[Adopted 4-2-1946 by part of Ord.
No. 1475, effective 4-2-1946]
Upon the opening of a street or avenue to its
full width, each sidewalk being a part of such street or avenue shall
be 1/5 of the entire width of such street or avenue, or such width
as the Mayor and Council may direct in an ordinance authorizing the
opening of such street or avenue; provided, however, that where 1/5
of the street or avenue shall contain a fractional part of a foot,
then such fraction shall be placed in the roadway.
All streets and avenues shall be graded to their
full width, including sidewalks and slopes, and the grade of all streets
and avenues shall be the elevation of the top of the curb, unless
otherwise specified in an ordinance authorizing such grading.
[Amended 6-5-1956 by Ord. No. 1707; 11-23-2010 by Ord. No. 3214-10]
The owner of lands abutting upon any street
or avenue which is in use by the public as a thoroughfare or laid
down upon a map and about to be opened for use by the public as a
thoroughfare shall construct, maintain and keep in repair a concrete
or bluestone sidewalk in the area specified and allotted for sidewalks
at the sole cost and expense of said owner; provided, however, that
when approved by resolution of the Mayor and Council alternative surfaces
may be utilized; provided, however, that a driveway consisting of
a hard-top material other than concrete or bluestone may be constructed
in that portion of the sidewalk area not in use for a sidewalk; and
provided further, that in a business or industrial district, as delineated
in the ordinances concerning zoning,[1] a concrete sidewalk may be constructed in the entire area
allotted to sidewalks, or such part thereof as the Mayor and Council
shall approve upon written application being made for the same; and
provided further, that a hard-top material other than concrete or
bluestone may be used in the portion of the sidewalk area between
the space thereof specified and allotted for sidewalks and the property
line when the land adjacent thereto is used for an automobile service
station or a public or private parking lot and the land surface thereof,
not occupied by a building or buildings, is covered or paved with
a similar material; and further provided that the sidewalk area not
in use for a sidewalk shall not be covered with any hard-top material
other than as heretofore provided in this section without prior approval
therefore from the Mayor and Council.
[Added 7-2-1957 by Ord. No. 1722; amended 12-1-1998 by Ord. No. 2877-98]
All driveways extending through that portion
of a sidewalk area not in use for a sidewalk shall be covered with
a hard-top material. No person, firm, partnership, association or
corporation shall construct a driveway or resurface an existing driveway
unless such work is authorized by a written permit issued by the Building
Department.
[Added 2-1-1998 by Ord. No. 2877-98]
Any person, firm, partnership, association or
corporation desiring a permit for construction of a driveway or resurfacing
of an existing driveway shall make application therefor to the Building
Department, upon forms provided for that purpose, for each such driveway.
A separate application shall be made and a separate permit issued
for each driveway to be constructed or resurfaced by the permittee.
A.
The application shall show or include the following
information:
(1)
The name, address and telephone number of the
applicant.
(2)
The name, address and telephone number of the
owner of the property for whom the work is to be performed.
(3)
The location of the property at which the work
is to be performed.
(4)
The extent and nature of the work to be performed.
(5)
An accurate survey of the property on which
shall be depicted the proposed driveway, including dimensions of same.
The grade of a sidewalk shall be according to
the standard established by the Borough Engineer.
When bluestone curb is used, the depth of a
gutter shall not exceed six inches where a sixteen-inch curb is used,
and where the volume of water requires a deeper gutter than six inches,
a twenty-inch curb shall be used. When concrete curb is used, it shall
be 20 inches deep and in accordance with standards set up by the Borough
Engineer.
Before commencing the work of constructing curbs,
paving gutters or laying sidewalks, the lines or grades for the same
must first be obtained from the Borough Engineer.
The construction of curbs, paving of gutters
and the laying of sidewalks, together with the materials of the same,
shall be in accordance with the standards set by the Borough Engineer,
and said construction shall be under the direction of said Borough
Engineer.
