Casa Grande, AZ Sidewalk & Pedestrian Rules: Encroachment Permits (2026)

Casa Grande Municipal Code Section 15.32.210, part of Chapter 15.32's Public Improvement Requirements for Land Developers, requires that prior to any work commencing for any purpose on any public right-of-way, the person for whom the work is being completed must file an application for a right-of-way permit. The city engineer requires plans and specifications at the time of application, along with fees for the city's review of the maintenance, construction or building plans; the fee itself is set in the City Consolidated Fee Schedule under Section 1.04.170, and fees are payable to the city.

The section closes with an express bar on self-help: no work may commence without the written approval of the city engineer, meaning approval, not merely submission of an application, is the trigger that authorizes work to begin. In practice this covers private encroachments into the public right-of-way, such as utility connections, driveway aprons, curb cuts and other construction that touches city streets or the land the city holds for them, and it channels every such request through the city engineer's office rather than any other department.

The neighboring Section 15.32.220 gives the city council limited flexibility to waive or modify the chapter's improvement regulations where extraordinary topography, land ownership or development conditions warrant it, but that waiver runs through council action on the engineer's recommendation, not through self-certification by the applicant. The permit requirement applies only inside the City of Casa Grande; work on right-of-way in unincorporated Pinal County or in Arizona City, Eloy or Coolidge is permitted by those separate jurisdictions.