City of Coral Gables

File #: 17-5869    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Second Reading
File created: 3/1/2017 In control: City Commission
On agenda: 3/28/2017 Final action:
Enactment date: Enactment #: 2017-10
Title: An Ordinance of the City Commission of Coral Gables, Florida, requiring landscape maintenance contractors, tree trimmers, gardeners and others similarly situated, to register vehicles with the City prior to performing any work in the City; providing for repealer provision, severability clause, codification, enforceability, and providing for an effective date. (The term "vehicles" in this ordinance refers to motorized ones). (Sponsored by Commissioner Lago)
Sponsors: Mayor Lago
Attachments: 1. Signed Ordinance 2017-10, 2. Cover Memo - landscaper registration 2nd reading, 3. Ordinance - landscaper registration - 2nd reading, 4. Landscape Vehicle Registration Permit Decal Final, 5. Landscape registration application - Final, 6. Rules and Regulations for Landscape Maintenance Contractors, 7. Cover Memo - landscaper registration 1st reading, 8. Draft Ordinance - 1st reading, 9. Registration Form, 10. Rules and Regulations for Landscape Maintenance Contractors, 11. Landscape Vehicle Registration Permit Decal, 12. CCMtg March 14 2017 - Agenda Item E-2 - Ordinance requiring landscape maintenance contractors tree trimmers gardeners to register with the City, 13. CCMtg March 28 2017 - Agenda Item E-1 - Ordinance requiring landscape maintenance contractors tree trimmers gardeners register vehicles

Title

An Ordinance of the City Commission of Coral Gables, Florida, requiring landscape maintenance contractors, tree trimmers, gardeners and others similarly situated, to register vehicles with the City prior to performing any work in the City; providing for repealer provision, severability clause, codification, enforceability, and providing for an effective date. (The term "vehicles" in this ordinance refers to motorized ones).

(Sponsored by Commissioner Lago)

 

Body

Ordinance on First Reading.  AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF CORAL GABLES, FLORIDA, REQUIRING LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE CONTRACTORS, TREE TRIMMERS, GARDENERS AND OTHERS SIMILARLY SITUATED, TO REGISTER ANNUALLY WITH THE CITY PRIOR TO PERFORMING ANY WORK IN THE CITY; PROVIDING FOR REPEALER, SEVERABILITY, CODIFICATION, ENFORCEABILITY AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE. (Sponsored by Commissioner Lago)

 

A significant portion of the City’s residents contract landscape maintenance contractors, tree trimmers, gardeners and others similarly situated, to perform services on their property.  These service providers typically use trucks and/or trailers which they park in the City’s residential neighborhoods while they are performing work.  The ordinance arises out of the public safety concern of having unidentified trucks parked in residential neighborhoods.  In order to increase the safety of City residents, the Ordinance institutes a registration program for these types of service providers.  Registration will also serve to create a list of landscapers/gardeners doing work in the City for purposes of informing these service providers of new regulations, etc.

 

The registration process will be performed by the Finance Department using the attached registration form.  Each vehicle used by a service-provider will be required to have a decal (sample attached) which must be renewed annually.  The ordinance provides for a 90-day educational/warning period before citations are issued.

 

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ATTACHMENT(S):

 

1.                     Draft Ordinance

2.                     Registration form

3.                     Maintenance of Traffic plans

4.                     Sample decal