Menifee, CA Sidewalk & Pedestrian Rules: Encroachment Permits (2026)

The Menifee Municipal Code enforces the right-of-way rule through the citywide nuisance ordinance, Chapter 11.20, rather than a stand-alone permitting chapter. Section 11.20.020(A)(33) makes it unlawful to allow any personal property or structure, fences, sheds, parked equipment, plantings, that obstructs or encroaches on a public alley, highway, sidewalk, street or other right-of-way unless the property owner has first obtained a valid encroachment permit or other city approval. Menifee separately lists Riverside County Ordinance No. 499, "Encroachments," among the county ordinances the city adopted by reference in Table I of the Code, and Chapter 14.01 confirms the mechanism is still an encroachment permit issued through the City Engineer/Public Works Director's office: MMC § 14.01.020(A) routes even small wireless facility installations through "an encroachment permit pursuant to ordinance 499." Once code enforcement identifies an unpermitted encroachment, it is processed as a public nuisance under §§ 11.20.030 through 11.20.090: the city issues a notice of public nuisance and intention to abate, the responsible person may voluntarily remove the encroachment or appeal to a hearing officer, and an unabated encroachment can be removed by the city with the costs assessed against the property, including a recorded nuisance-abatement lien under § 11.20.170.