HomeMy WebLinkAbout1983-2698 RESTICTING SITE VIEW OBSTRUCTIONS AT INTERSECTING STREETS ORDINANCE NO-. 26 9 8
AN ORDINANCE relating to City streets and sidewalks; restricting
site view obstructions •at intersecting streets; and
amending Section 8.80.040 of the City of Yakima
Municipal Code.
010 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA:
Section 1. Section 8.80.040 of the City of Yakima Municipal
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
"8.80.040 Restrictions On Obstructions At Intersectin.
Streets. On property at any corner formed by intersecting
streets it is unlawful to install, set out, or maintain, or
to allow the installation, setting out, or maintenance of,
or to permit any sign, hedge, trees, shrubbery, natural
growth or other obstruction to view to be higher than two
feet above the level of the center of the adjacent inter-
section within the area bounded by the centerlines of the
adjacent intersecting streets, extending from such point
of intersection to points extending along said centerlines
eighty feet from said point of intersection and a straight
line connecting said latter points; provided, at intersections
where traffic is controlled by four-way traffic control
lights, the area within which the unobstructed view shall
be maintained shall be bounded by lines determined by the
sight distance from a point representing the normal stopped
position of a car approaching the intersection, as that
position is determined by the Traffic Engineer, to a point
eighty feet left and eighty feet right along the intersecting
street from the intersection of the two centerlines."
Section 2. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect
thirty days after its passage, approval and publication as pro-
vided by law and by the City Charter.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, signed and approved this\
day of a , 1983.
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Mayor
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