A. 
A driveway must be constructed to provide access from a public place over and across a concrete curb and gutter and sidewalk to the adjacent property, and no person shall make any opening in or through any curb of any public place without first obtaining a written permit from the director of development services. The permit issued by the director of development services shall limit the type, size and number of curb cuts to conform with safety considerations for pedestrians and motor vehicle movement on the adjacent street or alley. An applicant may appeal in all cases to the assembly from the decision of the director of development services.
B. 
All driveways constructed on public places where paved roadways and curbs exist shall be constructed according to the standard construction specifications and standard details of the municipality. The minimum width of curb cuts shall be 12 feet at the curb.
C. 
No person shall install a driveway culvert in any ditch, drain or gutter in any roadway, right-of-way, street, alley, public place or public easement without first obtaining a written permit from the director of development services.
(CAC 10.44.010; AO No. 2003-68, § 9, 9-30-2003)
A. 
No person shall construct or repair any sidewalk in a public place except in accordance with the line, grade, slope and specifications established by the director of development services, or without first obtaining a written permit from the director of development services, which permit shall be prominently displayed on the construction site. The director of development services is empowered to establish a fee for such permit, subject to adoption of fee schedules by the assembly.
B. 
No person shall cause any sidewalk in a public place which abuts upon property owned by him to fall into a state of disrepair or to be unsafe. If such a sidewalk falls into such disrepair or becomes unsafe, after ten days' written notice furnished to such owner the sidewalk may be removed by the municipality or repaired at the owner's expense unless immediately repaired in accordance with municipal specifications.
(CAC 10.44.020; AO No. 2003-68, § 9, 9-30-2003)
A. 
It is unlawful for anyone to use any scaffold or staging in a public place unless it has sufficient strength to support the weight to be placed upon it and unless it has sufficient width to prevent persons and materials from falling from it. Tarpaulins and scaffolds shall be braced sufficiently or anchored to the building so that they will not fall or be blown about or otherwise collapse.
B. 
It is unlawful for any person to erect, hang, build or maintain any scaffolding over any public place without a permit from the director of development services. A general permit for the use of the public place while building or remodeling a structure shall carry with it the right for such scaffolding; however, where scaffolding is to be placed on or immediately adjacent to a public place, proposals for covered walkways or other methods of protecting passersby will be subject to the approval of the director of development services.
(CAC 20.44.030; AO No. 2003-68, § 9, 9-30-2003)
A. 
It is unlawful for anyone in any manner to obstruct, excavate or tear up any public place without at all times during the performance of the work providing and maintaining such fences, barricades, red lights, flares, warning and directional signals, flagmen and watchmen as are necessary for the safety of the general public, as determined by the director of development services. All such barricades, fences and warning and directional signs shall be illuminated from one-half hour before sunset to one-half hour after sunrise. "No parking" signs shall be placed the evening prior to commencement of work and shall be equally spaced at the rate of four per block on each side of the street. Lettering on signs shall be three inches high. The sign shall show hours of the day in which parking is restricted. Barricades may be removed at the completion of work or the removal of obstructions in public places providing the surface of the roadway has been restored to the satisfaction of the director of development services.
B. 
All such regulatory, warning or guide signs, barricades, directional arrows and route markers will conform to the provisions of the standard construction specifications and details of the municipality.
C. 
The contractor, municipal department or utility company will provide and maintain all necessary lighting devices (torches, lanterns, flashers and electric lights) throughout the project and will be responsible for providing and maintaining any necessary warning signs and barricades adjacent to the construction site. If a municipal crew must be called to perform any maintenance on any lighting devices or other means of protecting the public due to the failure of the contractor to comply with this subsection, a service fee of $50.00 per location will be billed to the responsible private firm or individual by the municipality. No payments on any contract with the municipality will be made until all such fees are paid in full.
D. 
It is unlawful to deface, move, injure, damage, alter or remove any barricade or light placed at or near any obstruction or defect in the street, or posted to obstruct the passing of vehicles.
(CAC 10.44.040; AO No. 2003-68, § 9, 9-30-2003)
When necessary to occupy a public place to clean or paint any building, wall or sign, or part thereof (window washing, etc.), or to make periodic changes to any such structure, whether of a material nature or not, it is unlawful for anyone to undertake such cleaning, painting or changing without first having a permit to do so from the director of development services. The permit shall specify the portion of the public place which may be occupied with equipment for the generating of steam or compressed air, for hanging scaffolds, or for any purpose whatsoever.
(CAC 10.44.060; AO No. 2003-68, § 9, 9-30-2003)
If cleaning as described in section 24.50.050 is done with steam, the steam boiler and all its appliances, including any piping, hose and nozzle, shall comply with the provisions of the law regulating the operations of steam boilers in the municipality, and no boiler may be put into operation without first having withstood a test by a boiler inspector. A valid boiler permit signed by the boiler inspector must be posted on the plant.
(CAC 10.44.080)
During operations as described in section 24.50.050, a suitable portion of the sidewalk or other public thoroughfare as required by the director of development services shall be barricaded in an approved manner. Specified hours of operation and additional construction may be required to protect the public in passing the point.
(CAC 10.44.120; AO No. 2003-68, § 9, 9-30-2003)
If a ladder more than 12 feet in height is used in building or cleaning operations in a public place, there shall be at all times a man stationed at the base thereof, if, in the interest of public safety, it is required by the director of development services.
(CAC 10.44.130; AO No. 2003-68, § 9, 9-30-2003)
A. 
An application shall be filed with the director of development services for use of street or walk area deemed necessary for building operations. The applicant shall also specify the period of time he desires to use the specified area. The director of development services will investigate the area adjacent to the place of such building construction, demolition or repair as to the traffic carried by the roadway and walks, and as to the inconvenience and hazard to the public. This application shall be accompanied by a plan of the definite limits of areas desired for use, which are to be confined to the property to be improved and the area abutting the property to be improved; provided that, upon written permission of other adjacent property owners filed with the application and approved by the director of development services, the street use may extend beyond the limits of the improvement.
B. 
Such use of walk or street area abutting a residential property, except on arterial highways and bus routes, shall be limited to the use of the street area between the sidewalk and the curb and, where necessary, that area adjacent to the outside of the curb generally occupied by a parked automobile. On arterial highways and bus routes the use of street area is to be limited to the area authorized by the director of development services.
C. 
Upon completion of investigation of street use as applied for, the director of development services may direct that a permit be granted, the permit to be subject to the applicant furnishing public liability insurance and cash deposit or surety bonds as the director of development services deems necessary to protect the municipality from any claims for damages to persons or injury to public utilities or for any other cause. The director of development services may revise such plans and applications and confine the use of the street to the area as he finds to be of the greatest safety for the public. He may alter conditions of the permit at any time he finds such use may cause damage to persons or things or to any improvements of the municipality.
(CAC 10.44.150; AO No. 2003-68, § 9, 9-30-2003)
A. 
Fences or enclosures required by section 24.50.150 at building sites on which construction or demolition operations are being performed shall be solid and tight for their full length, except for such openings, which shall be provided with sliding doors or hinged doors swinging inward, as may be necessary for the proper execution of the work. The doors of such openings shall be securely fastened in a closed position when not in use.
B. 
Such fence, unless otherwise provided, shall be at least eight feet in height and shall, where practicable, be erected before any work is commenced; provided that, if the enclosure is adjacent to a street intersection or corner, that portion of the fence from four feet to eight feet high which is within 30 feet each way from the corner must be of wire mesh to provide for traffic visibility at all times, unless otherwise designated by the director of development services.
(CAC 10.44.170; AO No. 2003-68, § 9, 9-30-2003)
Earth taken from excavations and rubbish from buildings shall not be stored on the sidewalk or other street area, but shall be removed from day to day as rapidly as produced. Where such materials are dry and apt to produce dust when handled, they shall be kept sufficiently moist to prevent the wind from blowing them about. Building rubbish accumulating on upper floors and all rubbish, plaster and other loose materials produced while wrecking, altering or repairing a building must be lowered by elevators in closed receptacles or by closed chutes connecting to vehicles removing such materials, and, when likely to produce dust, the chute must be provided with means of wetting this waste to prevent the wind from blowing it about.
(CAC 10.44.190)
Any damage done to sidewalks, pavement, sewers, drain inlets, catchbasins or any other public facility shall be repaired by the director of development services as he finds necessary, and all costs, plus overhead as provided in section 24.30.110, shall be charged against the owner, agent or contractor; except that, if a permit is granted to do so, the owner, agent or contractor may restore and repair such damages as required and under the inspection of the director of development services.
(CAC 10.44.210; AO No. 2003-68, § 9, 9-30-2003)
Where excavations are to be made in any area adjacent to a street area, the owner, agent or contractor making such excavation shall maintain the lateral support of the street area where excavations have been made in the street area, or, if a cave-in or slide of earth has occurred extending into a public place due to excavation on private property, the director of development services shall restore the street area at the expense of the owner, agent or contractor, who shall be jointly and severally liable therefor. If the director of development services so directs, the contractor, owner or agent shall make such backfill and restoration under the inspection of the director of development services. The director of development services shall collect the cost of any such work done or inspection made from the cash deposit or surety bond supplied by the contractor, owner or agent or by civil action in the manner provided by law.
(CAC 10.44.220; AO No. 2003-68, § 9, 9-30-2003)
Whenever an excavation is to be made adjacent to a public place or in any case wherein materials are to be moved across a public sidewalk or curb or a portion thereof not set aside as a driveway, and the adjacent street area is not being used under permit while building, the owner, agent or contractor shall secure a permit to drive over the walk or curb and deposit cash, a surety bond or both as provided in this title and as the director of development services directs.
(CAC 10.44.230; AO No. 2003-68, § 9, 9-30-2003)
In the use of street area, or driving over walks and curbs, the permittee is required to keep such walk and pavement reasonably clean, properly protected by planks or other method during working hours, and safe for public travel. Upon failure to do so, the director of development services may place such planking and cause such cleanup to be made, and the cost thereof, plus overhead as provided in section 24.30.110, is to be charged to the permittee. Any charges so made may be deducted from the permittee's deposits on file or may be charged against his bond.
(CAC 10.44.240; AO No. 2003-68, § 9, 9-30-2003)
Whenever structures are built or extended to a point where the height of construction exceeds 25 percent of the distance from the sidewalk, or where the height or extension of the structure exceeds eight feet and materials are to be moved across the sidewalk, a covered walkway not less than four feet wide shall be constructed along its entire length on the street side. The protective roof shall have a clear height of eight feet above the walkway and shall be tightly boarded with a covering of roofing paper or other material to prevent water from falling through. Every such walkway shall have a tight board fence built along its entire length on the side abutting the building site. The requirements of this section may be waived at the discretion of the director of development services if he finds them unnecessary to protect the public safety.
(CAC 10.44.250; AO No. 2003-68, § 9, 9-30-2003)
Whenever it is not necessary to construct a covered temporary walkway according to section 24.50.240, an uncovered temporary walkway shall be constructed where directed by the director of development services as a condition to the issuance of the permit. The temporary walkway shall be kept clear for the passage of pedestrians, except when materials are being handled over the walkway, and no person shall leave any material, tools, implements, machinery or debris thereon. Whenever such a walkway is constructed, an adequate and secure handrailing shall be constructed on the curb side thereof. The temporary walkway shall be constructed or reconstructed to conform with the requirements of the director of development services. When deemed necessary by the director of development services, a tight board fence shall be erected along the side next to the abutting private property. The tight board fence shall be at least eight feet high, except that portion within 30 feet of a street intersection shall not be more than four feet high. No temporary building, structure, machinery or materials shall be located in a street intersection, except walkways as provided in this chapter.
(CAC 10.44.290; AO No. 2003-68, § 9, 9-30-2003)
Discharge of cooling, air conditioning or similar water into any public place, or into any facility within any public place, is a wasteful practice and not in the best interests of the public. Henceforth, issuance of permits for such discharge or for connection of facilities to provide or allow such discharge, or for the alteration of previously existent facilities providing discharge where such alteration may increase the discharge above the levels provided at the time of adoption of the ordinance codified in this chapter, or for replacement or relocation of any existent facilities which provide discharge within any public place, is prohibited. Any discharge or action in violation of this section will make the offender subject to the provisions of chapter 24.95 relative to penalties, and each and every day such violation continues shall be deemed a separate offense.
(CAC 10.44.310)
No person shall raise anything from or lower anything to any street, alley or other public place by means of a rope, chain or pulley without first obtaining a written permit from the director of development services. Before any such permit is issued, the applicant therefor shall furnish a bond deemed adequate by the director of development services, which bond shall become available in the payment of any damage to public or private property and the payment for any personal injuries resulting from such raising or lowering. Such permit shall also contain any requirements for placing barricades around the area of work as may be considered necessary by the director of development services.
(CAC 10.44.320; AO No. 2003-68, § 9, 9-30-2003)