§ 12.24.090. Permit—Issuance when.

A.

If the proposed location of any street betterment, or facility or equipment to be constructed, reconstructed, erected, installed, maintained, operated or repaired, in, upon, along, across, under or over any street or removed from any street, and if the proposed location of any obstruction or temporary driveway to be constructed, left, placed or maintained in, upon, along, across or over any street by the applicant does not interfere:

1.

Unreasonably with the use of the street for the purpose of travel;

2.

With any proposed or contemplated use of the street by the city or any of its departments, either above or below the surface of the street, for which plans have been prepared, or for which plans are in the course of preparation, which said plans have been authorized by the city manager or the legislative body of the city;

3.

With personal property lawfully in, upon, along, across, under or over streets; and otherwise complies with the applicable provisions of this chapter, or any other ordinance of the city germane thereto, in force and effect at the time such application is made, the engineer shall approve such application and issue a permit or permits therefor; provided, however, that the engineer shall not issue any permit when the proposed manner of doing the work would be detrimental to the public welfare.

B.

The director of public works shall not issue a permit for any driveway approach at any location on a freeway frontage road or other city street if in his opinion such installation would cause excessive vehicular weaving or lane changing movements or otherwise adversely affect traffic flow and safety on public streets. It is not the intent of this section that the director of public works shall deny vehicular access to any property, but rather that, based on sound traffic engineering principles, he shall exercise control over the number and location of all points of driveway access to city streets.

(Ord. 5198 § 1, 1975; Ord. 3387 § 5, 1937)