1. The permittee shall keep a copy of the encroachment permit at the worksite while work is in progress and shall, on demand, exhibit the same to any City representative requesting to see it.

2. All work shall be performed in a neat and workmanlike manner and so programmed as to cause a minimum of interference with pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Reasonable access rights of the public shall be considered at all times. Unless otherwise authorized, traffic shall be permitted to pass through the worksite at all times.

3. No work shall commence until all necessary warning signs and barricades are installed at the work site.

4. Safe and adequate pedestrian and vehicular access shall be provided and maintained to residential, commercial and industrial establishments, churches, and establishments of similar nature.

5. During the performance of the work, the permittee shall provide and maintain fences, barricades, warning and directional signs, flares, red lights, watchers and flaggers to ensure full and complete safety to the general pubic in accordance with existing laws and regulations and as may be deemed necessary by the City.

6. Vehicular access to residential driveways shall be maintained to the property line except when necessary construction prevents such access for reasonable lengths of time. If the backfill has been completed to such an extent that safe access may be provided, and the street is opened to local traffic, the permittee shall immediately clear the street and driveways to provide access.

7. The work shall be diligently and continuously prosecuted until completion. All work shall be completed within the time specified in the encroachment permit. Any extension of time, which must be based upon good cause, must be approved by the City.

8. Upon failure of the permittee to maintain the worksite in a safe and workmanlike manner, the City shall have the right, upon due notice to the permittee, whenever possible, to perform emergency measures to ensure public health and safety.

9. Free and unobstructed access shall be provided to all mail boxes, fire hydrants, water gates, valves, manholes and other public service structures and property as may be required for emergency use.

10. Safe and adequate pedestrian zones and public transportation stops, as well as pedestrian crossing of the worksite at intervals not exceeding three hundred feet, shall be maintained unless otherwise authorized by the City.

11. All gutters, drains, conduits, culverts, catch basins and stormwater facilities shall be kept open so as to permit the free and unobstructed flow of water at all times. The permittee shall conform with all provisions of Chapter 8.36 which prohibits the depositing of nonstormwater discharges into the City roadway or storm sewer system.

12. Public service structures such as, but not limited to, street signs, mail boxes and bus benches shall not be removed or relocated by the permittee without written approval from the agency charged with their maintenance.

Stop signs and street directional signs are not to be removed or relocated by the permittee. When necessary to facilitate the work, the permittee shall request the City to coordinate their removal or relocation by City forces. The permittee will not be charged for this work.

13. When the proposed work will block a bus stop or require the relocation of a bus route, the permittee shall notify and obtain approval from the engineer and transportation superintendent of the affected public transit agency at least seventy-two hours prior to the start of work.

14. It shall be the duty of the permittee excavating or otherwise obstructing the public sidewalk, to erect a minimum five-foot-wide walkway outside of the curbline along such excavation or obstruction during the time as the sidewalk may remain impassable. Where applicable, a substantial railing approved by the City shall be provided on each side of the walkway to protect pedestrians.

15. At locations approved by the City, and for the necessary prosecution of work, the permittee may place approved signs prohibiting parking and stopping. Such signs shall be placed, moved or removed upon approval of the City.

16. The permittee shall cooperate with the various agencies involved with the delivery of mail and the collection and removal of trash to assure maintenance of schedules for these services.

17. Unless otherwise authorized, work shall be performed in one vehicle lane at a time. The remainder of the roadway shall remain open and unobstructed for vehicle use.

18. The permittee shall not disturb or remove any monument of concrete or other lasting material set for the purpose of locating or preserving the public right-of-way or a precise reference point without first obtaining permission to do so in writing from the City.

19. The excavation work shall be coordinated with other agencies or concerns working in the area in order to cause a minimum of interference to pedestrian and vehicular traffic.

20. When work conditions necessitate the closure of any public street in order to facilitate the permittee’s operations, the permittee shall first secure approval in advance and in writing from the City, in the form of a road closure permit. The permittee shall submit, for approval, three sets of drawings for each proposed detour of vehicular and pedestrian traffic at least three calendar days prior to the implementation of the proposed street closure.

21. Upon approval of the City granting the permittee permission to close the public street to facilitate excavation operations, the permittee shall comply with all State, County and City requirements governing street closures. The permittee shall provide approved barriers, guards, lights, signs, temporary bridges, flagmen, and watchmen advising the public of detours and construction hazards. The permittee shall be responsible for compliance with additional public safety requirements that may arise during construction operations. The permittee shall provide and maintain access for emergency vehicles and personnel at all times. Upon completion of the work the permittee shall immediately remove all signs and warning devices installed by his forces.

22. Upon approval of the agency to detour vehicular traffic, the permittee shall, at the direction of the City, remove existing pavement markings and striping. Temporary traffic striping, pavement markings and signs approved by the City shall be furnished and placed by the permittee at no expense to the City. Upon completion of the work, the permittee shall immediately remove all temporary detour markings and reinstall permanent striping and pavement markings, removed as a result of his operations, with approved materials authorized by the City.

Restoration of permanent pavement striping and marking shall conform to the following:

23. The permittee shall properly maintain all City signs within the limits of the worksite and shall not remove any signs without prior approval of the City. Any City signs authorized for removal shall be properly stored and reinstalled prior to the completion of the work.

24. The permittee shall not be permitted to store or stockpile equipment, materials, and debris on public streets without authorization by the City.

1. A moratorium street shall be defined as any street, or portion thereof, which has been overlaid with at least one inch of asphaltic concrete any time during the five years prior to the request to excavate, or overlaid with a slurry seal during the past two years prior to the request to excavate.

2. In addition to the specifications set forth in this Section, the permittee shall be required to pay the City a slurry seal in-lieu fee to cover the cost of a full roadway width slurry seal on that portion of the roadway affected by the permittee’s excavation activities. City Council resolution shall set this fee. This money will be utilized by the City to augment its scheduled slurry seal maintenance effort throughout the City as directed by the City Council.

3. The slurry seal fee shall be required of all excavation permittees, regardless of size of excavation anti regardless of whether the excavation is made on an emergency basis or as a planned project.

4. The City reserves the right to specify any conditions, in addition to those enumerated in this Section, to ensure that the outcome of any excavation is safe, structurally sound, and aesthetically pleasing.

1. At least two working days in advance of the start of excavation operations the permittee shall call Underground Service Alert to have subsurface facilities marked.

2. Excavation for conduit shall be performed by open trench operation. Tunneling or jacking of conduit will not be permitted unless specifically authorized by the City.

3. The rockwheel concrete cutter method of trench excavation will not be permitted unless specifically authorized by the City.

4. Minimum cover of underground plant shall be thirty-six inches in the public street and twenty-four inches in the public sidewalk area, unless otherwise authorized by the City.

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6. The use of a mobile, power-driven pavement breaker will not be permitted unless specifically authorized by the City.

7. Trench excavations falling within three feet of a construction joint, cold joint, expansion joint or edge shall require the permittee to remove the existing paving material between the edge of the excavation and said construction joint, cold joint, expansion joint or edge. Concrete sidewalk and/or driveway shall be removed to the nearest scoremark.

8. Prior to commencing the excavation of a trench five feet in depth or greater, where applicable, the permittee or permittee’s contractor shall first obtain a permit to do so from the Division of Industrial Safety.

9. Except by permission of the City, the maximum length of open trench at any one time shall be one hundred fifty linear feet, unless otherwise authorized by the City.

10. Excavated material shall be promptly removed from the work site. Excavated material shall not be stored in any public street or thoroughfare unless authorized by the City prior to the start of work.

11. The encroachment permit to excavate does not authorize tree trimming or tree removal. The City will coordinate all necessary tree trimming or tree removal with appropriate professional contractors.

12. Street tree roots two inches in diameter or greater shall not be cut by the permittee. Excavated material shall be removed from the root system so as to avoid damage thereto. Roots shall be protected with burlap wrapping while exposed.

13. Open trenches will not be permitted during nonworking hours unless specifically authorized by the City. If at the end of the workday, backfilling operations have not been completed, steel bridging shall be placed over the trench so as to make the entire roadway accessible to vehicular traffic. Steel plating used to bridge a street opening shall be ramped to the elevation of the adjacent pavement surface and secured against movement in any direction. Ramps shall be constructed of temporary cold asphaltic concrete and shall have a minimum slope of 1:12.

14. The placement of trench bedding material supporting the pipe or conduit shall conform to Caltrans Standard Specifications, 1988, unless otherwise authorized by the City.

1. Trenches shall be backfilled with controlled density fill (CDF), unless specifically authorized otherwise by the City.

2. If authorized by the City in very specific instances for small excavations, aggregate backfill shall be placed in lifts not to exceed eight inches and mechanically compacted, as specified by Caltrans Standard Specifications, 1988.

3. Street pavement undermined by the permittee’s operations shall be removed to permit adequate compaction of backfill material.

4. Compaction Requirements. Backfill shall be densified to the following minimum relative compaction:

5. Relative compaction shall be determined by California Test Number 216 (Nuclear Gauge) or approved equal.

6. Tests for relative compaction may be performed by the City or its designee. The cost of this work shall be charged to the permittee under the terms of the encroachment permit.

The permittee may arrange tests for relative compaction of backfill material when ordered by the City provided relative compaction tests are performed by a qualified materials testing laboratory and test results are submitted to the City forty-eight hours in advance of permanent paving operation.

7. Unless permanent paving is effected immediately upon completion of trench backfill operations, the permittee shall place temporary bituminous resurfacing two inches in thickness over the backfill material. At major intersections and other critical locations a greater thickness may be ordered by the City. In sidewalk areas, the temporary bituminous resurfacing shall be a minimum of one inch in thickness. Temporary bituminous resurfacing shall conform to Caltrans Standard Specifications, 1988, and commonly accepted construction standards. The permittee shall regularly inspect and maintain temporary bituminous resurfacing until the excavation is permanently paved. Loose rock and other debris generated from temporary resurfacing operations shall be immediately removed from the worksite.

1. The replacement of permanent paving shall be effected within twenty-one days of placement of temporary surfacing (weather permitting).

2. All permanent paving shall be placed in such a manner as to extend at least six inches beyond the trench edge on both sides. The sawcuts for this “T” shaped trench detail shall be made immediately prior to the permanent paving operations or after the placement of temporary cold asphalt.

3. Pavement outside of the original trench limits damaged by the permittee’s operations shall be removed by saw-cutting in lines perpendicular or parallel to the original trench lines. No diagonal cuts will be permitted.

4. Replacement of trench paving shall match the adjacent pavement section in type and thickness but shall be no less than four inches in thickness. The finished pavement grade shall match that of the existing pavement so as to be imperceptible to passengers in passing vehicles.

5. When asphalt concrete is placed in more than one course, the base course shall be constructed with a uniform surface to a minimum of one and one-half inches below the elevation of the finished surface and not more than two inches below the finished surface and no course shall be placed in a thickness greater than two inches. Unless authorized by the City in writing, the permittee shall complete trench resurfacing operations to finished grade the same day the base course is placed.

6. Placement of the final course of asphalt concrete paving shall be performed when the preceding course has cooled to the extent that it does not displace under the permittee’s equipment such as, but not limited to, asphalt delivery trucks and paving machinery.

7. Upon completion of paving operations the permittee shall immediately replace all pavement markings and traffic striping damaged or removed by his operations. The restoration of permanent pavement marking and traffic striping shall conform to Caltrans Standard Specifications, 1988.

8. Fabric reinforcement removed by the permittee’s operations shall be replaced as authorized by the City.

9. The replacement of portland cement concrete pavement may require the installation of steel dowels as directed by the City. Steel dowels shall be #4, grade 40 billet reinforcing steel conforming to ASTM A 615. Steel dowels shall be twelve inches in length, evenly placed and securely embedded six inches into the existing concrete pavement with epoxy grout or approved equal.

10. The replacement of paving in streets or sidewalks constructed of a special material or color shall be replaced in kind. Prior to placing special materials or colors, the permittee shall provide a finished four-square foot sample of the material and/or color intended to be replaced for approval by the City.

11. Replacement of concrete base in roadway trenches shall be high early strength concrete. Concrete base shall be class 660-A-3750 containing an admixture of three pints of calcium chloride solution per cubic yard of concrete. Maximum allowable slump shall be four inches. Concrete base shall be thoroughly vibrated and leveled to an even surface. Unless specifically authorized by the City, concrete base shall be allowed to cure a minimum of twenty-four hours before placement of asphalt concrete paving section.

12. The permittee shall not allow water used for the flushing or cleaning of concrete transit mix vehicles and/or concrete mixers and their accompanying chutes to be deposited into freshly placed concrete or formwork or into the City roadway or storm sewer system.

13. When any portion of the curb at a legal pedestrian crosswalk or any portion of the sidewalk in immediate

1. Private and public improvements damaged by the permittee’s operations shall be replaced to the satisfaction of the City.

2. Damage occurring to street lighting and/or traffic signal installations shall be reported immediately to the City. Permanent repairs or replacement of damaged portions of street lighting and/or traffic signal installations, resulting from the permittee’s operations, shall be the permittee’s responsibility. The permittee shall not perform any repairs to City electrical facilities, damaged by his operations, except in the presence of a representative of the City. (Ord. 98-5 §§ 1-13, 1998; Ord. 92-1 § 1, 1992.)