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Home My WebLink About12/06/2005, C6 - 2006 STANDARD SPECIFICATIONS AND ENGINEERING STANDARDS FOR CONSTRUCTION council Dec6, 2005 j ac€noa Report CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO FROM: Jay Walter, Director of PublicWor Prepared By: Daniel Van.Beveren, ncipal Civil Engineer 1>105 SUBJECT: 2006 STANDARD SPECIFICATIONS AND ENGINEERING STANDARDS FOR CONSTRUCTION CAO RECOMMENDATION Adopt a resolution approving the 2006 City Standard Specifications and Engineering Standards for Construction Projects and rescind the previous resolution. DISCUSSION For many years the City has maintained a set of Standard Specifications and Engineering Standards. These two documents outline the guidelines and requirements for construction on City projects and for construction of private development work within the City's tight of way or within future City parks. City projects presented to the City Council for approval to advertise for construction are typically in the form of a set of plans along with a document called the "Special Provisions". The, plans and Special Provisions identify for the specific project; the specific conditions which must be met. These specific conditions are either not covered in the Standard Specifications and Engineering Standards or are different from the standard practice for some reason. The Standard Specifications and Engineering Standards are referenced for all items, conditions, or issues which are not specified in the project plans or Special Provisions. The City Standard Specifications are based on the State of California Department of Transportation Standard Specifications. The City references the State book with modifications and changes written in where appropriate to meet City needs and wants. The State book covers many standard contract issues and legal requirements such as labor laws, payment, and liability. The City specifications focus on construction the State does not normally handle such as municipal water and wastewater systems, and parks. The Engineering Division updates these documents annually to reflect changes in construction law,practices,or materials, and to add clarifications. Staff continually monitors the workability of these documents and generates suggested revisions. These suggestions come from all areas of the organization, although are primarily.generated by the Public Works and Utilities Departments. Changes are generally intended to add clarification, close loop holes or update standards to current practices and materials. The requested changes are reviewed by engineering and development review staff and recommended for approval to the City Engineer and ultimately to the City Council. This year's revisions to both the Standard Specifications and the Engineering Standards are few and minor in nature. Most of the revisions are modifications or clarifications to existing specifications or standards that will not have an impact on the cost of construction or development. One new standard implemented in this year's revisions is a requirement that new and replaced storm drainage inlets contain a painted stencil which reads "NO DUMPING = DRAINS TO CREEK". This is 2006 Standard Specifications and Engineering Standards Page 2 intended to increase the awareness of the environmental issues of storm drain runoff and will assist in the City's compliance with new regulations of the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) which have recently been mandated by the State Water Quality Control Board. Staff has completed the needed revisions to the City Standard Specifications and Engineering Standards and the changes are now ready for formal Council adoption. CONCURRENCES Affected departments have submitted changes for inclusion in the Standard Specifications and Engineering Standards. FISCAL IMPACT There is no fiscal impact associated with this action. Attachments Attachment 1 -Resolution A copy of the Standard Specifications and Engineering Standards are available in the Council Office for review. (Changes to the Standard.Specifications are identified by a bar in the margin. Changes to the Engineering Standards are noted in the bottom footer.) i:k. A mpons12006OM006 adopt standard specs&en0 sm.doc I 1- .I Attachment 1 RESOLUTION NO. (2005 Series) A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO APPROVING REVISED STANDARD SPECIFICATIONS AND ENGINEERING STANDARDS FOR CONSTRUCTION WHEREAS, the Public Works Department is responsible for maintaining Standard Specifications and Engineering Standards establishing quality requirements and contract conditions for construction; and WHEREAS, the Standard Specifications and Engineering Standards must be periodically updated to allow for changes in construction practices and contract law;and WHEREAS, legally adopted Standard Specifications are necessary to provide "design and plan immunity thereby protecting the City from possible liability, BE IT RESOLVED,by the Council of the City of San Luis Obispo as follows: . 1. Approve the revised City Standard Specifications and.Engineering Standards. 2. Rescind Resolution No. 9628 (2004 Series) approving the previous editions of the Standard Specifications and Engineering Standards. Upon motion of _ , seconded by and on the following roll call vote: AYES: NOES: ABSENT: the foregoing resolution was adopted this day of -__. ,2004. David-F. Romero,Mayor ATTEST: Audrey Hooper;City Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORK na well;City Attorney ez council meMOR- Anoum cit JFmn Luis obis o, aaministuation aE aatrnent DATE`. December 6, 2005 RECEIVED TO: City Council nFF. 0 61005 FROM Ken Hampian, CAO SLO CITY CLERK SUBJECT: Amendment to Item C-6 During agenda review this morning, Council Member Mulholland asked if language could be added to the Standard Specifications and Engineering Standards for Construction that requests better information related to trees that are not to be removed. While staff has already been working to improve submittals in this regard, staff also agrees that including-language in our standard specifications would help, too. Attached is proposed added language: ® COUNCIL $3 CAC -Y-CDD DIR RED FILE aACAO �i FIN DIR %ATTORNEY T FIRE CHIEF MEETING AGENDA CLERK/ORIGPN DIR ❑ DEEpT HEADS 'POLICE CHF DATE: ITEM # 66 T] Pia REC DIR L;r UTIL DIR �, HR BIR COUNCIL MEMO TEMPLATE General Drawing Content Drawings shall contain the following minimum elements: Title Block North Arrow Creek & Street Names Vicinity Map Bar Scale Centerline Monuments Dimensions Date Lot lines & numbers Stationing Legends Tract Name & number Bench Marks Easements Bearings, radii, etc. Topography Elevations Existing Utilites Datum Reference Trees & Driplines Engineering Standard with numbers referenced .Tree diameter shall be accurately rep_ resented. Drip lines shall be shown for any tree not permitted for removal.. Grading, utility and landscape plans shall not be combined on the same sheet. Curves shall show radius, delta, curve length and control for BC and EC to allow construction. External References (xrefs) Xrefs shall be bound to or inserted in the drawing in which they are needed for printing. Xrefs used during design, but not displayed for printing shall be detached. User Coordinate System (UCS) When:rotation is necessary for plotting, a UCS shall be used in lieu of rotating the drawing out of,thd original orientation.. Stationing Stationing shall be north to south or west to east running left to right on the paper. Beginning stationing shall be tied to an existing centerline intersection. Coordinates for the beginning station and ending station shall be shown on the plans. Alignments and stationing should be on a street centerline when work.will occur within a street. Profiles can be generated either on the centerline or offset, as long as their location is clearly defined on the profile. On City funded projects (Capital Improvement Program,) stationing for different streets in the same project shall not have duplicate stationing numbers. Ex: A Street Waterline— Sta 1+00 to Sta 3+58, B Street Paving — Sta 4+00 to Sta 6+97 REVISIONS BY APP DATE MY Of Completely revised BL JDW .11-02_ ;1; _ iiilllhVluldhl'"''°li1•llll Inc DRAFTING STANDARDS LUIS STANDARD CURRENT AS OF: January2006 OBISPO Page a 991 O,