A. This Chapter shall apply to the maintenance, repair, construction, reconstruction or removal of sidewalks, gutters, pavements, driveways and curbs, the installation of storm and sanitary drainage facilities, water mains, pipes, conduits, tunnels, hydrants, and other necessary works and appliances for providing water service, parkway trees, and street lighting facilities in front of properties in any block where a sidewalk, gutter, pavement, driveway, the installation of storm and sanitary sewer drainage facilities, water mains, pipes, conduits, tunnels, hydrants, and other necessary works and appliances for providing water service, parkway trees, and street lighting facilities, or curb, or all of them.
B. This Chapter shall apply to property fronting on, or otherwise adjacent to, or in conjunction with any street, arterial or collector street section.
C. This Chapter shall apply to driveway construction, reconstruction, or removal and curb infill in front of a vacant lot, unimproved property, or where an existing driveway no longer serves any development on a lot or property.
D. Definitions.
As used in this Chapter:
1. "Sidewalks or curbs" includes gutters, driveways, pavement to the center line of the street, full pavement in alleys, storm and sanitary drainage facilities, water mains, pipes, conduits, tunnels, hydrants, and other necessary works and appliances for providing water service, paving to provide a parking lane on arterial or collector street sections, parkway trees, and street lighting facilities.
2. "Fronting and facing" means abutting in the case of property adjoining an alley improvement. In the case of street lighting, in determining how much of the front footage of a block has been improved, the front footage of property benefiting from existing installations may be included regardless of the side of the street on which the installation has been constructed.
3. "Block" means property facing one side of any street between the next intersecting streets or between the terminus of a dedicated right-of-way of a street and an intersecting street. Street does not include an alley or other right-of-way unless it is of same width as a regular residential minimum-width street. approved as part of a master plan of circulation or streets by the City. In the case of an alley, block means property facing both sides of any alley between the next intersecting streets or alleys, or between the terminus of an alley and an intersecting street. In the case of street lighting, block means property facing the side of any street on which the improvement is to be constructed between the next intersecting streets on the side to be improved or between the terminus of a dedicated right-of-way of a street and a street intersecting the side to be improved; or property facing the side of any street on which the improvement is to be constructed between the next intersecting streets on the side to be improved or between the terminus of a dedicated right of way of a street and a street intersecting the side to be improved and the property facing the opposite side of the street. Where a block exceeds 1,000 feet in length, a length of frontage of 1,000 feet constitutes a block as used in this Chapter, if so designated by the Director of Development Services. A determination by the Director of Development Services of such a 1,000-foot block establishes a block and cannot later be changed to include a portion of said 1,000-foot block in another block
4. "Driveway" means a paved portion of a public street providing an unobstructed passage from the roadway to an off street area used for driving, servicing, parking, or otherwise accommodating motor vehicles.
5. "Cost, construction cost," or variants thereof, means and includes the actual cost of construction of the work and any incidental or administrative expenses.
6. "Superintendent of Streets" means the Director of Development Services of the City of San Bernardino or his designee.
E. This Chapter shall apply to the removal of existing curbs and gutters, and construction of new curbs and gutters and fill-in street paving, as required to match adjoining curb alignments, for parcels with a frontage of less than 300 feet.
(Ord. MC-1027, 9-09-98; Ord. MC-691, 12-19-89; Ord. MC-796, 7-02-91)