Ordinance - 991ORDINANCE NO. 991
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
WEST COVINA AMENDING CERTAIN SECTIONS OF THE WEST
COVINA MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO OBSTRUCTION OF
VISION AT INTERSECTIONS AND DRIVEWAYS AND TO THE
CARE, TRIMMING AND PRUNING OF TREES, SHRUBS, HEDGES,
ETC. IN PARKWAYS AND ON ADJACENT PRIVATE PROPERTY.
The City Council of the City of West Covina does ordain as
follows:
SECTION 1. Section 3153 of the West Covina Municipal Code
is hereby amended to read as follows:
"3153• OBSTRUCTION TO VISIBILITY AT INTERSECTIONS OR DRIVEWAYS.
No person owning, controlling or responsible for the
maintenance of any fence, wall, mound, hedge, shrubbery, or
any other obstruction which so restricts the view of pedestrian
or vehicular traffic as to cause a hazard or danger thereto,
located within the parkway portion of any public street, shall
allow or permit or cause the same to:
(1) exceed a height of twenty-four inches above the top
of curb grade level at the place where the same is situated if
it is located within a distance of thirty feet from the point
where the projected curb lines of any two or more intersecting
or intercepting streets intersect, or
(2) exceed a height of thirty-six inches above the top
of curb grade level at the place where the same is situated if
• it is located within a distance of fifteen feet from either
side of a private driveway at the point where it crosses such
parkway, provided, however, that shrubs shall not be prohibited
by this paragraph (2) if and while all foliage thereof is kept
trimmed and pruned up to a height of at least forty-eight inches
above said top of curb grade level with.plear visibility beneath
said height of forty-eight inches and does not violate any other
provision of this Code."
SECTION 2. Section 7403 of the West Covina Municipal Code
Is hereby amended to read as follows:
"7403. PLANTING, REMOVING, PRUNING, INJURING, ETC.
Except as otherwise required or expressly permitted by this
Code, no person shall cut, trim, prune, plant, remove, injure
or interfere with any tree, shrub or plant upon any street, park,
parkway or public place of the City without prior written per-
mission and approval therefor from the Director. The Director
is hereby authorized to grant such permission at his discretion,
and may grant the same subject to the condition that any removed
tree be replaced by a tree of the type designated for the street
and meeting the specifications of the Director and/or such other
conditions as may be appropriate in the circumstances. No such
permission shall be valid for a longer period than thirty days
after its date of issuance."
• SECTION 3. Section 7409 of the West Covina Municipal Code
is hereby amended to read as follows:
"7409. PREVENTING ENCROACHMENT OR HAZARD.
No person owning or controlling property abutting upon
any public street, parkway, or public place in the City, upon
which property are located any hedges, trees, shrubs or plants,
shall permit said plantings to encroach upon or to overhang the
sidewalk, parkway, curb or street in such a manner as to impede
or interfere with vehicular or pedestrian traffic, drainage flow,
or maintenance thereof, or to create a hazardous condition; and
such person shall keep said plantings trimmed as the public
convenience and this section require.
If any such person violates or fails to comply with the
requirements or provisions of this Section, he shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor and punishable accordingly; and in addition, if
any such tree, hedge, shrub or plant is not maintained and trimmed
as required by this Section within ten days after notice in writing
thereof is given to such person by the City, the same shall be
deemed a public nuisance and may be abated by the,City as such and
the cost of such abatement shall be imposed upon and collected
from such person."
SECTION 4. The West Covina Municipal Code is hereby amended
by the addition thereto of a new Section 7410 reading as follows:
"Mo. MAINTENANCE OF TREES, ETC. IN PARKWAYS.
Every person in possession or control of any property
abutting upon any parkway, whether separated therefrom by a
sidewalk or not, shall be responsible for the maintenance and
shall maintain said parkway or parkways abutting said property
free of trash and debris, shall adequately maintain and care for
any tree, hedge, shrub, plants, or grass in said parkway in a
healthy, neat and orderly condition, and shall comply with all
the requirements of Section 3153 of this Code.
If any person violates or fails to comply with the
requirements or provisions of this Section, he shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor and punishable accordingly; and in addition, if
any such tree, hedge, shrub or plant is not maintained and trimmed
as required by this Section within ten days after notice in writing
thereof is given to such person by the City, the same shall be
deemed a public nuisance and may be abated by the City as such
and the cost of such abatement shall be imposed upon and collected
from such person."
SECTION 5. Section 9220.11 of the West Covina Municipal
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
"9220.11. SAME. VISION CLEARANCE, CORNER LOTS.
All corner lots on which a front yard or other setback line
is required shall maintain a triangular area formed by the front
lot line and the side lot line on the street side and a straight
line connecting a point on each lot line above described and
distant fifteen feet from the intersection of such lot lines,
in which area no tree, fence, shrub or other physical obstruction
higher than thirty-six inches above the established curb grade
shall be permitted."
SECTION 6. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of
this ordinance and shall cause the same to be published as required by
law.
iPassed and approved this 2,7t
ay of March f, , 1967.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS.
CITY OF WEST COVINA )
• I, ROBERT FLOTTEN, City Clerk of theCity of West Covina,
do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 991 was regularly
introduced and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting of
the City Council on the 13th day of March, 1967. That, thereafter,
said ordinance was duly adopted and passed at a regular meeting of
the City Council on the 27th day of March, 1967, by the following
vote, to wit:
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AYES: Councilmen Gillum, Nichols, Snyder, Gleckman, Mayor Krieger
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
City Clerk
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