Gilroy Municipal Code Art. VIII Hedges, Shrubs, Etc., Obstructing Visibility at Street Intersections Or…

It shall be unlawful for the owner or occupant of any corner lot or premises in the city to install, set out, maintain, permit or allow the installation, setting out, maintenance or existence of any hedge, shrubbery or other obstructions to the view higher than three feet above the adjacent street curb level between the curbline and the property line or within the triangular area of the private lot or premises between the property lines adjacent to the corner and a diagonal line joining points on the property lines twenty feet from the point of their intersection, or in the case of rounded corners, the area circumscribed by the curve and a chord to the curve; such chord being a line drawn between the point of tangency at the beginning of the curve and the point of tangency at the end of the curve. The foregoing provisions shall not apply to permanent buildings, public utility poles, official warning signs or signals, or to places where the contour of the ground is such that there can be no cross visibility at the intersection.

(Ord. No. 658, § 1; Ord. No. 79-4, § 1, 2-5-1979)

It shall be unlawful for the owner or occupant of any lot or premises in the city to install, set out, maintain, permit or allow the installation, setting out, maintenance or existence of any hedge, shrubbery, trash, rubble, or other obstructions to the passage of pedestrian or vehicular traffic over any public sidewalk, street, or street gutter area.

Editor’s note: Ord. No. 79-4, § 1, adopted Feb. 5, 1979, revised § 20.61 to read as herein set out. Formerly § 20.61 had pertained to the applicability of § 20.60, and had been derived from Ord. No. 658, § 2.

(Ord. No. 79-4, § 1, 2-5-1979)

In addition to the remedy by prosecution for violation of this article, any obstruction maintained in violation of this article shall be deemed a nuisance, and upon failure to abate the same within twenty days after the posting upon the premises of notice to abate the nuisance, signed by the city administrator or his authorized representative, the city administrator or his authorized representative 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 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.

(Ord. No. 658, § 4)

The enforcement of this article shall be under the direction of the city administrator. The city administrator may designate representatives who may investigate violations of this section, give such notices as may be required to carry out this section, and perform such other duties in connection with the enforcement of this article as may be imposed upon them by the city administrator.

(Ord. No. 658, § 3)

No obstruction to cross-visibility shall be deemed to be excepted from the application of this article because of its being in existence at the time of the adoption hereof, unless expressly excepted by the terms of this article.

(Ord. No. 658, § 5)

Any person violating any of the provisions of this article shall be punished as provided in section 1.7.

(Ord. No. 658, § 6; Ord. No. 77-15, § 17, 4-18-1977)

§ 20.66. through § 20-69. (Reserved)