Chapter 12.16 — OBSTRUCTION OF STREET CORNERS

It is unlawful for any person, association, or corporation owning or occupying private property at or near a street corner formed by intersecting streets to install, set out or maintain, or to allow the installation, setting out or maintenance of any sign, fence, wall, hedge, shrubbery, natural growth or other obstruction to the view, higher than three feet above the level of the center of the adjacent intersection, within that triangular area between the property lines and diagonal lines joining points on the property lines forty feet form 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 the tangent forty 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.

(Ord. 261 §1, 1967)

Section 12.16.010 shall not apply to:

A.

Buildings and other structures for which a permit is required under the building code of the city, public utility poles, fire hydrants, trees trimmed to the trunk to a line at least eight feet above the level of the intersection, saplings, 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;

B.

Official warning signs or signals at places where the contour of the ground is such that there can be no cross-visibility at the intersections;

C.

Signs mounted ten feet or more above the ground and whose supports do not constitute an obstruction.

(Ord. 261 §2, 1967)

Any obstruction maintained in violation of this chapter is declared to be a nuisance, and if the owner or occupant of the property involved fails to abate the nuisance within ten days after the posting of notice upon the property to abate the nuisance, city officials may enter upon the premises and remove or trim the growth. In such event, the cost to the city of the abatement of the nuisance shall be deemed a personal obligation of the owner and the occupant of the premises, which can be recovered in a civil action or which may be added to the city's tax on the property.

(Ord. 261 §3, 1967)

Every person, association, or corporation who violates any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor. Each separate day or any portion thereof during which any violation of this chapter occurs or continues constitutes a separate offense, and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable as provided in this chapter.

(Ord. 261 §4, 1967)