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

20, ENCROACHMENTS, regulates the use of City of Sonoma streets and the installation, maintenance and repair of facilities within the public right-of-way. 030 broadly bars encroaching or causing an encroachment of any nature within, upon, over or under a right-of-way without a permit, expressly including parades and other formal gatherings, along with alterations, obstructions, tree cutting or trimming, fires, pipelines, oversized vehicle movement, and excavations or embankments. 020(E) defines 'encroach or encroachment' to include erecting or maintaining posts, signs, poles, benches, mailboxes, vending stands, fences, guardrails, walls, pipes, conduits, scaffolding, barricades, banners, or merchandise displays on or under the right-of-way, as well as planting or removing trees, dumping rubbish, or building structures adjacent to the right-of-way that will cause an encroachment.

100 cross-references this chapter, requiring an encroachment permit for all improvements performed in the public rights-of-way. 050, letting urgent repairs proceed if a permit application follows within one work day. 150). 060). 040).