Ordinance 1979-04ORDINANCE NO. 79-4
AN ORDINANCE OF T~ CITY OF GILROY AMENDING SECTIONS
20.60 AND 20.61 OF THE GILROY CITY CODE SO AS TO PROHIBIT
OBSTRUCTION OF CITY STP~ETS AND SIDEWALKS.
THE COUNCIL OF T~ CITY OF GILROY DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION I. Sections 20.60 and 20.61 of the Gilroy City Code
are hereby amended to read as follows:
ARTICLE VIII.
HEDGES, SHRUBS, ETC., OBSTRUCTING VISIBILITY
AT STREETilNTERSECTIONS OR OBSTRUCTING PASSAGE
OVER STREETS AND SIDEWALKS
Sec. 20.60.
Height of hedges, shrubs and other obstructions at
'the co~-~er'$ 'o__f] intersecting sn~t~] --
It shall be unlawful for the owner or occupant of any
corner lot or premises in the city to install, set out, main-
tain, 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 ibetween 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 inter-
section.
Sec. 20.61. Obstruction~ t__o. pas. sage over streets and sidewalks.
Ie shall be unlawfu1 for the owner or occupant of any
lot or premises in the city to install, set out, maintain, per-
mit 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,i street, or street gutter area.
SECTION II: This ordinance shall take effect and be in full
force thirty (30) days from and after its adoption and approval.
vote:
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 5th day of February, 1979, by the following
AYES:
COUNCILMEMBERS:
HUGHAN, LINK, PATE, STOUT and
GOODRICH
NOES:
COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: CHILDERS and CUNNINGHAM
city Clerk
ORDINANCE NO. 79-4
I, SUSANNE E. STEIRMETZ, City Clerk of the City of Gilroy, do hereby
certify that the attached Ordinance No. 79-4 is an original ordinance,
duly adopted by the Council of the City of Gilroy at a regular meeting of
said Council held on the
5th day o~: February 19 79 at which
meeting a quorum was present.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have herelunto set my hand and affixed the
official seal of the City of Gilroy, :this
~'ity Clerk of the City of Gilr
(s ,~a I )
9th day of February , 1979 ·