(A) Occupation of streets, sidewalks and parkways. No building materials shall be stored or kept on streets, parkways or sidewalks between the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. No material shall be so placed as to block or impede access to any fire hydrant, valve chamber, manhole or catch basin, or obstruct the gutter or waterway of any street.
(B) Bypass walk. Before any sidewalk is obstructed by scaffolding or other material, or is removed, a safe hard-surface temporary bypass walk shall be constructed and maintained. Pedestrians shall be protected from vehicular traffic by a barricade or fence. During overhead construction, pedestrians shall further be protected from falling debris by solid overhead planking.
(C) Barricades required. No person may use public property for storage of construction materials unless the materials are shielded by substantial and suitable barricades and sufficient warning lights or flares to guard and protect all traffic and passersby.
(D) Damage to barricading. It shall be unlawful to move, remove, turn off, extinguish, diminish or disturb any light or barricade required by division (C) above.
(E) Mortar beds. Mortar beds or boxes shall be so placed and guarded as to protect the clothing of persons passing, and shall not be located upon any street or public way. Mortar beds or boxes shall not be placed upon any public sidewalk, and no mortar shall be mixed upon any public pavement or sidewalk surface.
(F) Dust control. It shall be unlawful to cut or grind any concrete, masonry, stone, rock or similar material without a dust collection system or wet methods on any private or public property in the village.
(G) Material on public property. As soon as construction work is completed, all remaining construction material shall be promptly removed from public property and the streets and sidewalks shall be cleared and restored to the same condition as before the construction work was started.
(H) Removal of rubbish - public property. Rubbish or excavated material which is deposited on the sidewalks or streets shall be removed each day, as rapidly as produced. When materials or rubbish causing dust are handled they must be well wetted down.
(I) Removal of rubbish - private property. Rubbish or materials shall not be thrown, dropped or swept from any floor above the ground or from any roof, but shall either be carried or lowered in such a manner as not to cause dust.
(J) Public inconvenience. All building operations shall be conducted in a manner that least inconveniences the general public and abutting property owners.
(K) Protection of passersby. Where during construction an excavation or other hazard exists, the contractor shall provide and maintain a barricade or fence for the protection of passersby.
(L) Closing streets. When necessary for the public safety, the Director of Fire and Building may temporarily close sidewalks, streets and places adjacent to any unsafe or unstable structures.
(Ord. 1123, passed 1-28-20)