Licensed landscape contractors and utility companies, upon written application to and approval by the Department, may be granted continuing encroachment permits to perform landscaping, planting, trimming of trees, and landscaping maintenance in public rights-of-way and highways without securing a new encroachment permit for each separate job. Homeowners associations doing or causing landscaping work to be done must obtain a permit in accordance with this chapter. Individual and private residents doing work adjacent to their own residences need not obtain a permit but must not interfere with traffic and create any dangerous condition. Any work performed in public rights-of-way or highways shall comply with city standard specifications for planting and landscaping. Permission granted to a homeowner’s association, licensed contractor, or utility company shall continue until revoked. The Department may revoke any permit issued under this section for non-conformance with the provisions of this chapter or any other applicable regulation.
(Prior Code, Art. 18-5)