Richmond HillSite Alteration & EngineeringRoad Occupancy & Encroachment
Chapter 801 Obstruction – Highway
Published by City of Richmond Hill
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- Type
- By-law
- Published by
- City of Richmond Hill
- Date
- September 2014
- Also called
- Municipal Code Chapter 801 - Highway Obstruction By-law No. 17-87, as amended
- For
- any
- Building types
- All building types
- Pages
- 12
- Instruments
- Highway Traffic Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. H.8, section 110 · Provincial Offences Act · Town of Richmond Hill Tariff of Fees By-law · Engineering and Public Works Department- Standards and Specifications Manual
Overview
Chapter 801 of Richmond Hill's Municipal Code, Obstruction – Highway, in its September 2014 printing, citing By-law 17-78 and its amendments. It defines the boulevard, hard landscaping and the sight triangle, and sets the Commissioner's permits for obstructions, driveway culverts and curb cuts, hedges and projections on the highway, with exceptions for narrow hard landscaping and low herbaceous plants. Further articles cover excavation and closures, a building-lot deposit of $60 per foot to $3,000, snow removal and oversize vehicles. It sits beside the City's site alteration and tree by-laws.
What it covers
- Interpretation
- General Provisions
- Construction - On Highway
- Snow Removal
- Oversize Vehicles
- Enforcement
- Repeal
- Culvert - curb cut - permit - required
- Hedge - shrubs - on highway - permit required - exceptions
- Projection - encroaching on highway - permit
- Excavation - on highway - permit - conditions
- Security deposit - required - calculation
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