Moorpark, CA Sidewalk & Pedestrian Rules: Obstruction Rules (2026)

' The same subsection separately bans any encroachment 'which impedes, obstructs, denies or impairs the sight distance for safe pedestrian or vehicular traffic,' and gives the commissioner authority to require an encroachment be painted, fitted with reflectors, or relocated at the permittee's sole expense if it impairs visibility to traffic. Subsection (B) adds a companion requirement for excavation or obstruction hazards left in the right-of-way: the permittee must place warning lights at intervals of not more than 50 feet along the excavation or obstruction, running from a half hour before sunset to a half hour after sunrise, until the site is made safe.

Subsection (A) requires the permittee to provide whatever lights, barricades, signs or watchmen are necessary to protect the public during the work, and if the commissioner finds those safeguards inadequate, the city can install and maintain them itself and bill the permittee under the schedule of charges adopted by the board of supervisors. Subsection (E) lets the commissioner demand evidence up front, before work begins, that a proposed overhead structure or encroachment will not create a hazard. Together these rules mean a contractor or resident cannot leave a completed encroachment, whether a fence, sign, driveway apron or excavation backfill, sitting across a sidewalk or blocking a driver's line of sight, even after the underlying permit was properly issued.