Rancho Cucamonga Municipal Code Art. I In General

A. Title. This chapter is known as the "Construction Permit Code" of the city.

B. Purpose—Intent. These standards, guidelines and procedures for the city are established and adopted to protect and promote the public health, safety, morals, comfort, convenience, welfare and more particularly:

1. To protect the physical and economic stability of the city by ensuring adequate construction of public improvements and prevention of damage to existing public improvements through negligent construction practices;

2. To reduce hazards to the public resulting from inappropriate construction and traffic-control procedures during construction activities affecting streets, highways, sidewalks, drainage facilities and other public places owned and operated by the city.

(Code 1980, § 12.03.010; Ord. No. 218, § 2, 1984)

The following words shall have the following meanings:

"City engineer"

means the city engineer of the city or his or her designated representative.

"Encroachment"

includes any tower, pole, pole line, pipe, pipeline, fence, billboard, stand or building or any structure or object of any kind or character not particularly mentioned in this subsection, which is placed in, under or over any portion of the highway.

"Facility"

means any street, highway, curb, gutter, fencing, pipe, pipeline, tube, main, service, trap, vent, vault, manhole, meter, gauge, regulator, valve, conduit, wire, tower, pole, pole line, anchor, cable, junction box, transformer, or any other material structure or object of any kind or character, whether enumerated in this subsection or not which is lawfully constructed, left or placed or maintained in, upon, along, across, under or over any public place.

"Plans"

means the document developed and approved by the city engineer describing the nature and extent of works proposed to be constructed or carried out on a public place.

"Public place"

means any public street, way, place, alley, sidewalk, park, square, plaza or other similar public property owned or controlled by the city and dedicated to public use.

"Specification"

means "The Standard Specifications For Public Works Construction" (current edition including supplements) written and promulgated by Southern California Chapter American Public Works Association and Southern California District Associated General Contractors or California Joint Cooperative Committee and published by Building News Inc., and which shall govern all street right-of-way construction within the city, unless otherwise noted on approved plans.

"Standard drawings"

mean the "Standard Drawings" of the city, adopted and revised by the city engineer.

(Code 1980, § 12.03.020; Ord. No. 218, § 2, 1984; Ord. No. 870 (Recodification), 2014)

A. This chapter shall be administered by the city engineer whose responsibilities for this chapter include the following functions to be carried out either directly or by subordinate employees:

1. Application process. Establish the form and process for application for construction permits required pursuant to this chapter. Processing includes the certification of completed applications, the approval of plans, the establishment of files, collection of fees and security deposits.

2. Interpretation. Interpret the provisions and advise the public on the requirements of this chapter and all plans, specifications and special provisions concerning works on facilities governed by the provisions of this chapter.

3. Plan approval. Establishes format and content of plans and standards governing the improvements or works on facilities pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.

4. Permit issuance. If the applicant for a permit complies with every provision of this chapter the city engineer may issue to the applicant a written permit to perform the work set forth in the application and approval. Any permit authorized under any of the provisions of this chapter may be issued subject to such conditions, changes and limitations as are in the discretion of the city engineer necessary for the protection of the public place, highway or other facility, or to prevent undue interference with traffic, or to protect both persons and property within, upon or adjacent to said places from damage or danger.

5. Change in conditions after permit issued. Any permit issued by the city engineer under any of the provisions of this chapter or the conditions to which it has been made subject, may be amended or changed if the city engineer deems such amendment or change to be necessary for the protection of the highways, or to prevent undue interference with traffic, or to protect both persons and property within, upon or adjacent to said highways from damage or danger. Notification of the amendment or change shall be made by the city engineer either by mailing written notice to the permittee at the address indicated on his or her application for the permit, or by making personal service of the written notice upon the permittee. The amendment or change shall be effective either 24 hours after the written notice is deposited in the United States mail or immediately upon completion of personal service.

6. Refusal to issue permit. The city engineer may refuse to issue permits or may revoke any outstanding permits heretofore or hereafter issued, or any portion thereof, where the work has not been started, when the work authorized by the permits, or such portions thereof is included in the proposed work to be done, by any existing assessment district, or by any proposed assessment district for which formation proceedings have been instituted by the city council or where prior claims or disciplinary action is pending against the applicant for permit which would make it in the best interest of the city to refuse such action or because of violations of provisions of the permit or provisions of this chapter.

(Code 1980, § 12.03.030; Ord. No. 218, § 2, 1984; Ord. No. 870 (Recodification), 2014)