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The Standard Specifications and technical provisions contained herein are minimum standards for <br />work performed within the public way. Occasionally, the City will require additional provisions <br />specific to the individual permit. These special provisions will be listed on the approved permit and <br />will then supplement or supersede the Standard Specifications. <br />3.B TECHNICAL PROVISIONS (PLACEMENT OF FACILITIES) <br />All construction and maintenance work performed by the permittee shall be done in a manner <br />designed to leave all areas in which work was performed in a condition as near as possible to, if not <br />better than, that which existed before such work began. A "patched" appearance is visually <br />detrimental.to the abutting properties, and efforts from both the permittee and the City should be <br />made to avoid this wherever possible. <br />Placement of facilities within the public way shall conform to plans, codes, administrative rules, and <br />the Standard Specifications adopted by the City. For purposes of convenience and clarification, key <br />provisions are supplemented and/or applied as follows: <br />1. While private citizens may be issued a permit to perform work within the public way, only <br />licensed, bonded contractors may perform work which involves the placement or <br />removal of street or alley~avement,~lacement of embankment fill, or which reduires <br />the use of traffic control devices. <br />2. All underground pipes and conduits in the public way shall be laid a minimum depth of 30 <br />inches below street or alley grade and 30 inches below. ground level in public utility <br />easements, unless otherwise approved by the City Manager or designee. EC 7.302 <br />Where utility placement is within a public way scheduled for construction or reconstruction, <br />all underground pipes and conduits shall be laid a minimum depth. of 30 inches below the <br />design grade of the new construction if such grade has been established. <br />Exceptions to the 30 inch minimum depth requirement may be allowed under special <br />circumstances. Examples of possible qualifying circumstances include: gravity flow <br />systems which, due to .topography or site constraints, must be shallower to maintain <br />minimum slope; unavoidable grade conflicts with existing underground facilities; and site, <br />topography and/or subsurface conditions prohibitive of excavation at standard depth. <br />3. The primary locations for utility placement are in a public utility easement adjacent to the <br />public right-of--way and beneath sidewalk locations. Alternate locations may be allowed <br />within the right-of--way if topography or site conditions make use of the primary locations <br />infeasible. Underground utility pipes, conduits, and wires shall not be installed longitude- <br />pally in the planting strip between the curb and the sidewalk unless an exception is granted <br />Utility & R/W Permit Policy <br />EXhlbit A - 23 r:\adminord\rules\OOrowdexa.wpd(09/13/00) <br />