18.90.100 Installation, standards and specifications of public facility and service improvements.
A. Standards and Specifications. Public facility and service improvements (hereinafter called “improvements”) required as a condition of development under this title will be at least the equivalent of the standards and improvements set forth in TMC 17.10.020 and 17.20.020, except as otherwise provided by this title. In the absence of adopted improvement specifications, the city shall determine the specifications of improvements to be installed for each development, but the specifications to be at least equal to the most recent Oregon A.P.W.A. standard specifications of public works construction. If the improvements are to be constructed within the right-of-way under the jurisdiction of an entity other than the city of Talent, that entity shall have the right to determine the standards and design to be imposed. If the entity having jurisdiction within the right-of-way determines that it will not set standards and specifications, the city will do so.
B. Review Process. The applicant shall submit a copy of the plans and specifications for improvements to the city and shall submit to the entity the necessary permits to construct the improvements. Plans prepared in accordance with the standards and specifications set by the city shall be submitted to the engineer of the city’s choice for approval or comment, at applicant’s expense. Thereafter, the plans, if they are for improvements within a public right-of-way and are to become the city’s responsibility, shall be submitted to the city council for its approval or rejection.
C. Inspections. Whenever the city is to accept responsibility for or jurisdiction of the required improvements and the entity having jurisdiction of the right-of-way will not conduct inspection of the construction work, an engineer engaged by the city will do the inspections at applicant’s expense. However, if the city council determines that the nature and size of the improvements justify it, the applicant, in lieu of utilizing the city’s engineer for inspections, may employ his own engineer who shall make inspection in accordance with a list of construction tests to be met at specified events in the course of the construction process; and, in such event, the list shall be approved by an engineer engaged by the city but need not be prepared by him.
D. Acceptance by the City. Before the city will accept responsibility for or jurisdiction of the improvements, the applicant shall deliver to the city in approved form the following:
1. A signed statement from a professional engineer registered in the state of Oregon that the improvements have been constructed in accordance with the approved plans and specifications, and if the engineer was employed by the applicant, that the required construction tests set forth in subsection (C) of this section have been conducted and have yielded positive results;
2. A one-year guarantee that the improvements have been constructed in a workmanlike manner and are free from defects in work and materials, the guarantee to be secured by a surety bond issued by a bonding company licensed by the state of Oregon;
3. One set of “as-built” improvement plans; and
4. If the improvements are constructed upon private property, a recordable easement in a form approved by the city attorney that permits use by the public and maintenance by the city of the improvement.
E. Miscellaneous Tasks of the City Engineer. The city, with advice of an engineer engaged by it, shall establish bonding amounts, and the city may in any event engage an engineer to conduct inspections necessary to protect the interests of the city.
F. Reimbursement for Engineering and Attorney Services. The applicant shall reimburse the city for any work prescribed herein, and conducted by the city’s engineer and attorney. [Ord. 966 § 2 (Exh. B), 2021; Ord. 817 § 8-3J.135, 2006.]