Parking Lot Striping Marietta, GA

Marietta, GA Parking Lot Striping

Marietta is a city in Georgia, lying northwest of Atlanta. Close to leafy Marietta Square, an 1845 past cotton stockroom holds the Marietta Museum of History. Displays there put emphasis on local history. Not far from the Marietta Museum of History lies the Gone with the Wind Museum, celebrating the film and the Margaret Mitchell novel.
 
Just northwest of Marietta, trails line Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, location of an 1864 Civil War battle. This national battlefield park is where the Atlanta Campaign took place, and also contains Kennesaw Mountain. The name “Kennesaw” came from the Cherokee Indian “Gah-nee-sah”, which means “cemetery” or burial ground.
 
Marietta is well known for its 69 acre water park Six Flags White Water. The park originally opened in 1984 as White Water Atlanta and later joined with the Six Flags Family of parks in 1999.
 
One of Marietta’s most popular restaurants is The Big Chicken, which is a KFC restaurant featuring a 56 foot tall steel sided chicken rising up from the top of the building. The restaurant is located at the city’s biggest intersection of Roswell Road and Cobb Parkway. It is a well known attraction in the area.

Fire Lane Striping

Fire lanes are marked by painting curbs in a parking lot designated for trucks and other emergency vehicles and apparatus to access the facility in case of an emergency. Fire lanes are always required to be located near buildings. Listed below are some of the regulations for fire lanes. 

Fire Lane Requirements

• A fire lane must be 10 feet wide, level, and unobstructed. Landscaping may be considered an obstruction in certain situations based on what type it is and its location. 

• A continuous row of parking between a fire lane and a facility is considered a barrier. 

• Fire lane width must be measured face of a curb to face of a curb. 

 

• Fire lane with of 24 feet will require a minimum turning point of 30 feet. 

 

• Fire lane with a width of 26 feet also requires a minimum turning radius of 30 feet. 

 

• Fire lane with a width of 30 feet will require a minimum turning radius of 20 feet. 

 

• The fire lane should be positioned a minimum of 15 feet and a maximum of 30 feet from its corresponding building and should be parallel with one long side of the building. 

 

• Fire lane cannot exceed 6% in grade change and the grade transition should not exceed 5%. 

 

• Fire lane should exceed 6% net grade change for hills and valleys.

• Maximum departure angle and angle of approach is 6%. 

 

• Maximum cross slope is 6% 

 

• Fire lane are required to service building entrances, loading areas, and collection areas to be available to fire trucks and other emergency vehicles. 

 

• Fire lanes can either be continuous such that they provide sustained and unobstructed access of at least two parts difference from qualifying street or single lanes which are a dead end.

• Non aerial apparatus fire lanes may be required to be located within 30 feet of a building if found necessary by the Fire Chief to enable proper and efficient protection of the building. 

 

• More than one fire lane may be required when found necessary. It is important in certain locations due to potential impairment of a single road by vehicles congestion, poor terrain, or adverse climatic conditions. 

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• Fire lanes may be continuous, such that they require at least 2 points of access, unobstructed, or they may be single dead ended fire lanes. 

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