CC RES 1983-0281
RESOLUTION NO. 83-28
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
RANCHO PALOS VERDES REVISING RESOLUTION 81 -88
ESTABLISHING A SIDEWALK AND DRIVEWAY APRON
MAINTENANCE COST SHARING POLICY
WHEREAS, Streets and Highways Code Section 5610 requires property
owners to maintain sidewalks and parkway areas in such a condition that the
sidewalk will not endanger persons or property and maintain it in a condition
that will not interfere with the public convenience; and
WHEREAS, Streets and Highways Code Sections 5610 et seq. contain
procedures for assessing the cost of such repairs against property owners in
the event they fail to maintain adjacent sidewalks in proper condition; and
WHEREAS, the City desires to encourage property owners to maintain
sidewalks and driveway aprons in proper condition,
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes,
DOES RESOLVE, DETERMINE AND ORDER as follows:
Section 1. In order to encourage property owners to maintain their
sidewalks and driveway aprons in proper condition, the City will pay one - fourth
the cost of repairing the sidewalk and /or driveway apron..
Section 2. Where the property owner given notice pursuant tot the
Improvement Act of 1911 of the requirement to repair a sidewalk and /or drive-
way apron elects to undertake such work in a timely fashion, the City will
issue a Highway Permit to the property owner at no charge.
Section 3. In the event the property owner fails to undertake such
repair in a timely fashion, the City shall require that the entire cost of re-
pair be borne by the property owner.
Section 4. Following completion of City initiated repairs to side-
walks and /or driveway aprons and acceptance of the repair work by the City
Council in a specific area, the City policy shall return to those outlined in
the Street and Highway Code Sections 5610 et seq. for said areas.
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 17th day of May, 1983.
ATTEST:
MAYOR
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss
CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES )
I, MARY JO LOFTHUS, City Clerk
Rancho Palos Verdes, hereby certify that
duly and regularly passed and adopted by
meeting thereof held on the 17th day of
of the City Council of the City of
the above Resolution No. 83 -28 was
the said City Council at a regular
May, 1983.
City C1 rk i
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