It shall be unlawful for any person to make any excavation in
or remove the surface of any municipally controlled road or street
in the Borough of North Arlington for any purpose whatsoever, or to
store any material within the right-of-way limits of any municipally
controlled road or street in the Borough for any purpose whatsoever,
without a written permit first having been obtained from the Construction
Code Department hereinafter provided.
Any person having entered into a construction contract with
the Borough to lay and construct pipes, conduits or other structures
in municipally controlled roads or streets shall be governed by the
provisions of the construction contract and shall be exempt from the
provisions of this article.
A permittee shall obtain a separate permit for each 150 linear
feet, or part thereof, of a block segment and for each intersection
where work is to be performed.
No street opening activity shall be allowed, except for emergency
work or as authorized by the Borough Council, in an area that will
disrupt or impact in any way streetscape improvements, unless permittee,
in addition to satisfying all other requirements of this article,
shall satisfy the following requirements before a permit shall issue.
A. Permit issuance. Applicants for an excavation and street opening
permit in a streetscape improvement area shall submit the following
documents to the Construction Code Enforcement Department;
(1)
Plans, at proper scale, illustrating the proposed work;
(2)
Photographs of the streetscape improvements which will be impacted
by the proposed work and the areas immediately adjacent thereto (collectively,
the "streetscape area") as it exists at the time of the application
for the permit;
(3)
A utility markout within the streetscape area;
(4)
A written agreement to completely restore the streetscape area
within a specified number of calendar days after the first disruption
thereof to the condition it was in at the time it was first completed.
The selected period of time is subject to the approval of a representative
of the Construction Code Enforcement Department;
(5)
Specifications, matching those used to construct the streetscape
improvements in the first place, for the complete restoration of any
and all bituminous paving, concrete sidewalks, concrete curbs, brick
pavers, bollards, light poles, benches, trash receptacles, planters,
sign posts and all other aspects of the streetscape improvements that
may be disrupted or impacted in any way by such work;
(6)
An itemized and detailed estimate of the cost of the proposed
work, including the cost of the complete restoration of the streetscape
area, prepared by the applicant's architect or engineer;
(7)
A written agreement to submit photographs of the streetscape
area once the Construction Code Enforcement representative has approved
the complete restoration of the streetscape area.