Office of the City Clerk - Record #: O2021-1188

• Record #: O2021-1188
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Failed to Pass
• Intro date: 3/24/2021
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Transportation and Public Way
• Final action: 5/24/2023
• Title: Amendment of Municipal Code Chapters 10-20 and 10-32 to modify permit requirements for tree planting on public way
• Sponsors: Cardenas, George A.
• Topic: MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 10 - Streets, Public Ways, Parks, Airports & Harbors - Ch. 20 Work On & Under Public Ways, MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 10 - Streets, Public Ways, Parks, Airports & Harbors - Ch. 32 Trees, Plants & Shrubs
• Related files: R2023-766

Date	Journal Page Number	Action By	Action	Result
5/24/2023		City Council	Failed to Pass
4/19/2021		Committee on Transportation and Public Way	Held in Committee
3/24/2021	29383	City Council	Referred

Committee on Transportation and Public Way
City Council 3.24.21
ORDINANCE
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:
SECTION 1. Section 10-20-100 ofthe Municipal Code of Chicago is hereby amended by adding the language underscored, and by deleting the language struck through, as follows:
10-20-100 License.
(Omitted text is unaffected by this ordinance)
(b) The public way work license specified in this section shall not be required for the placement, planting, cultivation, maintenance or removal of any tree, shrub, flower, sod or other plant material in the public way, as long as the surface disturbance requires a hole of less than six inches deep.
(Omitted text is unaffected by this ordinance)


SECTION 2. Section 10-20-150 ofthe Municipal Code of Chicago is hereby amended by adding the language underscored, and by deleting the language struck through, as follows:
10-20-150 Permit - Fees - Issuance.
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to make an opening in, or to construct or repair any pavement in, any public way or other public place without first obtaining a public way work permit from the Commissioner of Transportation; provided, however, that any such opening, construction or repair may be performed by a person holding the public way work license required by this article, who is not a permittee underthis section but who is acting as subcontractor for, or otherwise acting under instructions from, as agent for, on behalf of, or in concert with, a permittee under this section. A permit fee shall be required for creating any opening in, or for constructing or repairing any pavement in, the public way. Beginning on January 1, 2009, the permit fee for creating a pavement opening or for pavement construction or repair shall be $337.00 for each such opening to be created or each such construction or repair project. Beginning on January 1,2009, the permit fee for creating an opening, or for construction or repair, in any parkway or unimproved portion...