Structural Subcommittee
CODE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Special Meeting of the
Structural Subcommittee
DATE: |
February 10, 2004 (Tuesday) |
||
TIME: |
9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. |
||
LOCATION: |
1660 Mission Street, Room 2031 |
||
|
|||
Note: |
Public comment is welcome and will be heard during each agenda item. Reference documents relating to agenda are available for review at the 1650 Mission Street, Suite 302. For information, please call David Leung at (415) 558-6033. |
|
|
Draft MINUTES
Present |
Excused |
Absent |
Ned Fennie, A.I.A. |
|
Jim Guthrie, S.E. |
Michael Fretz, S.E. |
|
|
Other Present |
|
|
Hanson Tom, DBI |
|
|
1.0 |
Call to Order and Roll Call |
||
2.0 |
Approval of the minutes of the Structural Subcommittee special meeting of December 10, 2003. |
||
3.0 |
Continue discussion and possible action on Special inspection requirements for signs and awnings. |
||
|
(a) |
Definition. For the purpose of this section: |
|
|
(b) |
Construction. Awnings shall have noncombustible frames but may have combustible coverings. Every awning shall be collapsible, retractible or capable of being folded against the face of the supporting building. When collapsed, retracted or folded, the design shall be such that the awning does not block any required exit. |
|
|
|
|
Exception: A fixed awning not more than 10 feet in length may be erected over a doorway to the building. |
|
|
The total length of all awnings erected on a street face of a building above the second floor shall not exceed 50 percent of the length of the wall upon which they are erected. |
|
|
(c) |
Projection. Awnings may extend over public property not more than 7 feet from the face of a supporting building but no portion shall extend nearer than 2 feet to the face of the nearest curb line measured horizontally. In no case shall the awning extend over public property greater than two-thirds of the distance from the property line to the nearest curb in front of the building site. |
|
|
(d) |
Clearence. All portions of any awning shall be at least 8 feet above any public walkway. |
|
|
|
|
Exception: Any valance attached to an awning shall not project above the roof of the awning at the point of attachment and shall not extend more than 12 inches below the roof of the awning at the point of attachment, but in no case shall any portion of a valance be less than 7 feet in height above a public way. |
|
(e) |
Operating Equipment. Operating equipment of movable awnings must be so designed that the awning may be retracted, folded or collapsed against the face of the exterior walls without the use of scaffolding or ladders, and such equipment shall not project more than 6 inches beyond the exterior wall of the building. |
|
|
SFBC(1984) Section 4508. Canopies: |
||
4.0 |
Continue discussion on update to Structural Standards in 2001 California Building Standards Code. ……………… |
||
5.0 |
Continue discussion and possible action on preliminary results of CAPSS program. |
||
6.0 |
Continue discussion on DBI requirements for geotechnical reports. |
||
7.0 |
Subcommittee Member’s and Staff’s identification of new agenda items, as well as current agenda items to be continued to another subcommittee regular meeting or special meeting. Subcommittee discussion and possible action regarding administrative issues related to building codes. |
||
8.0 |
Public Comment: Public comment will be heard on items not on this agenda but within the jurisdiction of the Code Advisory Committee. Comment time is limited to 3 minutes per person or at the call of the Chair. |
||
9.0 |
Adjournment. |