Ordinance amending the Public Works Code to modify the exceptions to the Surface-Mounted Facility Site Permit requirement; to allow a permittee to choose to pay an “in-lieu” fee instead of installing a street tree; to allow a permittee to choose to pay an “in-lieu” fee instead of permitting the installation of a mural on its Surface-Mounted Facility; to repeal the requirements that a permittee install landscaping or pay an “in-lieu” fee and maintain the required landscaping; to repeal the requirement that an applicant for a Surface-Mounted Facility Site Permit make reasonable efforts to locate the facility on private property before submitting an application; to require Public Works to submit a report to the Board of Supervisors every two years on the number of applications for Surface-Mounted Facility Site Permits submitted and issued and on maintenance and graffiti abatement activities at existing Surface-Mounted Facilities; to amend the requirement that a permittee maintain any required street tree; and to amend the Administrative Code to require that the mural “in-lieu” fees be deposited in the Public Works Street Beautification Fund to be used to fund murals and other beautification projects in the public right-of-way.

Committee

Clerk of the Board

Introduced

April 18, 2017

Passed

October 5, 2017

Enacted

October 5, 2017

Enactment no.

198-17