HomeMy WebLinkAboutNS-5.14 ORDINANCE NO. NS-5.14'
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING PART TWO, AND ~S MAY BE
INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE BY PART THREE~ OF ORDINANCE
.NS-5, THE SUBDIVISION ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF
S~dlATOGA, REQUIRING UNDERGROUND PUBLIC UTILITIES
WHEREAS,'~his City has heretofore under the general provisions
of Section 4.11 of Part Two of the Subdivision Ordinance of this City, and'
unde[ its general powers ~o 'c6ntrol the design and improvement of subdivisions,
established a policy in the past of requi~ing-all public utilities to be
located completely underground in subdivisions of five or more lots, and
also for four or less lots and single lots or parcels under the prOvisions
of Section 5.1 of Part Three of said Sudivision Ordinance, and
WHEREAS, this Council deems it advisable to directly establish
said policy as part of the Subdivis ion Ordinance,
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Saratoga does
hereby ordain as follows:
Section 1: Sub-section 4.12 is hereby added-to Section 4 of
Part'Two or Ordinance NS-5,
the City of Saratoga Subdivision Ordinance, to read as follows:
Section 4.12: Underground Utilities.
All public utility systems and seryice facilities
therefore, including. without limitation all electrical and tel-
ephone distribution or transmission facilities, and also all
telegraph and all CATV. distribution or transmission facilities,
if any, installed in and for the purpose of providing service
within the subdivision, shall be located and installed under-
ground and'insofar as practical shall be located in the right-
of-way of public streets, with a junction box for each lot
of the subdivision designed to carry the service drops under-
ground'~o each serviced building orlstructure. The subdivider
shall ~ake any n&cessary cost and other arrangements with each
of the 'publi~a[ilft~ompanies involved for the installation
of underground2facilities and for the relocation of existing
overhead faci~ities on the tract, and in conformance with ~the
respective operating company's rules and regulations then on
file with and approved by the State of California Public
Utilities Commission.
Excepted from the foregoing are the following:
(1) Transformers, pedestal mounted terminal boxes, meter
cabinets and concealed ducts may be situated above
ground if they are used solely for the purpose of pro-
riding service within the subdivision and are used solely
in connection with the underground transmission or
distribution lines; and
(2) Poles supporting electricity transmission lines, and
the electricity transmission lines supported by such
poles, may be situated above the surface of the ground
if the voltage carried by such lines is more than 12KV
and such lines are not connected to any distribution
line situate within the subdivision and do not ia any
way ser~e any part of the subdivision.
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(3) Poles supporting street lights, and the electrical
lines within said poles, may be situate above the
surface of the ground,.
Section 2, The second sentence of Section 3.5 of Part T~o
of Ordinance NS-5 ~nfch seutence reads as
fol lows:
'Insolaf as-practicable, all utility easements shall be
in the rear of the lots."
is hereby repealed, and in its place and stead, the following
sentence is added to said Section 3.5:
"Insolaf as practicable, all electrical and telephone
public utility facilities shall be located in the public
street rights-6~-way in the subdivision."
Section 3, It is intended by the above amendment to incorporate
the provisions of Section 4.12 of Part Two into Part
Three of Ordinance NS-5, under and by virtue of the provisions
of Section 5.1 of said Part Three of Ordinance NS-5,
Section 4: If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or
phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held by
a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such decision
shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this
ordinance, The City Council of the City of Saratoga hereby de-
clares that it would have passed this ordinance' and each section,
subsection, sentence, clause and phrase thereof, irrespective of
the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences,
clauses or phrases be held invalid or unconstitutional,
The above and foregoing ordinauce was introduced and ~as there-
after passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the
City of Saratoga on the 5th day of October, 1966.
AYES: Hartman, Burry, Tyler, Robbins
NOES: None
ABSENT: Glennon
/s/K. P, Hartman
I~YOR
ATTEST;:
/s/~.C. Hafiley
CITY CLERK