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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2126 Amending Code Relating to City Engineer and Public Works Director Title DesignationBILL NO. 2025-088 ORDINANCE NO. 2126 AN ORDINANCE APPROVING AND ADOPTING REVISIONS TO CERTAIN SECTIONS OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES RELATING TO THE CITY ENGINEER AND PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR TITLE DESIGNATION BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE, MISSOURI, AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1 — AMENDMENTS. That the Board of Aldermen hereby approves and adopts the revisions to various sections of the Code of Ordinances as set forth in the document attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference as Exhibit "A", entitled "City Engineer Title Change." Exhibit "A" reflects amendments to existing provisions of the Code, with deletions shown in strikethrough text and new language shown as underlined text. SECTION 2— EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after the date of its passage and approval. BE IT REMEMBERED that the above was read two times by heading only, PASSED AND APPROVED by a majority of the Board of Aldermen and APPROVED by the Mayor of the City of Riverside this 18ih day of November 2025. Mayor Kathleen L. Rose ATTEST: Melissa McChesney, City Clerk Ord. No. 2126 Page 1 of 8 EXHIBIT A CITY ENGINEER TITLE CHANGE Section 110.040. Appointive Officers. The City Administrator, Municipal Judge, City Prosecutor, City Clerk, Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer, Attorney, Assistant Attorneys, Engineer Public Works Director/City Engineer, Chief of Police, Fire Chief, and Secretary to the Board of Aldermen are hereby declared to be appointive officers of the City. Section 110.100. Duties of the Public Works Director/City Engineer. and of Aldermen select a person or act as City Engineer. The person or firm in the State of Missouri. The City Engineer shall ad reg see the retention and super The majority of the members elected to the Board of Aldermen shall select a person or professional engineering firm to act as Public Works Director/City Engineer. The person or firm shall be licensed in the State of Missouri. The Public Works Director/City Engineer shall advise the City in engineering and public works matters as requested by the City Administrator, shall oversee the operations of the Public Works Department, and shalt retain and supervise other engineers or consultants as necessary for specialized work. Section 250.750. Exclusion of Certain Locations/Facilities. The City may in its discretion designate certain locations or facilities in the public ways to be excluded from use for facilities, including, but not limited to, ornamental or similar specially -designed street lights, or safety or emergency facilities, or other facilities or locations which in the reasonable judgment of the Public Works Director/City Engineer do not have electrical service adequate or appropriate for the facilities or cannot safely bear the weight or wind loading thereof, or any other facility or location that in the reasonable judgment of the Public Works Director/City Engineer is incompatible with the proposed facilities or would be rendered unsafe or unstable by the installation. The City may further exclude certain other facilities that have been designated or planned for other use or are not otherwise available for use by public ways use perrnittee due to engineering, technological, proprietary, legal, or other limitations or restrictions as may be reasonably determined by the City. Section 305.050. City Traffic Engineer. A. The office of City Traffic Engineer is established. The Public Works Director/City Ord. No 2126 Page 2 of 8 Engineer or other designated City Official shall serve as City Traffic Engineer in addition to his/her other functions and shall exercise the powers and duties with respect to traffic as provided in this Title. Section 400.180. General Provisions for All Applications. H Submission Of Technical Studies. The Director of Community Development or their designees, the City Engineer Public Works Director/City Engineer, Planning and Zoning Commission or Board of Aldermen may require applicants requesting development or permit approval to submit such technical studies as may be necessary to enable the body to evaluate the application. Examples of technical studies that may be required shall include, but not be limited to, traffic studies, engineering studies, geological or hydrologic studies, environmental impact assessments or noise studies. The person or firms preparing the studies shall be subject to the approval of the Director of Community Development or their designees. The costs of preparing and reviewing all studies shall be borne by the applicant. Section 400.245.A.2. Major Subdivision. h. Notation of approval as follows: Approved for filing. Owner Date Public Works Director/City Engineer Date Section 400.260.A Land Disturbance Permit Applications. 7. Inspections. Inspections shall be made by the Public Works Director/City Engineer during each stage of fill operations and final approval shall be required upon completion of operations. Applicants shall notify the City upon commencement of the following when and as completed: rough grading; finish grading before seeding; and all re-establishment and construction work. Section 400.500.K Off -Street Parking and Loading. 3. Drainage. All off-street parking and loading areas shall be designed to not increase the rate of storm water runoff onto adjoining properties or streets. Drainage plans for off-street parking and loading areas shall be reviewed by the Public Works Ord. No. 2126 Page 3 of 8 Director/City Engineer. Section 400.500.L.2. Off -Street Parking and Loading. d. Stacking spaces shall be separated from other internal driveways with raised medians as deemed necessary by the Public Works Director/City Engineer for traffic movement or safety. Section 400.510.A.2. Driveways and Roadway Access. c. The Public Works Director/City Engineer can document, through traffic analysis, that such treatment is necessary to avoid congestion and/or unsafe conditions on the public arterial. Section 400.510.A.5. Driveways and Roadway Access. a. Arterial streets. Direct access to an arterial street shall be permitted only when the subject property has no other reasonable access to the street system and only if the Planning and Zoning Commission, with the recommendation of the Public Works Director/City Engineer, determines that the proposed access point onto the arterial street can be accommodated safely. When direct access to an arterial street is approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission, with the recommendation of the Public Works Director/City Engineer, pursuant to the requirements of this Section, the following standards shall apply. (1) Spacing from signalized intersections. All driveways providing access to arterial streets shall be constructed so that the point of tangency of the curb return radius closest to a signalized or stop sign -controlled intersection is at least two hundred fifty (250) feet from the perpendicular curb face of the intersecting street. In the event that this standard cannot be met because of an unusually narrow or shallow lot size, the Planning and Zoning Commission, with the recommendation of the Public Works Director/City Engineer, may reduce the spacing so long as the reduction does not result in an unsafe traffic condition. (2) Spacing from other (non -signalized) access points. All driveways providing access to arterial streets shall be constructed so that the point of tangency of the curb return radius closest to all non -signalized street or driveway intersections is at least two hundred (200) feet from the perpendicular curb face of the intersecting street or driveway. In the event that this standard cannot be met because of an unusually narrow or shallow lot size, the Planning and Zoning Commission, with the recommendation of the Public Works Director/City Engineer, may reduce the spacing, provided the reduction does not result in an unsafe traffic condition. b. Waivers. Waivers for these access standards may be approved by the Planning and Ord. No. 2126 Page 4 of 8 Zoning Commission with the recommendation of the Public Works Director/City Engineer, if the Public Works Director/City Engineer determines that the requested waiver will not create a serious detriment to the safety or operation of traffic on the street or roadway based on the intensity of the uses permitted within the zoning district. The Planning and Zoning Commission, with the recommendation of the Public Works Director/City Engineer, may require that the applicant for a waiver submit a traffic analysis if it is determined that such an analysis is necessary in order to render a competent decision on the requested waiver Section 400.600. Corner Visibility. On corner lots, nothing shall be erected, placed, planted or allowed to grow in such a manner as to materially impede vision between a height of two (2) feet and eight (8) feet above curb grade within the triangular area formed by an imaginary line that follows street pavement edges and a line connecting them twenty-five (25) feet from the point of intersection. This sight triangle standard may be increased by the Planning and Zoning Commission with a recommendation from the Public Works Director/City Engineer. when deemed necessary for traffic safety. Section 400.1090. Definitions. CITY ENGINEER AND PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR The Public Works Director/City Engineer or other such person as shall be appointed by the Board of Aldermen to administer these regulations. CURB LINE The line at the face of the curb nearest to the street or roadway. In the absence of a curb, the curb line shall be established by the Public Works Director/City Engineer Section 505.040 C. Application and Requirements Dealing With Permits for Installation of Pipe Line — Penalty for Violation. 1 Applicant shall pay the City Engineer, Acting City Engineer or such as istant as may be designated by him/her, a reasonable fee for engineering inspection and such other services as they may require. 2. Applicant shall restore all streets and roads to as good condition as existed prior to the installation of the pipe line. 3. Applicant shall be responsible for the maintenance of proper barricades, warning lights, signs and flagmen if deemed necessary by the Public Works Director/City Engineer or Acting City Engineer for the protection of the public. Ord No. 2126 Page 5 of 8 Section 510.010 Standards, Specifications and Design Criteria. A. Any person who erects, constructs, reconstructs, moves or alters within the City of Riverside, Missouri, a sidewalk, street, thoroughfare, road or any form thereof, or sidewalks, sewers, streetlights, water lines, storm drainage systems or any similar type of work shall be subject to Kansas City Metropolitan Chapter American Public Works Association Standards, Specifications and Design Criteria or as approved by the Public Works Director/City Engineer. Section 510.060. Deposit Prerequisite to Permit. B. Withdrawal. Any person desiring to withdraw the deposit shall notify the City Official in charge of streets who shall thereupon certify to the Director of Public Works Public Works Director/City Engineer as to the amount of unexpended balance of such deposit, together with a statement of any charge due the City growing out of any liability herein provided for, and after deducting all lawful charges due or to become due the City for any liability hereunder, the balance shall be returned to such person. Section 510.090. Requirement of Drilling in Certain Public Ways. The Public Works Director/City Engineer is authorized to post with the City Clerk a list of streets where no cutting can take place and where drilling under the public way is required. On those streets the applicant is required to drill under the public way in a manner approved by the City Engineer. Section 510.140. Streets and Sidewalks, Depositing Debris on — Hauling Permit — Fee — Bond — Penalty for Violation. A. Spilling Material. No person shall deposit, track or permit to be deposited in any manner upon the surface of any street, alley, avenue, highway, footway, sidewalk, parkway or other public space within the corporate limits of the City of Riverside, any dirt, earth, rock, clay, sand, shale, concrete cement, structural steel, debris or rubbish. If any such deposit occurs, it shall be the duty of every person procuring such permit to remove any dirt, earth, rock, clay, sand, shale, concrete, cement, structural steel, debris or rubbish or other material deposited, spilled or dropped on any street in the performance of the work contemplated in the permit and to restore such street to its former condition to the satisfaction of the Director of-Rub-l-i.e-Wercs Public Works Director/City Engineer within twenty-four (24) hours after same has been deposited, spilled or dropped as aforesaid. C. Permit Required. Application shall be made to the Building Official for a hauling permit. The request for permit must be approved by the D r City Engineer Public Works Director/City Engineer. Ord. No. 2126 Page 6 of 8 Section 700.010. Public Sewers — Rates to Be Charged for the Use and Service of. D Water Meter Required. The quantity of water used on any premises furnished with sanitary sewer services by the sewer system of the City shall be measured by the water meter or meters serving the premises. provided however, that if any occupant or owner of any premises connected with the sewer system of the City shall not have a water meter installed on his/her premises measuring all water received thereon from all sources, then such occupant or owner shall, at his/her expense, install and maintain on said premises a water meter or meters satisfactory to the City Engineer or other designated representative of the City, which meter shall measure all water received on said premises from all sources. The Public Works Director/City Engineer or such other representative of the City shall have access to the premises of such customer at all reasonable times for the purpose of inspection and testing said water meter or meters and reading the records thereof. Billing Procedure. The Public Works Director/City Engineer, the City Clerk, or such other officers, representatives or collecting agencies of the City as may be designated from time to time, shall cause all bills for sewer services to be rendered monthly as services accrue. All bills shall be due and payable from and after the date the bills are rendered, at the office of the City Clerk or other place designated by the Board of Aldermen, during regular hours of business. The City's representatives preparing such bills shall calculate the amount of each bill for sewer services and render such customary bill for such sewer services. F Connection Fee. Application for sewer services to premises not connected with the City sewer system shall be made to the Public Works Director/City Engineer accompanied by a connection fee of two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) for each sewer connection. If the application is for premises upon which a duplex is located, and only one (1) sewer connection is required for both units in the duplex, then a single connection fee of two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) shall be submitted. Provided however, if a separate sewer connection is provided for each unit in the duplex, then a connection fee of two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) must be submitted for each such connection. This fee is a non-refundable connection charge. Section 700.060. Public Sewers, Breaking Into, Connecting Into or Maintaining a Connection With Any Sewer, Permit Required — Penalty for Violation. B. Prerequisites. The following prerequisites shall be required. 1. A written application shall have been filed with the City Clerk on a form to be furnished by the City on which is set forth the approximate locations in length and number of sewer connection wyes to be provided; the approximate location from existing manholes where a connection is proposed to be made to the existing sewage system; and such other information as shall be required by the Public Works Director/City Engineer er Acting City Engineer. ,Jrd. No. 2126 Page 7 of 8 2. Such application shall include in the agreement of the applicants that the work will be done in a manner satisfactory to the Public Works Director/City Engineer and that applicant will, at his/her own expense, make any repairs or redo such work if upon inspection by the Public Works Director/City Engineer it shall be necessary because of variance from said plans and specifications. 3. Such application shall contain the representation and agreement of the applicant to accept the provisions of the "Cooperative Agreement for Reciprocal Sewer Service" entered into between the City and the City of Kansas City, Missouri, as authorized by Ordinance No. 343-1 of the City, and to pay all sewer service charges as may be assessed by the City from time to time, and to furnish to the City upon completion of such sewer construction and prior to usage thereof, "as - built" plans prepared by applicant's engineer upon standard size sheets, as determined by the Public Works Director/City Engineer or Acting City Engineer, showing in detail the location of all house connections wyes in distance from manholes whether house connections are actually connected or wyes inserted for future use. Such application shall be accompanied by an application fee in the amount of fifty dollars ($50.00) for proposed sewers of less than one thousand (1,000) lineal feet in length, plus ten cents ($.10) per lineal foot for all lengths in excess of one thousand (1,000) feet. This application fee shall be for the purpose of reimbursing the City for its cost for engineering review of the plans submitted by the applicant, periodic inspection of the work during the construction period if deemed necessary by the Public Works Director/City Engineer and a final inspection of the work upon completion of the construction. If a permit is refused to the applicant, fifty percent (50%) of such application fee shall be refunded to the applicant by the City. Section 705.020 Definitions. As used in this Chapter, the following terms shall have these prescribed meanings: AUTHORIZED ENFORCEMENT AGENCY The Codes Enforcement Officer and/or the Public Works Director/City Engineer of the City of Riverside, Missouri, who are authorized to enforce this Chapter. Ord. No 2126 Page 8 of 8