Presenter
Presented by Mr. Burgess
Title
Ordinance providing for the revision of Encroachment Ordinance Chapter 419.05 Telephone Booths, Transit Shelters and Newsracks of the Pittsburgh City Code to include Bicycle Racks.
Body
Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:
Section 1. Sections 419.05 of Title Four, Article I, Chapter 419, which currently reads:
ยง 419.05 TELEPHONE BOOTHS, TRANSIT SHELTERS AND NEWSRACKS.
(a) No person shall erect, install or maintain a telephone booth, public transit shelter, newsrack or news vending machine on any sidewalk or other public place without first obtaining a permit annually therefore from the Department of Public Works. No permit shall be issued for a public transit shelter prior to the enactment of authorizing legislation by Council. All telephone booths, transit shelters, newsracks and news vending machines so installed shall be subject to the terms and conditions imposed by the Department.
(b) No person shall install a public transit shelter without first having provided thirty (30) written notice to the owner or owners of the property immediately abutting the easement upon which said shelter shall be located. Said property owner(s) shall file any objections in writing with the Director, Department of Public Works, within ten (10) days. The Director must consider the objections of abutting property owner(s) when issuing permits for such shelters pursuant to this Chapter.
(c) No permit shall be issued for a public transit shelter which contains an advertising sign without first obtaining approval from the Zoning Administrator regarding the design and location of the shelter and the sign, considering issues including, but not limited to the location relative to residential properties, storefronts, pedestrian passage, landscape features, and safety; and considering issues including, but not limited to, the design relative to the design or historic nature of surrounding prope...
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