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Committee approves sending updated encroachment ordinance to full council with staff to clarify penalties and insurance
Summary
The Roads, Infrastructure and Public Works Committee voted March 17 to forward a revised encroachment ordinance — updating construction and restoration standards, fees and bonding, contractor licensing and a cooperative utility agreement — and asked staff to clarify penalty-stacking language and the $2 million insurance threshold before full council consideration.
The Greenville County Roads, Infrastructure and Public Works Committee on March 17 voted to approve and forward a substantially revised encroachment ordinance to the full council, asking staff to return with clarifications on how penalties stack and whether the draft's $2 million public liability insurance threshold is appropriate.
Hunter Kley presented the draft ordinance and summarized why county staff prepared a rewrite of the 2003 code: "if you're not familiar with the encroachment ordinance, it basically governs any work done within county rightway," he said, noting the current ordinance's language is dense…
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