Engineering Department Documents
2012 Landscape Contractor Application for Registration
Ditch Enclosure
There is no form for a ditch enclosure. To enclose a ditch, please make a written request to Engineering Manager Joe Reitz that includes your name, address and phone number. The Engineering Department will access the property and determine if the ditch can be enclosed. After that determination has been made, you may contact the Service Department to perform the work. You will be responsible for payment of the materials. In the alternative, you may perform the work or you may hire a contractor. If you have any questions, please call 930-4101.
The footer elevation certificate is filled out by the contractor and guarantees that the footer is at the elevation that was permitted on the grading permit approved by the Engineering Department.
The Grading Permit is pulled when a new home is being built. The permit is approved by the Engineering Manager and inspections are made prior to a occupancy permit.
A re-grade permit is pulled any time you change the grade of your yard after a occupancy permit is approved. If you re-landscape, add fill dirt, add a yard drain, etc., you must obtain the permit.
This permit is used any time someone will be working in the road/street. This permit must be pulled from the Engineering Department, approved and inspected.
A right-of-way permit must be obtained any time someone will be working in the right-of-way (one foot behind the sidewalk to the centerline of the street)
This is a description of where a typical sidewalk would be placed. It will show the city's requirements if someone is planning to install a sidewalk in front of his/her home.
Technical Specifications for a Grading Permit
- Typical sidewalk cross slope to be 1/4 per foot. Any deviation will have to be approved by the City Engineer, and in no situation shall the cross slope exceed 1/2" per foot.
- Expansion joints to be placed every 25 feet and trowl joints every 5 feet.
- All sidewalks are to be 6" thick in driveways and curbramps, 4" thick elsewhere.
- Sidewalk base to be 2" compacted limestone shall be placed on a firm sub-base. In no situation shall a frozen base be acceptable.
- White cure compond to be used.
- Screened humus topsoil to be used free of all lumps, stones, and debris to be placed adjacent to new sidewalks, a minimum of 4" deep, and seeded and mulched..
- The proposed sidewalk is to be installed to match the existing grade and NOT disturb the surface water flow.
- Concrete for sidewalks shall not be placed when the temperature is below 32 F. If the temperature is expected to drop below freezing within 48 hours of a concrete pour the contractor shall be required to use heat retaining blankets.
The Engineering office must be notified 24 hours in advance of the sidewalk/apron concrete pour. An inspection will be conducted.
Right-of-way permits must be obtained through the Engineering office for the construction of sidewalks. A copy of homeowners insurance policy is required unless a registered contractor is hired to do the work.
Right of way distances for each lot can be obtained at the Engineering Office, 150 Avon Belden Road, 7:30-4:30 M-F.
