Ontario Municipal Code Ch. 4 Street Frontage Improvements

The lack of full frontage improvements adjoining a lot or parcel occupied or to be occupied by a building, dwelling, or use, as defined in Articles 2 and 12, Chapter 1 of Title 9 of this Code, is hereby found and declared to be hazardous for pedestrians and vehicular traffic and detrimental to the health safety, and general welfare of the citizens of the City.

(§ 1, Ord. 1630, eff. June 16, 1966, as amended by § 1, Ord. 1769, eff. December 16, 1971)

Any owner, lessee, or agent constructing, altering, or enlarging a building or dwelling, or arranging for such construction, alteration, or enlargement, or engaging in any lawful agricultural, commercial, or industrial land use shall provide for the construction or installation of full frontage improvements along all the streets adjoining the lot or parcel of land on which the building or dwelling is to be constructed, altered, or enlarged or on which the agricultural, commercial, or industrial land use is conducted; such improvements to include, but not be limited to, sidewalk, curb, gutter, street paving, street lights, parkway trees, and appurtenances of appurtenant work, including relocations and reconstructions necessary to construct or install and maintain such improvements in accordance with the plans therefor, Standard Specifications, Master Plan of Street Trees, and the Master Plan of Streets and Highways, all as approved and adopted by the City, unless existing improvements have previously been constructed and/or paid for by a property owner.

(§ 2, Ord. 1630, eff. June 16, 1966, as amended by § 1, Ord. 1769, eff. December 16, 1971)

The Building Official shall deny the issuance of a building permit, or deny final approval of occupancy, or deny final public utility connections for any building or dwelling, or any agricultural, commercial, or industrial land use, until the improvements required by § 7-4.02 of this Code are constructed or their construction is guaranteed by security furnished to the City. Such security shall be of a type and in a form as provided in Cal. Gov't Code §§ 66499 et seq.

(§ 3, Ord. 1630, eff. June 16, 1966, as amended by § 1, Ord. 1769, eff. December 16, 1971 and § 1, Ord. 2162, eff. March 4, 1982)

(a) Such improvements shall not be required for any accessory buildings which do not exceed 1,000 square feet of floor area; nor for any alteration, enlargement, or addition which does not exceed fifty (50%) percent of the area of an existing building, dwelling, or land use; provided, however, such alteration, enlargement, or addition may in no case exceed 2,000 square feet of area.

(b) In areas not subdivided or parceled into one- half (½) acre or smaller lots, such improvements need not be installed for a greater distance than the minimum lot width required by the zoning regulations for the zone in which such area is located or the street frontage coinciding with the agricultural, commercial, or industrial land use, or coinciding with the buildings, dwellings, accessory land uses, and the required yards, whichever is the greater. For corner parcels in such unsubdivided areas, the side frontage shall be determined by the minimum area requirements or the side street frontage coinciding with the buildings, dwellings, accessory land uses, and the required yards, whichever is the greater.

(c) Such improvements shall not be required for any future street which is not contiguous with an existing paved street, nor in excess of the improvements as provided in subsection (b) of this section.

(d) Such improvements shall not be required with or for the installation or construction of walls, fences, signs, or billboards.

(e) Such improvements shall not be required for temporary land uses not exceeding thirty (30) days' duration.

(f) Such improvements shall not be required for open agricultural land uses as permitted in Article 13 of Chapter 1 of Title 9 of this Code, nor for any agricultural accessory building which does not exceed one thousand (1,000) square feet of floor area.

(g) In any Industrial (M) Zone where the strict compliance with the requirements set forth in this chapter for sidewalks would cause practical difficulties, unnecessary hardships, or results inconsistent with the general purpose of this chapter, the Council may determine for specific properties or areas that part or all of such sidewalk improvements will not be needed within the foreseeable future and may grant relief upon such terms and conditions as it deems necessary.

(§ 4, Ord. 1630, eff. June 16, 1966, as amended by § 1, Ord. 1769, eff. December 16, 1971)

Such determination for relief, as provided in § 7-4.04(g) of this chapter, shall be by Council resolution, and the resolution shall specify the terms and conditions upon which such relief is predicated.

(§ 4, Ord. 1630, eff. June 16, 1966, as amended by § 1, Ord. 1769, eff. December 16, 1971)

If a frontage improvement was constructed under or pursuant to a reimbursement agreement between the City and another person along a street adjoining a lot or parcel of land on which a building, or other structure requiring a building permit, is to be constructed, altered or enlarged, then:

(a) The applicant for the building permit shall pay to the City, at the time the application is submitted, all sums necessary to pay the reimbursement sum apportioned to such lot or parcel by the terms of the reimbursement agreement; and

(b) No building permit shall be issued until the sums required to be paid by subsection (a) of this section are paid.

(§ 1, Ord. 2154, eff. December 31, 1981)