Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance enacts, amends, and repeals Columbus City Codes to provide for changes in Title 25 - Fire Prevention Code to ensure it aligns with the Ohio Fire Code allowing the Division of Fire to remain in compliance. The Division of Fire is required to adopt a fire code and ensure it is consistently updated to maintain its designation as an Accredited Agency through the Center for Public Safety Excellence (CPSE).
The amendments set forth in this Ordinance are intended to:
1. Align the numbering system in the Columbus City Code with the system utilized in the Ohio Fire Code (OFC) which is the basis for Title 25 of the Columbus City Code
2. Establish a framework to include future updates to the OFC into Title 25 of the Columbus City Code
3. Ensure Title 25 aligns with the provisions included in the most up-to-date provisions of the OFC and grants the Division of Fire authority to enforce those provisions
4. Establish an appeals process for the Division of Fire to review citations issued for violation of this any Section of Title 25 of the Columbus City Code
5. Require crowd managers for gatherings exceeding 1,000 people to complete the prerequisite training
6. Institute a process for ordering a fire watch and publish a fee schedule for permits, inspections, modifications, and rates
7. Sets forth storage requirements for outdoor storage and pallets at manufacturing and recycling facilities
8. Establish new operational and construction permits
9. Increase the safety inspection requirements for food trucks and facilities using outside grills and natural gas fire pits
10. Support the established High Rise Safety and Knox Box programs facilitated by the Division of Fire
FISCAL IMPACT: No immediate fiscal impact to the City of Columbus....
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