will have plenty of fire protection features built into it.
Shenandoah City Council subsequently approved a motion to revise the fire sprinkler ordinance unanimously.
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