On property at any corner formed by intersecting streets, it is unlawful to install, set out, or maintain, or to allow the installation, setting out, or maintenance of any sign, hedge, shrubbery, natural growth, or other obstruction to the view, higher than 30 inches above the level of the center of the adjacent intersection, within that triangular area between the property line and a diagonal line joining points on the property lines 25 feet from the point of their intersection, or in the case of rounded corners, the triangular area between the tangents to the curve and a diagonal line joining points on said tangents 25 feet from the point of their intersection. The tangents referred to are those at the beginning and at the end of the curve at the corner.
(Prior code § 3170; 778 § 1, 1965; 2804 § 1, 2011)
The provision in Section 10.64.010 shall not apply to: permanent buildings; public utility poles; trees trimmed (to the trunk) to a line at least eight feet above the level of the intersection; saplings or plant species of open growth habits and not planted in the form of a hedge, which are so planted and trimmed as to leave at all seasons a clear and unobstructed cross-view; supporting members of appurtenances to permanent buildings existing on December 5, 1957; official warning signs or signals; post signs; or to places where the contour of the ground is such that there can be no cross-visibility at the intersection.
(Prior code § 3170.1; 2804 § 1, 2011)
The enforcement of Sections 10.64.010 and 10.64.020 shall be under the direction of the City Manager or his or her designee. The City Council shall designate representatives of the City who may, on behalf of the City Council, investigate violations of Sections 10.64.010 and 10.64.020, give such notices as may be required to carry out this chapter, and perform such other duties in connection with the enforcement of this chapter as may be imposed upon them by the City Council.
(Prior code § 3170.2; 2804 § 1, 2011)
In addition to the remedies provided in Sections 10.64.010 through 10.64.030, or by the law of this State, any obstruction maintained in violation of this chapter shall be deemed a nuisance, and upon failure to abate the same within 20 days after the posting upon the premises of notice to abate the nuisance signed by an authorized representative of the City Council, such representative of the City Council as it may so authorize may enter upon the premises and remove or eliminate the obstruction. In such event, the cost to the City of the abatement of the nuisance shall be a lien upon the premises. The cost of such abatement shall, in addition, be a personal obligation against the owner of the premises upon which the nuisance was maintained, recoverable by the City in an action before any court of competent jurisdiction.
(Prior code § 3170.3; 2804 § 1, 2011)
No obstruction to cross-visibility shall be deemed to be excepted from the application of Sections 10.64.010 through 10.64.040 because of its being in existence at the time of December 5, 1957, unless expressly exempted by the terms of Sections 10.64.010 through 10.64.040.
(Prior code § 3170.4; 2804 § 1, 2011)