Ord 0167-REGULATING THE CONSTRUCTION OF CONCRETET ,
AN OPDIANCE REGUTATDIG TIM CONSTRUCTION
OF CONCRETE CURBS. GUTTERS AND SIDE1,W-ALES
IN THE TOViN OF LOS GATOS.
The Board of Trustees of the Town of Los
Gatos do ordain as follows:
SEC, OXE: No person, firm or cor-
poration sha,31, within the corporate limits of the
Town of Los Gatos lay down, build or construct
any sidewalks, curbs or gutters upon any street,
lane or alley therein without first having applied
to and obtained from the Board of Trustees of said
Town a permit so to do, and all of said work shall
be done under the supervision and to the satisfaction
of the Superintendent of Streets of said Towne
SEC. 5v All sidewalks, curbs and gutters
shall be constructed in accordance with the plans
and sectional drawings prepared by the Town lnigrneer
and entitled "flans and Sectional Drawing for the
Construction of Concrete Curbs, Gutters and Sidewalks
in t#e Town of Los Gatos, Sheets B370 and 133711"
filed with the Town Clerk of the Town of Los Gatos on the
19th day of I'arch, 1915, and approved and hdopted by the
Board of Trustees on the 19th day of Barth, 1915,
SEC® THR:~'P: Ali sidewalks, curb s and
gutters sh;;~'l re constructed according to :#e official
lines and -rades heretofore established and adopted br
which may hereafter be established and adopted by
the Board of Trustees of said Towne
SEC. FOUR: That the person, firm or
corporation laying down, building or constructing
any such sidewalk, curb or gutter befae proceeding
to do the work of laying down, brilding or construct-
ing said sidewalk, curb or gutter shall first file
with the Superintendent of Streets of said Town of
Los Gatos, a request for the Town Engineer to makr
upon the ground the offici4 lines and grades
for said sidewalk, curbs and gutters and shall net
do any work thereon until the said Town Engineer
shall have first given and marked on the ground the
said official lines and grades.
SEC. FIVE: All sidewalks, curbs and gutters
dhall be constructed according to the specifications therefor
adopted by the Board of Trustees of the said Town on the
19th day of March, 1916, reference to which specifications
are hereby made and said specifications are made a part
of this ordinance.
SW. S3:X: Immediately after the completion
of the work for trhich the permit is granted as hereinbefore
provided, the person, firm or corporation doing said work
shall remove all un-used material, refuse and dirt placed
by him on or in the vicinity of the work.
SEC. SEVEN: Any person violating any of the
provisions of this Ordinance shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished
by a fine not exceeding One Hundred Dollars or by imm
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prisonment in the County Jail of not more than fifteen:
days or by both such fine and imprisonment.
,TC. 2IGHT: This Ordinance shall be published
for two weeks in the Los Gatos Nets a Newspaper printed
and published in the Toyan of Los Gatos.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of Trustees
of the Town of Laos Gatos at a, regular meeting thereof held
on the day of April, 1915.
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THE TOUT OI LOS GATOS.
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Be it by the Board of Trustees of the Town of
Los Gatos, R E S 0 4s D E B
TPhat the folloViin s~pecificetions beg 'wi'ld the sa„e
are hereby adopted as arici for *..he srecificati:.ns for the
cons trz;ctlon of concrete side=nalks, curbs and gutters in
said Toyrn of Fos Gat.osa
FOUNDATION* Where the walk to be constructed
does not fill the entire space between the curbs and
the y.ro;_erty -line, the er.cavaticn or emb mkraent, as the
case may be,- for foundation shall extend at least six
inches outside -the lines of the wal-on each side.
illing f_or embank-m-ent shell be dome in lu,iers
not exceeding seven inches in depth `o;llen co-apa.cted, each
layer being thoroujhly sprinkled and tamped. Side slopes
to e :ban-k ent shL l be two feet horizontal to one foot
vertical. Material must be good earth, or .:axed with
send, gravel or borker! -lock, and free from adobe or
perishable material, and it must ~ e laid uiion a surface
from which ara.ss and other l;erishable ;2aterial have
been removed.
Ir_ elcavating for concrete curbs and gutters,
should the depth of the curb, as shown upon the standard
plans, not bring the bottom of the curb into solid ex-
cavz;.tion, then the depth of the curb must be sufficiently
incl:ea.sed to brim the bott..-M at least two inches into
such e_ c:avation.
D1~1dciONSFicertln= :=here cthe se orae_Fd
b; t'11e Board of~Town Trustees, the concrete side. _J.lks
shall be constructed five feet in width b2gir!nin^ one
foot from the property line and extending five feet
towards the curb line.
A I •siderlalks shall consist of a concrete base
three and one half inches tick with a mo u[..T surface
one-half inch thick exce-~-.tin" where drive-°:a.ys cross
the said side a.lksm
All dri.~evaay-s shall consist of a concrete base
four and one fourth inches thick with a mortar surface
one and one fourth inches thick.
All concrete curbs shall be cons eructed si ti
inches hide at the top and at least t=celve inches deeps.
All concrete gutters shall be constructed one
and one-half feet wide acid six inches thick.
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construction of the sidewalks, curbs and guers shall
be mixed in the proportion of one (1) cubic foot of
Portland Cement to two and one-half (22) cubic feet of
sand to four and one-hair (42) cubic feet o= .ravels
shall be
Four (c) sacks or one ~l} barrel of cement sh? Imo:
considered as four cubic feet.
The cemen 1 used must be Portland Cement
meeting the requirements and tests of the standard
specifications for Portland Cement adopted by the
Pmerican Society of Testing Material-—
The sand or screening used in the concrete or l
in the surface shall not contain -particles retained by
a screen shaving g a four (4) meshes per lineal inch. The grains shall have rough unpolished surfaces
to which the cement paste will readily adhere and small
range uniform from fire to coarse. The sand shall be
free from lumps of clay, loam or other foreign materials.
It shall contain not more than five (5) per cent by
weight of finely divided clay, loam or other suspended
matter, when tested by mashing. The sand shall be free
from oil_q or greasy matter in any _"orn and must contain
no organic silt. The voids in the dry sr n.d when well
ive X35) per cent of 'he
shaken shall not exceed thirty-l"
total volume of the same.
The gravel to be used for concretes shall be
composed of hard and sound particles of such sizze that
they will all pass throe-h'a screen having circular
meshes one and one-half 4~~) inches in diameter and be
open-
~ clear retained upon a screen having one-fout r th UH inch per cent pe
ings. It shall contain riot pore than three (3) per cent
wei.zht of finely divided clay, loam or other free from
matters when tested by washing. It shall be of 1ti, or -rea sy matter in any form and must contain no
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organic silt.
"Run of the pit" material may be used in
-pro-portioning the concrete, providing that it conf®rms
to the specifications hereinbefore given for si ~.e of
particles and for cleanness. In proportioning the
it run" material which
concrete, that pro tion of the p
will pass through a screen having one°fouT h `D inch
clear openings will be considered as sand.
If the pit run material contains gravel in
excess of the amount required in the above described
be added in such quantities
mixture, then sand motif
as to meet the said requirements.
If the pit run :material contains sand in
excess of the amount requimd in the above described
mixture, then enough 'ravel or broken rock must
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be added to meet the said requirements, or enough cement
must be added to make ratio of cement to sand as one
(l) is to °and e4t.2cable above
after dther lae0.r
As soon as is prac g of
the concrete base the top surface shall be applied and
troweled to a smooth even surface and lined into blocks
not exceeding six square feet in area.
The walk shall be covered with find sane:
or canvass and kept well wet for at least went--four
hours, and then allowed to dry out 510171y with frequent
wettings for at least six (o)®ddays.
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Concrete for curbing shall be mixed as before
stated and a 3/4 inch coating of mortar shall be applied
to the top and the gutter face of the curb. she finished
curb shall present a slightly roughened surface and be
lined every four (4) feet. Unless the curb and gutter
are poured at the same time, the --utter must be poured as k•'
soon as the curb is finished down to the point where
the gutter is to be joined and before the concrete in the
curb is finally set.
The top or finish coat shall be put on immediately
and troweled down and finished with a rough brush finish.
The finished surface of the gutter shall be lined opposite
the markings on the curb.
The finished curb and gutter shall be protected
from the hot sun by a covering of planking or clean loam
and sand and must be kept wet for six (6) days.
The curbing shall be continued around the corners
of intersecting streets on a curiae of 8 feet radius ex-
cepting where the width of the sidewalk between the
property line and the face of the curb is six (6) feet, or
less, in -hich case tie curb shall be continued around the
corners of the intersecting streets on a curve of six
(6) foot radius.
.9-11 mixing shall be done in boxes on a suitable
platform or in power mixers. In case of mixing by hands
the materials shall be spread in uniform layers of such
thickness as to obtain the proper. proportions. The mass
shall then be mixed dry by turning with shovels at least
three times and until the mixture has an even color.
Water shall then be added in a fine spray, and the mixture
turned at least twice wet, after which it shall be imm
medin.tely l,ce in postion and thoroughly tamped and
rammed until it is thoroughly compacted. The concrete
shall be sufficiently wet so that some moisture rises
to the surface under the tamping, but shall not be
so wet that it shall quake under the tamper.
Under no circumstances shall any concrete be
put into the work after its initial set has taken place and
in no case will retampering be permitted.
The top surface or facing shall be composed of
sand and Portland Cement mixed in the proportions of one
(1) part cement to one and one-half (1-j) parts of sand..
The sand for the top layer shall be colored by mixing dry
lamp black with the sand, using one pound of lamp black to
four cubic feet of the sane., and thoroughly mixing before
adding the cement,
The concrete base shall be mixed as before
describ ed and immediately placed upon the prepared
subgrade and thoroughly tamped and rammed.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this / day ofP=rs
1915, by the following vote.
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