No person shall encroach upon or in any way obstruct or occupy
any street, alley, sidewalk, public grounds or land dedicated to public
use, or any part thereof, by placing, storing, displaying, building,
erecting or causing to be placed, stored, displayed, built or erected
thereon any goods, wares, merchandise, material, substance, snow or
ice, building, billboard, advertising sign, clock, pole or other obstruction
or structure or suffer the same to remain thereon when placed or built
as aforesaid except as provided by this chapter. No person, firm or
corporation shall operate or cause to be operated any trucks, contractor's
equipment of any kind or any other vehicle from any premises adjoining
any street or highway within the Village, so as to enter upon such
street or highway from such premises with the wheels, tires, lugs,
cleats or other portions of the equipment containing earth, mud or
other material, without providing proper means of cleaning up the
street or highway and removing the earth, mud, dirt and other materials
so deposited thereon.
The prohibition of §
11.20.010 shall not apply to signs or clocks attached to buildings which project not more than six feet from the face of such building and which do not extend below any point 10 feet above the sidewalk, street or alley, or to awnings which do not extend below any point seven feet above the sidewalk, street or alley; nor to public utility encroachments duly authorized by law; nor to goods, wares, merchandise or fixtures being loaded or unloaded which do not extend for a distance of more than three feet on the sidewalk from the curb of any street (provided that such goods, wares, merchandise or fixtures do not remain thereon for a period of more than two hours); nor to temporary encroachments or obstructions authorized by permit under §§
11.20.030 through
11.20.070 of this chapter; nor to street or sidewalk openings and excavations permitted under Chapter
11.16 of this title.
[Amended by Ord. No. 005, Series 1996; Ord. No.
001, Series 2002; Ord. No. 008, Series 2011]
The Director of Public Works may erect or cause to be erected
within the street right-of-way banners for the promotion of events
or activities sponsored by private, not-for-profit organizations under
the following conditions:
A. Pole-mounted banners and ground banners may be erected at First Avenue/WIS
60; Falls Road/Green Bay Road (near Lime Kiln Park); and Grafton Avenue/Washington
Street.
B. There may be only one banner per site at any given time.
C. Banners shall be installed and removed by the Department of Public
Works.
D. The materials and construction of banners shall be subject to rules
to be determined by the Director of Public Works.
E. Banners shall be displayed no earlier than two weeks prior to the
start of the event or activity being promoted. Requests for banners
to be displayed longer than two weeks shall be subject to the approval
of the Director of Public Works.
F. Banners from eligible organizations will be erected on a first-come,
first-served basis; however, banners from Village-sponsored events
will take precedence over all other organizations.
G. Banners shall not contain any commercial message, except the logo
or name of commercial cosponsors, which may occupy not more than 20%
of the surface area of a ground banner.
H. Banners promoting political candidates or parties, or political or
legislative causes, activities or events shall not be displayed.
I. The Director of Public Works may remove banners which become damaged,
unsightly, unsafe, or when severe weather is expected.
J. There shall be a fifty-dollar fee for the erection of banners.
Permits for the use of the streets, alleys, sidewalks or other public ways of the Village for the purpose of moving any building or structure or for encumbering the same with building material or other articles necessary in and about the construction, erection, repair or removal of any building or structure may be granted to applicants by the Director of Public Works, provided such applicants have first obtained a building permit and have complied with the other requirements of this section and §§
11.20.040 through
11.20.070.
No permit shall be issued under this chapter until the applicant
executes and files with the Village Clerk a bond in an amount determined
by the Director of Public Works, conditioned that the applicant will
indemnify and save harmless the Village of and from all liability
for accidents or damage caused by reason of the granting of the permit
and will remove such encumbrance upon termination of the building
or moving operations, will leave the vacated premises in a clean and
sanitary condition, and will repair any and all damage to any street,
alley, sidewalk or public property resulting from such building or
moving operations.
[Amended by Ord. No. A-528-89, 1989]
The fee for a street privilege permit shall be $25.
The permission to occupy or obstruct the streets, alleys, sidewalks
or public grounds is intended only for use in connection with the
actual erection, alteration, repair, removal or moving of buildings
or structures and shall be given upon the following terms and conditions
and subject to revocation without notice for violation thereof:
A. Such temporary obstruction or occupancy shall cover not more than
1/3 of any street or alley;
B. Obstructions shall be sufficiently lighted at night so as to be in
full view of the public from all directions;
C. Sidewalk traffic shall not be interrupted, but temporary sidewalks
of not less than four feet in width, guarded by a closed fence at
least four feet high on both sides, may be maintained during the period
of occupancy;
D. The process of moving any building or structure shall be as continuous
as possible until completed and, if ordered by the Director of Public
Works, shall continue during any hours of the day or night;
E. No building or structure shall be allowed to remain overnight on
any street crossing or intersection or so near thereto as to prevent
easy access to any fire hydrant;
F. Buildings shall be moved only in accordance with the route prescribed
by the Director of Public Works;
G. Upon termination of the work necessitating such obstruction, all
parts of the streets, alleys, sidewalks and public grounds occupied
under the permit shall be vacated, cleaned of all rubbish and obstructions,
and placed in a safe condition for public travel at the expense of
the permittee.
All permits issued under this chapter shall automatically terminate
at the end of three months from the date of issuance unless an earlier
termination date is specified thereon at the direction of the Director
of Public Works.