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City staff flags conflict between resurfacing practice and code over private sprinklers in right‑of‑way
Summary
Staff told the committee the city has been repairing private irrigation systems damaged during resurfacing even though city code places such improvements in the right‑of‑way at the owner's risk.
City staff raised a code‑compliance question on Feb. 26 about private underground irrigation systems installed in the public right‑of‑way and the city’s resurfacing projects. Under the city code cited in the meeting, privately installed improvements in the right‑of‑way are placed “at the owner's risk” and the city is not required to repair them if they are damaged during city utility or maintenance work.
Staff said that despite the code, the city has historically repaired a number of these systems after resurfacing work and presented three years of repair counts and costs to illustrate the impact. The…
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