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ORDINANCE NO. 641
AN ORDINANCE ADDING SECTIONS 1380, 1380.1, 1380.2, 1380.3,
13817 1382, 1383, and 1384 TO THE ORDINANCE CODE OF THE
CITY OF BURLINGAME AND REQUIRING THAT A PERMIT BE OBTAINED
PRIOR TO ANY ALTERATION OF A PUBLIC STREET; PROVIDING
STANDARDS FOR ISSUANCE OF PERMITS; FIXING THE AUTHORITY OF
THE CITY ENGINEER OVER OPERATIONS WITHIN ITS PURVIEW AND
REPEALING SECTION 1246 OF SAID ORDINANCE CODE
The City Council of the City of Burlingame does ordain
as follows:
SECTION 1. The Ordinance Code of the City of Burlingame
is hereby amended by adding new Sections 1380 to 1384 inclusive
providing for the issuance of permits to be obtained prior to
the construction or alteration of any sidewalk, curb, curb -cut,
driveway or street in the City of Burlingame, which said sections
shall read and provide as follows:
"Section 1380
Permit Required
No person, firm or corporation shall construct, recon-
struct, repair, alter or grade any sidewalk, curb, curb -cut,
driveway or street on the public streets without first obtaining
a permit for such work from the City Engineer.
Section 1380.1 Application
An application for a permit for such work shall be filed
with the City Engineer showing:
1. Name and address of the owner or managing agent of the
property abutting the proposed work area;
2. Name and address of the person or firm doing the work;
3. Location of the work area, including lot, block and sub-
division;
4. Attached plans or drawings showing details of the proposed
alteration;
5. Such other information as the City Engineer shall find
reasonably necessary to the determination of whether a
permit shall issue,
Section 1380.2 Fees
Filing fees shall be paid by the applicant in accordance
with the following table:
Sidewalks and Driveways
1-25
sq.
ft.
$1.00
25-250
sq.
ft.
$2,00
over 250
sq,
ft.
$3.00
Curbs
1-10
linear
ft.
$1.00
11-50
linear
ft.
$2.00
over 50
linear
ft.
$3.00
When sidewalks, curbs, curb -cuts or driveways are to be altered
simultaneously only one permit and fee is required.
Section 1380.3 Exemptions
a. Fees as outlined above in this section will not be
charged when sidewalks, curbs and driveways are a part of public
improvements constructed under any special assessment district
proceeding or are a part of a land subdivision where such work
is required under a subdivision agreement to which the City of
Burlingame is a party.
b. No permit or fee shall be required of any person holding
a franchise to use the city streets granted by the City Council
of the City of Burlingame pursuant to the provisions of the
Franchise Act of 1937.
Section 1381
Specifications
The City Engineer shall prepare and keep on file in his
office standard specifications for materials and quantities of
materials and shall also prepare and keep on file in his office
details of required designs for curbs, gutters, sidewalks and
streets and all curb -cuts, driveways and sidewalks shall meet
these specifications and designs.
Section 1382 Location and Width of Driveways
a. No driveway shall be constructed or reconstructed which
is less than twenty-two (22) feet from another driveway, except
that this requirement may be waived by the City Engineer in the
event that an existing driveway is so located that this require-
ment would create a hardship or where a single curb -cut is made
to provide driveways for contiguous lots or parcels of land,
b. No driveway in districts classified by this Code as
residential shall exceed 25% of the width of the lot.
c. No driveway in districts classified by this Code as
commercial or .professional shall exceed 25% of the width of the
lot. When driveways are constructed on both streets on corner
lots, the total width of the driveways shall not exceed 45% of
the total of the lot frontage.
d. No driveway in districts classified by this Code as
industrial shall exceed 25% of the width of the lot or of the
total frontage where a single use is made of more than one lot or
parcel of land.
e. The City Engineer may, if the health, welfare and safety
of the public will not be unreasonably impaired, grant a special
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permit for the construction of driveways having widths in excess
of those widths hereinabove provided for in this section as
follows:
(1) In residential districts he may grant a special permit
for a driveway not exceeding 70% of the lot frontage in order
to give access to multipule garages in apartment buildings.
(2) In commercial districts he may grant a special permit
for a driveway not exceeding 701/16 of the lot frontage, including
the frontage on each street in the case of a corner lot or in
the case of a lot fronting on two streets, in order to give
access to areas used for the off-street parking of motor vehicles
for off-street loading zones, or for gasoline stations.
(3) In residential districts he may grant a special permit
for a driveway not exceeding 70% of the entire lot frontage
where off-street parking facilities are installed between the
property line and the building,
Section 1383
Variances by Planning Commission
When a variance, use permit or special permit is granted
by the Planning Commission and additional driveways or parking
areas are required by the Commission, then the Commission may
increase the allowable driveway percentage as a condition for
the permitted use.
Section 1384 State Highways
No person, firm or corporation shall construct, recon-
struct, repair, alter or grade any sidewalk, curb, curb -cut,
driveway or surface of any state highway as the phrase "state
highway" is defined in: the Streets and Highways Code of the
State of California without first obtaining a permit for such
work from the State Highway Engineer in addition to the permit
required by this Ordinance."
SECTION 2, Section 1246 of the Ordinance Code of the
City of Burlingame is hereby repealed.
SECTION 3. If any section, subsection, sentence or
clause or phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held by a
court of competent jurisdiction to be unconstitutional or other-
wise invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the
remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council hereby
declares that it would have passed this ordinance, and each
section, subsection, clause, and phrase hereof, irrespective of
the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences,
clauses or phrases be declared invalid.
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SECTION 4. This Ordinance shall be published once as
required by law.
Gi�_�rti�7
E O - Mayor
I, Herbert K. White, City Clerk, do hereby certify that
the foregoing Ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting
of the City Council held on the 7th day of January ,
1957, and adopted thereafter at a regular meeting of the City
Council held on the 21st day of
by the following vote:
January
, 1957,
Ayes: Councilmen.: Byrd -Johnson -Morgan -Rooth -Thayer
Noes: Councilmen: None
Absent Councilmen: None
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HerbesiK. White - City CerT