(a) No person shall place or cause to be placed anywhere upon any street or sidewalk, and no person owning, occupying or having control of any premises, shall suffer to remain in front thereof upon the sidewalk of the street next to such premises, anything which shall restrict the public use thereof.
(b) This section shall not apply to:
(1) Goods or merchandise in actual course of receipt, delivery or removal.
(2) Lamp posts or hydrants erected by permission of the city engineer.
(3) Ornamental trees planted along outer line of the sidewalk and within the curb, and barriers for the protection of the same.
(4) Materials used in the construction or repair of any building during the existence of a written permit issued by the city engineer.
(5) Parking and directional signs erected by authority of the council.
(6) Newsracks for which a required permit has been obtained in accordance with Chapter 9.79.
(7) Chairs, benches, or tables placed pursuant to, and in compliance with the terms and conditions of, a valid encroachment permit.
(8) A special sales event involving the display, exhibition, advertisement, or sale of merchandise, goods, or wares upon a portion of the public sidewalk in such a fashion as to not prevent or render hazardous the passage of pedestrians, and not exceeding fifty percent of the width of each sidewalk and held in an area of the city in which not less than one-half of the frontage thereof is in a commercial or industrial zone and to which a majority of proprietors of the businesses thereof within each particular area affected nearby have consented, and which is sponsored solely by such proprietors or an organization to which they belong. Such special sales events must be authorized pursuant to a valid encroachment permit, and shall not exceed three consecutive days nor occur in the same block more than twice in any one calendar year. Exhibition, display, advertising, or sale of merchandise, wares and goods is prohibited except by those persons occupying business premises immediately adjacent to the area in which such exhibition, display, advertisement, or sale is to occur.
(Ord. 4531 § 3, 1998: Ord. 4405 § 2, 1997: prior code § 20.05)