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On property at any corner formed by intersecting streets, it shall be unlawful for the owner or occupant to install, set out, maintain or to permit the installation or maintenance of any sign, fence, hedge, tree, shrubbery, natural growth, building, construction or other obstructions to a clear view to a height greater than three feet above the level of the center of the adjacent intersection within the triangle of land formed on the corner of the lot by measuring a distance of 15 feet along each lot line from the street-property line intersection. It is hereby declared that any such installation or construction within the clear view triangle as herein defined is a public nuisance and encumbrance and obstruction to the public streets.
(1958 Code, § 161.02) (Ord. 230, passed 5-5-1960)
The foregoing provision of this Article II shall not apply to existing permanent buildings, public utility poles, trees with trunks less than 12 inches in diameter and trimmed to a height at least eight feet above the level of the intersection, and shall not apply to plant species of open growth habits not planted in the form of a hedge and which are so planted and trimmed as to allow, at all seasons, a clear and unobstructed crossview; it shall not apply to supporting members of appurtenances to permanent buildings heretofore existing, to official warning signs or signals, or to signs mounted ten feet or more above the ground and whose supporting members do not constitute an obstruction as hereinbefore defined.
(1958 Code, § 161.02A) (Ord. 230, passed 5-5-1960)
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