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Exceptions: 1. {No change.} 2. {No change.} 3. Notification of teachers/staff having supervision of light- or sound -sensitive students/occupants, such as those on the autism spectrum, for the protection of those students/occupants, shall be allowed prior to conducting a drill. Amend Section 501.4, Timing of installation, to read as follows: 501.4 Timing of installation. When fire apparatus access roads or a water supply for fire protection is required to be installed for any structure or development, they shall be installed, tested, and approved prior to the time of which construction has progressed beyond completion of the foundation of any structure. When approved alternative methods of protection are required during the time of construction such protection shall be installed and remain serviceable prior to and during construction as required. Temporary street signs shall be installed at each street intersection when construction of new roadways allows passage by vehicles in accordance with Section 505.2. Amend Section, 503.1.1 Buildings and facilities, by adding the following sentence at the end of paragraph 1, and add paragraphs 2 and 3 to read asfollows: Section 5.03.1.1 Buildings and facilities. [Existing text unchanged.] Except for one or two-family dwellings, the path of measurement shall be along a minimum of a 10 feet (3048 mm) wide unobstructed pathway around the external walls of the structure. Fire lanes provided during the platting process shall be so indicated on the plat. Where fire lanes currently exist, the limits of the fire lane shall be shown on a site plan or plat and placed on permanent file with the Fire Marshal and City Engineer. No owner or person in charge of any premises served by a fire lane or access easement shall abandon, restrict or close any fire lane or easement without first securing from the City of Paris approval of an amended plat or other acceptable legal instrument showing removal of the fire lane. [The "Exceptions" to Section 503.1.1 shall remain as written.] Amend Section 503.2.1, Dimensions, to read as follows: 503.2.1 Dimensions. Fire apparatus access roads shall have an unobstructed width of not less than 24 feet (7315 mm), exclusive of shoulders, except for approved security gates in accordance with Section 503.6, and an unobstructed vertical clearance of not less than 14 feet (4267 mm). Exception: Vertical clearance may be reduced; provided such reduction does not impair access by fire apparatus and approved signs are installed and maintained indicating the established vertical clearance when approved.