CITY OF VICTORVILLE STREET IMPROVEMENTS GENERAL NOTES:
1. These improvement plans are based on City of Victorville Bench Mark V-insert number, being a insert physical description, located at insert location, having an elevation of insert elevation from City Datum. Where an onsite construction bench mark is also used, add similar data. 
2. Unless otherwise noted, all construction and materials shall conform to these plans, provisions of the latest revision of the City of Victorville Standard Specifications for Public Works Construction, and policies and applicable provisions of the City of Victorville Engineering Department. 
3. Contractor agrees that he shall assume sole and complete responsibility for job site conditions during the course of construction of this project, including safety of all persons and property; that this requirement shall apply continually and not be limited to normal working hours; and that the contractor shall defend, indemnify and hold the owner, the engineer, and the City harmless from any and all liability, real or alleged, in connection with the performance of work on this project. 
4. It shall be the contractor’s responsibility to obtain any permits required by the City of Victorville Engineering Department in order to do the work shown on these plans.  
5. The contractor shall give the City of Victorville Engineering Department (760) 243-6350 at least 2 working days advanced notice to schedule a pre-construction meeting with the inspector prior to start of work. 
6. The contractor shall notify the City of Victorville Engineering Department at least 1 working day prior to necessary inspections at. A re-inspection fee will be rendered on each occasion when the contractor is not ready for the inspection at the scheduled time. No further inspections will be performed until said re-inspection fee is paid. 
7. The contractor shall notify Underground Service Alert 2 working days in advance of excavation at 1-800-422-4133 for exact utility locations. 
8. It shall be the contractor’s responsibility to familiarize him/her self with site conditions and of any underground utilities shown or not shown on these plans. 
9. Existing utilities shall be maintained in operation during construction. 
10. All pipelines, substructures, or utilities of any kind, whether shown on these plans or not, shall be protected in place or, if required, be removed, relocated, or reinforced to the satisfaction of the City Engineer and the Company owning the facility at the expense of the contractor. 
11. Any relocation of existing mailboxes, power poles, streetlights, fire hydrants, signposts, telephone pedestals, etc., shall be relocated or removed and reinstalled by and at the expense of the contractor. 
12. It shall be the contractor’s responsibility to protect surveying monuments in place, and the contractor shall be financially responsible for resetting damaged or destroyed monuments. 
13. Joshua trees shall be protected in place or relocated as approved by the Parks Division of the City of Victorville Department of Community Services at the contractor’s expense. 
14. Adequate stakes, as determined by the City Engineer, enabling the contractor to construct the work to plan and grade shall be set by the direction of the contractor’s licensed engineer or surveyor.  
15. The contractor shall be held responsible for any field changes made without prior written authorization from the designing engineer and the City of Victorville Engineer. 
16. Contractors will be supplied with one (1) set of contract drawings to be used for as-built drawings. The contractor shall update the as-built drawings daily. The contractor shall make the as-built drawings available to the owner, engineer, or inspector upon request. The as-built drawings shall include the stations of all connections, tees, and laterals. 
17. All excavations shall be backfilled at the end of each working day and roads made safe and open to vehicular traffic. 
18. The contractor shall be responsible for providing testing required by the City’s Inspector and The City of Victorville Standard for Public Works Improvements. A certification of compaction signed by a registered Engineer shall be submitted for all trench backfills. 
19. If base is required, the thickness shall be determined on the results of the geotechnical/soils report for this project. Minimum base thickness shall be 8-inches, minimum R-Value of 70, and minimum sand equivalent of 25.  Traffic Index Values can be obtained from the City Engineering Department.  All street pavement sections must be approved by the City Engineer prior to commencement of construction.  Selecting native material may be used as base if previously approved by the City Engineer. 
20. Maximum driveway widths are 12-feet for a single car garage, 18-feet for a two car garage and 24-feet for a 3 car garage. Driveway shall align with garage door(s) or carport and be perpendicular to curb. 
21. If improvements of asphalt or Portland cement is to be placed directly on subsurface, a soil sterilant registered by the EPA for use under asphalt or Portland cement shall be uniformly applied per manufacturer’s recommended rate for the entire surface in contact subsurface (full pavement width) prior to paving. 
22. All new AC pavements shall be seal coated as determined by the City Engineer per City of Victorville Standard Specifications or California Department of Transportation Standard Specifications. 
23. Construction traffic control and temporary striping and signing plans shall be prepared by the contractor’s engineer and be approved by the City Engineer prior to commencement of construction. These plans are required for construction by plans and construction work on existing streets. 
24. Final striping and traffic control sign plans shall be prepared by the developer’s engineer and be approved by the City Engineer. Striping and pavement markings shall be furnished by the contractor. All street markings, lane lines, legends, limit lines, etc., on full street improvements, shall be thermoplastic on final cap. Painted striping and markings may be permitted if previously approved by the City Engineer, on partial street improvements that are not completing the street to full improvements. 
25. Street name signs and traffic control signs shall be installed by the City of Victorville at the expense of the contractor. 
26. All fire hydrant locations shall be delineated by a blue dot in the pavement located on a line perpendicular to the curb and at the center of the fire hydrant approximately 1’ from the left side of the number 1 lane (lane closest to the center line) on the side of the street on which the fire hydrant is located.
27. The top of curb shall be painted red 15 feet either side of a fire hydrant red (no parking). The curb in a curb return or a driveway approach need not be painted. 
28. The contractor shall clean the streets prior to occupancy and shall keep the streets clean until they are accepted by the City of Victorville.