ORDINANCE
NO. 14,314
AN ORDINANCE to amend the Municipal
Code of the City of Des Moines, Iowa, 2000, adopted by Ordinance No. 13,827,
passed June 5, 2000, and amended by Ordinance No. 14,043, passed January 28,
2002, by amending Section 2-563 of Chapter 2, Administration, Sections 74-201
and 74-202 of Chapter 74, Parks and Recreation, Section 102-666 of Chapter 102,
Streets, Sidewalks, Skywalks and Other Public Places and Section 122-15 of
Chapter 122, Vegetation, and adding and enacting a new Article VII, Flowers and
Ornamental Plantings on Right-of-Way and City property, thereof, relating to
community garden leases to allow plantings on right-of-way and city property”,
Be It Ordained by the City Council of
the City of Des Moines, Iowa:
Section 1. That the Municipal Code of the City of Des Moines, Iowa, 2000, adopted by Ordinance No. 13,827, passed June 5, 2000, and amended by Ordinance No. 14,043, passed January 28, 2002, by amending Section 2-563 of Chapter 2, Administration, Sections 74-201 and 74-202 of Chapter 74, Parks and Recreation, Section 102-666 of Chapter 102, Streets, Sidewalks, Skywalks and Other Public Places and Section 122-15 of Chapter 122, Vegetation, and adding and enacting a new Article VII, Flowers and Ornamental Plantings on Right-of-Way and City property thereof, relating to community garden leases to allow plantings on right-of-way and city property, as follows:
Sec. 2-563. Duties of city
engineer.
The
city engineer shall serve as the chief civil engineer and shall have administrative
responsibility for the following matters, subject to such administrative
procedures as may be established by the city manager:
(1) The design and construction of all city
infrastructure and building facilities included in the capital improvement
program (CIP) as adopted annually by the city council.
(2) The installation, timing and maintenance of
traffic control devices; the conduct of engineering studies of traffic
accidents and the development of remedial measures; the planning for the operation
of traffic on city streets and highways; the planning and maintenance of the
street lighting system; the planning, maintenance and operation of public
municipal parking facilities; and the issuance of permits as authorized by city
ordinances for activities occurring in the street right-of-way.
(3) Erosion control, stormwater management, and
sewer system evaluation and permitting.
(4) The operation and maintenance of the Des
Moines Regional Wastewater Reclamation Authority (WRA), WRA sewers, flow
metering facilities in the WRA system, and all sanitary sewer pumping stations
and equalization basins. The city engineer shall serve as the Des Moines
Regional Wastewater Reclamation Authority Operating Agency Director.
(5) The operation and maintenance of the city
stormwater utility. The city engineer shall serve as the director of the city
stormwater utility.
(6) All property acquisition and relocation
activities.
(7) Other related duties and functions as may be
assigned by state law, by city ordinance or council resolution, or by the city
manager.
Article
VI. Community Gardens
on
Right-of-Way and City Property
Sec.
74-201. Community garden leases.
(1) Persons or entities desiring to plant or place
flowers, plants, or shrubs on any city right-of-way or city real property shall
execute a community garden lease which identifies all areas of the proposed
planting or placement, and abide by the terms of such lease, including
insurance and indemnification responsibilities, if any, established by the city
risk manager. Persons or entities
executing a community garden lease shall be exempt from the permit requirements
of section 102-660 of this code.
(2) The community garden lease shall be denied if
such plantings or placement is likely to create a public danger or nuisance or
would be harmful to existing trees, shrubs, flowers, plants or facilities.
(3) City right-of-way means the surface and space
above and below any public street, boulevard or sidewalk and the property
between the lot lines or property lines and the curblines upon the public
streets.
Sec.
74-202. Administration.
The park and recreation director shall
be responsible for the administration of the community garden leases. The director of the park and recreation
department, or his or her designee, is authorized to execute community garden
leases on right-of-way and other city real property on behalf of the city and
may delegate any or all of his or her duties under this article.
Sec.
102-660. Persons subject to registration, permitting and licensing.
(a) Each person who occupies, uses, or seeks to
occupy or use the right-of-way or any equipment located in the right-of-way or
who has or seeks to have equipment located in any right-of-way shall register
with the department. All such registrations shall be filed with the city on or
before the registration deadline established by the city council by resolution,
notice of which deadline shall be published in advance thereof in a newspaper
of general circulation in Polk County. No
person may, after the registration deadline, construct, install, repair,
remove, or relocate equipment located in any right-of-way or perform any other
work on or use any equipment or any part thereof located in any right-of-way,
without first being registered with the department. No person shall obstruct or
excavate in any street right-of-way without obtaining appropriate permits as
required by division 2 of this article.
(b) No person shall construct a tree well in any
right-of-way unless such tree well is shown in an approved site plan and a
permit for such has been obtained pursuant to division 2 of this article.
(c) No person shall construct an irrigation system
in any right-of-way unless a permit for such has been obtained pursuant to
division 2 of this article.
(d) No person shall plant a street tree or any
ornamental plantings in the right-of-way unless either a permit for such has
been obtained pursuant to chapter 122 of this Code or a community garden lease
has been obtained pursuant to chapter 74 of this Code. Persons constructing or
maintaining tree wells or irrigation systems in the right-of-way or planting or
maintaining street trees or ornamental plantings in the right-of-way shall not
be deemed to use or occupy the right-of-way for purposes of this division and
shall not be required to register such use.
(e) A person having a franchise from the city for
the provision of a utility service shall be required to register as provided in
this division, and pay an annual management fee, obtain right-of-way permits
and pay right-of-way permit fees to excavate in or obstruct the right-of-way as
provided in division 2 of this article. However, if such franchise provides for
the payment of a franchise fee, the franchisee shall not be required to pay such
annual management fee or permit fees.
(f) City utilities and enterprises which occupy
and use right-of-way for the provision of municipal utility and enterprise
services city shall be required to register as provided in this division, and
pay annual management fees, obtain right-of-way permits and pay right-of-way
permit fees to excavate in or obstruct the right-of-way as provided in division
2 of this article. City work crews and city contractors performing work in the
right-of-way on behalf of the city shall be required to obtain right-of-way
permits and pay right-of-way permit fees to excavate in or obstruct the
right-of-way as provided in division 2 of this article.
(g) Governmental entities or agencies of the
federal government, the state, or the county which occupy and use right-of-way
for the provision of communications or utility services for governmental
purposes shall be required to comply with the registration requirements of this
division, except the insurance and bonding requirements associated therewith.
Such governmental entities and agencies shall be required to pay annual
management fees and obtain right-of-way permits and pay right-of-way permit
fees to excavate in or obstruct the right-of-way as provided in division 2 of
this article. Such governmental entities or agencies shall be exempt from the
licensing requirements of division 3 of this article.
Sec.
122-15. Permit to plant in streets.
(a) No person shall plant or set out any tree in
or on any public highway, street or boulevard or other city property without
first obtaining a permit from the forestry division, which shall designate
where such plantings may be done.
(b) The permit shall be denied if such planting is
likely to create a public danger or nuisance or would be harmful to existing
trees, shrubs, flowers, plants or facilities.
(c) A person obtaining the permit shall be exempt
from the permit requirements of section 102-660 of this Code.
Sec.
2. This ordinance shall be in full
force and effect from and after its passage and publication as provided by law.
FORM
APPROVED:
Ann DiDonato,
Assistant City Attorney
T. M. Franklin Cownie, Mayor
Attest:
I, Diane Rauh, City Clerk of the City of Des Moines, Iowa, hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true copy of an ordinance (Roll Call No. 04-296), passed by the City Council of said City at a meeting held February 9, 2004 signed by the Mayor on February 9, 2004 and published as provided by law in the Business Record on February 23, 2004 Authorized by Publication Order No. 4022.
Diane Rauh, City Clerk