HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 0459CITY OF MEDINA
ORDINANCE NO. 459
AN ORDINANCE adopting Sight visibility Standards for
street intersections.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MEDINA, WASHINGTON DO
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1: A new section in the Medina Municipal Code
establish nig -s ggFE visibility standards is hereby adopted to read
as follows:
9-8.02. Sight Visibility Standards Adopted: The
American Association 0 State Hig way an Transportation Officals
manual, 1985 edition, Stopping Sight Distance Standards are
hereby adopted for all City of Medina intersections.
9-8.04. Sight Areas Established: Triangular "sight
areas" shall be estaGlished at the interesections of all streets,
avenues or highways in the City.
9-8.06. Obstruction of Intersections: It is unlawful
to park vehicles or to install, se ou , a ow, or maintain any
sign, hedge, shrubbery, natural growth or other obstruction to
the view, higher than three feet six inches above the level of
the center of the adjacent intersection within the triangular
sight area. This provision Shall not extend to portions of now
existing permanent structures under roof, public utility poles,
trees trimmed (to the trunk) to a line at least eight feet above
the level of the intersection, saplings or plant species of open
growth habits and not planted in the form of a hedge which are so
planted or trimmed as to leave, at all seasons, a clear and
unobstructed cross -view, supporting members or appurtenances to
existing structures, official warning signs, or signals under
signs mounted more than ten feet above the ground whose supports
do not consitute an obstruction, nor to places where the contour
of the ground is such that there can be no cross -visibility at
such intersection.
9-8.08. Obstruction Declared Nuisance: Every
obstruction of the sort prohibited in Section -8.06 hereafter
installed or permitted to remain within the triangular sight
areas shall be deemed a nuisance subject to the penalty and
abatement procedure provided in this code.
Section 2: Effective Date: This ordinance shall take
effect five (5) days a ter its pu ication.
PASSED BY CITY COUNCIL on the 12th day of October, 1987
and signed in authentication of its passage the same day.
H. .JTe King, r4ayor
Approved as to form:
&RA wines , Ci�t�v Attorney
Attest:
Argan�t R. Davis
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