All sanitary sewage facilities and all public
water shall be constructed in accordance with the construction standards
and requirements of the appropriate service provider.
Where fire hydrants are required they shall
be installed pursuant to specifications of the appropriate public
water service provider.
All guide rails shall be constructed in accordance
with current PennDOT criteria and in accordance with the construction
standards in Figure 408.1.
All installations, locations and materials shall
comply with Township and Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
standards.
A. Traffic/regulatory sign details and procedures.
(2) Speed limit signs (25 miles per hour, unless noted);
(5) Weight, size and load restrictions;
(7) Stopping, standing and parking restrictions;
(8) Hazardous grade speed limits;
(10)
No turns on red restrictions;
(11)
Removal of traffic hazards;
(12)
School zones and school zone speed limits;
(13)
Special speeds on bridges or elevated structures;
(14)
Creation of one-way streets.
B. All traffic control signs (other than street name
signs) must use the following specifications.
(2) Must use easy erect channel.
(3) Ten-foot-long galvanized steel posts.
(4) Three-foot countersink posts.
(6) Theft-proof nuts and bolts.
(7) All traffic control signs must be at least seven feet
to the bottom of the sign, and two feet to five feet behind the curb.
(8) Signs, when not at an intersection, should be placed
between lots, on lot lines.
(9) Arrows indicate flow of traffic.
C. Street name signs.
(1) The standard Township street sign will have the following
specifications:
(a)
The street name shall appear on street name
signs in capital letters six inches high.
(b)
Prefixes such as "North" shall be abbreviated
to N.
(c)
Suffixes such as "Drive" shall be abbreviated
to DR.
(d)
Prefixes and suffixes shall be four inches high.
(e)
The street name sign shall have 3M or equal
white reflective lettering, on 3M-3877 high-intensity green or equal
green background.
(f)
Signs shall be mounted on nine-inch-wide extruded
aluminum blanks predrilled to accept vandal-proof hardware.
(g)
Required length of sign shall be determined
by the street name.
(h)
Post brackets and cross brackets for mounting
the signs must have a twelve-inch-long slot for securing the signs
and also be drilled to accept vandal-proof hardware.
(i)
The vandal-proof hardware shall consist of bolts
with a 12 pt socket head.
(j)
Sign post shall be galvanized, 10.5 feet by
two-and-one-quarter-inch OD by two-foot ID round posts.
(2) Location:
(a)
All street name signs should be located on the
corner opposite of where a stop sign will be;
(b)
Posts must be embedded in 24 inches to 30 inches
of concrete and two feet to five feet behind the curbs.
(3) Developers may install "custom made" street name signs.
The specifications shall be as follows:
(a)
Letter height must be six inches minimum for
uppercase letters and 4.5 inches for lowercase.
(b)
Letter width must be 1 1/2 inches minimum.
(c)
Letter stroke width must be 3/4 inch minimum.
(d)
Letter color must be white or white reflective
material.
(e)
The background color must be contrasting from
that of the letters.
(f)
All "custom made" street name signs shall be
the responsibility of the respective owners' association and shall
be identified in the owners' association documents. In the event that
a "custom made" sign, for any reason, may need to be replaced, it
shall be replaced in a reasonable amount of time or the Township may
replace it with a standard Township sign.
(4) Type of installation required:
(a)
Four-way signs shall be installed at all intersections
where at least one of the connecting roads is a through way that leads
to another street. If one of the streets has no outlet, then only
a two-way sign shall be required.
(b)
Two-way signs shall be installed at intersections
where none of the streets are through ways that lead to another street.
D. Final approval:
(1) All identification and traffic warning and regulatory
signage must be installed prior to the Township issuing any building
permits.
(2) Financial security shall not be released for the streets
until all signage installations receive final approval from the Township.
(3) When all signs have been installed, the developer
must request the Township to review the installations. The Township
will give written acceptance/denial.
(4) All developers must purchase and install all signs
on their own. The Township will not order, pay for, receive, store
or install any signs, posts, etc., for the developer.
Trees shall be of substantially uniform size
and shape, and have straight trunks. Trees shall be properly planted
and staked and provision made by the developer for regular watering
and maintenance until the development is complete, and Township acceptance
of streets. Dead and dying trees shall be replaced by the developer
during the next planting season after the initial planting. The following
construction standards shall be used during planting as approved by
the Township Engineer:
A. Evergreen/deciduous tree planting, Figure 416.1.
B. Shrub planting, Figure 416.2.
The maximum allowable slope on an embankment shall be two horizontal to one vertical (ratio). All embankments steeper than 2:1 shall require a retaining system. Reference Chapter
89, Grading, Excavation and Fill.