(A) Surface restoration shall be constructed as designated on the construction permit. A user shall notify the city’s Director of Public Works not less than two hours prior to the placement of surface restoration material. Failure to do so may result in the suspension of construction and the removal of any surface material placed without prior approval.
(B) A user shall be responsible for having all abandoned facilities removed within seven calendar days after their abandonment unless otherwise extended by the city’s Director of Public Works or unless the city’s Director of Public Works determines that such abandoned facilities should not be removed after a request is made to the city’s Director of Public Works that the facilities should not be removed.
(C) During a cessation in the construction or after completion of the construction, and in order to avoid safety hazards to vehicles and pedestrian traffic, all street and sidewalk construction shall be restored by a user within a reasonable period of time to be determined by the city’s Director of Public Works.
(D) A user shall restore property damaged or destroyed by construction on or adjacent to the right- of-way to a condition that is as good as or better than the pre-existing condition of the right-of-way or adjacent property, as determined by the city’s Director of Public Works. The city’s Director of Public Works shall reject or accept restoration within three city-business days after a user presents to the city’s Director of Public Works that the restoration is completed.
(E) Restoration shall be completed in a timely manner as specified by schedules prepared and provided by the permittee and approved by the city’s Director of Public Works.
(F) If restoration is not completed in a timely manner as specified and is not satisfactory and acceptable to the city, the city’s Director of Public Works may suspend all construction in progress; except that, relating to the restoration, including all construction previously permitted, but not complete, and the city’s Director of Public Works may suspend the approval of permits not approved until the restoration is completed in a timely manner as specified and made satisfactory and acceptable to the city.
(G) At the direction and approval of the city’s Director of Public Works, restoration by a user shall include, but not be limited to, the following, if such is damaged or destroyed as a result of right-of-way construction:
(1) All ground cover and landscaping;
(2) Manholes, hand holes, vaults, pull boxes, valve covers, clean-outs and the like;
(3) Daily back-filling, covering or barricading of all bore pits, potholes, trenches or any other holes occurring as a result of the construction on the right-of-way, unless other back-filling alternatives are approved by the city’s Director of Public Works, to the extent such daily back-filling, covering or barricading shall secure the site as safe for pedestrian or vehicular traffic, as the case may be; provided that, if the excavation is within the roadway or on or adjacent to a sidewalk, the excavation must be backfilled daily or covered with a one-inch thick steel plate with spikes welded to the underside to prevent slippage and, if greater than one inch, the upstream side shall have an asphalt ramp;
(4) Leveling all trenches and backhoe lines;
(5) Sprinkler systems;
(6) Traffic-control devices, equipment and appurtenances;
(7) Otherwise restoring the right-of-way and construction site to city specifications pursuant to this chapter and this code; and
(8) All locate flags shall be promptly removed by a user upon completion of construction.
(Ord. 131101, passed 11-23-2013) Penalty, see § 155.99