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Arlington holds first reading on new residential sprinkler requirements, adds distance triggers
Summary
The Board of Mayor and Aldermen held first reading May 5 on ordinance 2025‑02 to update automatic sprinkler requirements for one‑ and two‑family homes, keeping a 5,000‑square‑foot threshold and adding two distance‑based triggers tied to firefighting access and hydrant proximity.
The Board of Mayor and Aldermen on May 5 held a first reading of ordinance 2025‑02 to amend Title 7, section 7.205, adding triggers that would require automatic sprinklers in certain one‑ and two‑family dwellings.
The proposed ordinance retains the existing 5,000 square‑foot threshold for required sprinklers and would add two additional triggers: a home that exceeds 2,000 square feet and is more than 300 feet from a fire access road, and a home more than 700 feet from a hydrant capable of supplying required fire flow. Staff presented the measure as an update based on the town’s firefighting equipment and hose capacities.
Angela Reeder, a town staff member presenting the ordinance, said, “The proposal is to maintain the 5,000 minimum trigger for an automatic sprinkler system as we have had. But to add two additional triggers.…
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