Title 8 PUBLIC WORKS
Chapter 8.03 ENCROACHMENTS, OBSTRUCTIONS AND EXCAVATIONS
8.03.010 Definitions.
I. "Encroachment" shall mean any tower, pole, pole line, pipe, pipe
line, fence, billboard, landscaping, stand or building, or any structure or
object of any kind or character not particularly mentioned in this Section,
which is placed in, under or over any portion of the entire width of right of
way of a City street, whether or not such entire area is actually used for
street purposes.
A. "Fence" shall mean any obstruction of whatever
material or composition which is designed, intended or used to protect, defend
or obscure the interior property of the owner thereof from the view, trespass or
passage of others upon that property.
B. "Hedge" shall mean any group
of shrubs planted in a line or in groups so that the branches of any one plant
are intermingled or form contact with the branches of any other plant in the
line.
C. "Roadway" shall be as provided in the Vehicle Code of the
State of California.
D. "Safety Zone" shall be as provided in the
Vehicle Code of the State of California.
E. "Shrub" shall mean a
bush, not a hedge, or a growing plant more than twelve (12) inches, but not more
than ten (10) feet tall, standing singly and not of such character as to need
annual replacement.
F. "Sidewalk" shall be as provided in the Vehicle
Code of the State of California.
G. "Street or Highway" shall be as
provided in the Vehicle Code of the State of California.
H. "Trees"
shall mean any growing plant exceeding ten (10) feet in height, whether planted
singly or as a hedge.