Title 12 Public Ways and Property
Chapter 12.02 Obstruction, Encroachment of Public Ways
Article III. Skywalks
Section 12.02.0405 Findings
- The City, as a city of the first class, has the power to regulate and control the use of streets and avenues within the corporate limits of the City.
- The free circulation of pedestrian and vehicle traffic through the City is necessary to the health, safety, and general welfare of the citizens of the City.
- The construction of overhead pedestrian skywalks will facilitate movement of pedestrian traffic, especially within portions of the community where the reduction of pedestrian traffic congestion on the existing skywalks and streets appears warranted, may be to the general benefit of the citizens of the City.
- The placement of overhead pedestrian skywalks in the airspace across the streets and alleys in the city will not interfere with the use of the surface of the street as a public right-of-way.
- The issuance of a permit granting the right to use the public airspace to build a pedestrian skywalk or which permits a property owner to obtain access to the pedestrian skywalk system should not carry with it the right for the permittee to prohibit another property owner from joining the skywalk system or from obtaining access to any of its tributaries.
Date Passed: Monday, May 9, 2022
Effective Date: Sunday, June 19, 2022
ORD C36205 Section 2
