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(f)fhe travel time to a fire within the City is impeded by the following conditions, unique to Redwood City: (1) Railroad tracks divide the City into three (3) sections, and response requiring crossing of these tracks faces potential delay for emergency vehicles. The heavily populated northern postion of the City is without an overcrossing; (2) There is an absence of parallel emergency response routes to Highway 101 or El Camino Real and an absence of adequate north/south emergency response routes west of the railroad tracks, impeding access to a heavily populated section of the City; (3) A growing community of single family and multi- family dwellings presently exists on the easterly side of Highway 101, which is itself a potential physical barrier to response to a fire. (g) that, on the basis of an analysis per:ormed by Mr. Warren Kimball, a noted Fire Service Specialist, two (2) to four (4) gallons of water per minute are required to be applied to extinguish fire in each 100 cubic feet of a building involved in a fire. On that basis, it would require at least 2,250 gallons per minute be applied for extinguish- ment of a fire totally involving a 7,500 square foot building. Accepted Fire Department good practice would require additional"manpower and waterflow if area separation walls, used to circumvent the 7500 square foot requirement, were present. The City Fire Department, with multiple alarm response involving on-duty personnel and present equipment is capable of supplying approximately 1,000 gallons of water per minute. (h) Since an automatic monitored sprinkler system is designed to suppr8ss or contain fire, and to automatically alert the Fire Department of the r:;enacing presence of a fire the existence of such a system will increase the likelihood that a building on fire will not be totally involved with fire by the time the Fire Department responds, and that the fire will be controlled to a level consistent with fire fighting resources provided by the City of Redwood City. (i) The requirements of the aforesaid local amendment fulfill the City's desire to minimize its fire fighting and fire prevention costs since the City cannot afford to pay for increased levels of fire fighting which would be the result of the application of normal uniform fire code and building code require- ments.