San Jose Municipal Code Part 3 Process

All applications for bus stop facilities encroachment permits issued pursuant to this chapter shall be filed with the director and shall include a plan of the proposed work containing, without limitation, the following:

A. A description of the proposed bus stop facility;

B. A diagram of the proposed location of the bus stop facility;

C. An accurate description and location of the affected city rights-of-way;

D. The specific location of existing above and underground facilities such as sewers, pipes, conduit and cables, poles, polelines, control cabinets or structures, trees, curb, gutter, sidewalk, edge of pavement;

E. A diagram or other documentation tying bus stop facilities to well established lines of record such as property lines, monument lines or well established physical references such as street intersections, faces of curbs or lips of gutters;

F. Clear identification, design and engineering of any proposed structures, including any bus shelters to be constructed; and

G. Clear identification, design and engineering of any improvements to areas adjacent to the proposed bus stop facility required by federal, state or local law necessary for access by the disabled to the bus stop facility; and

H. Such additional information as the director, in the director's sole discretion, deems necessary.

(Ord. 24982.)

A. The application fees for bus stop facilities encroachment permits shall be in the amount set forth in the schedule of fees established by resolution of the city council except where the director determines that the construction, installation, alteration, or relocation is required by the city for its own purposes.

B. The application fees shall either be paid at the time the application is filed with the director or pursuant to an invoice procedure established by the director.

(Ord. 24982.)

The director may issue a bus stop facility encroachment permit only upon finding:

A. All necessary information has been provided to enable an adequate evaluation of the application; and

B. The issuance of the bus stop facilities encroachment permit is in the public interest and welfare, considering proper traffic control, safety and welfare of the public, an absence of conflict with and compatibility with other existing or planned facilities and the city's use of the right-of-way; and

C. All improvements conform to the requirements of this chapter; and

D. The bus stop facilities encroachment permit includes all conditions required by Section 14.05.400.

(Ord. 24982.)

A. The permittee shall notify the director as soon as possible if the permittee finds that the work cannot be performed as approved in the bus stop facilities encroachment permit and shall request approval of an amendment to the permit.

B. The permittee shall notify the director at least one business day in advance of actual commencement of the work covered by the bus stop facilities encroachment permit, or in such other time as required by the permit.

(Ord. 24982.)