[Adopted 3-7-1989 by Ord. No. 1059]
No person, firm or corporation, whether public,
private or municipal, except the Township of Wyckoff, shall construct,
repair or replace a curb, sidewalk or driveway entrance without first
applying for and obtaining a permit from the Township Building Department
on approval by the Township Engineer. No such work shall be performed
in any given year before April 1 or after November 30.
No curb, sidewalk or driveway entrance apron
shall be constructed, repaired or replaced within the Township unless
it conforms in design and construction to standard details and; specifications
reviewed and approved by the Township Engineer and approved by the
Township Committee, is of the quality therein specified and is installed
as hereinafter provided. Except as otherwise stated herein, the Township
Engineer and the Township Committee shall determine whether a bituminous
concrete or a concrete curb, driveway entrance or sidewalk shall be
required.
No person shall construct a curb, sidewalk or
driveway entrance apron except under the supervision of the Township
Engineer. Upon failure to meet the requirements of the Township, the
permit issued for the work may be canceled, and the permittee shall
be subject to the penalty provisions of this article.
The Township Building Department shall be given
at least twenty-four hours' prior notice of the intention to begin
construction or replacement of a curb, sidewalk or driveway entrance.
No work shall be performed on Saturdays and Sundays or holidays unless
approved by the Township Engineer. Once construction has been started,
the work shall be carried to completion. In the event that work is
delayed for a period in excess of five days, the Township Building
Department shall be given notice of such delay and, in addition, shall
be given at least 24 hours' notice prior to resumption of work.
No person shall pour or permit to have poured
the concrete for a curb, sidewalk or driveway apron until the forms
for the same have been inspected, in place, by the Township Building
Department.
When specified by the Township Building Department,
the contractor or other person in charge of pouring concrete shall
notify the Township Building Department before pouring so that cylinders
of sample concrete may be taken in the presence of a Building Department
official and test results obtained by the contractor at the contractor's
expense. Repairs necessitated by the taking of such samples shall
be completed at the contractor's or owner's expense. The Building
Department may have a sample tested by a reputable testing laboratory,
and, if the results show a compressive strength of less than 3,500
pounds per square inch air-entrained, the installer of the sidewalk,
curb or apron shall be required to remove and reinstall the concrete
in accordance with Township specifications. One such sample may be
taken for each installation of 100 feet or less of curb or sidewalk.
A.
All concrete used shall be ready-mix transit concrete,
except when the requirements of the project are less than one cubic
yard.
B.
Sidewalks and driveway entrances constructed of concrete
shall be installed in one pouring and shall meet a compression strength
of 3,500 pounds per square inch air-entrained after 28 days when tested
under standard conditions. All sidewalks and aprons shall be laid
on firm, compacted soil, subject to inspection by the Township Building
Department. In instances where the inspector determines that the ground
conditions require a subbase, the contractor or property owner may
be required to add a gravel or sand subbase, not exceeding four inches
after compaction, before concrete is laid. In rejoining a curb for
construction of a driveway entrance or to replace a damaged section,
the entire section of curb shall be removed and reconstructed.
C.
Residential zones. Concrete for sidewalks shall be
not less than four inches in thickness laid in slabs four feet wide
by five feet in length, longitudinal with the curbline, with a pitch
of 1/4 inch per foot each 10 feet of length, separated from adjoining
slabs by a strip of approved bituminous impregnated fiber, 1/4 inch
by four inches by four feet, extending to within 1/4 inch of the finished
surface of the sidewalk. Concrete in the sidewalk area of the driveway
shall be not less than six inches thick. Driveway entrance slabs or
aprons shall be no less than six inches in thickness and separated
from sidewalk and curb by an approved bituminous impregnated strip.
At the curbline, the apron may exceed the width of the sidewalk line
by the distance between the curb and the sidewalk. In addition, the
width of the transition from drop curb to normal height curb at each
side may not be more than 12 inches. No driveway entrance shall be
constructed within 25 feet of an adjacent street or a corner or existing
driveway. No exception shall be permitted without the written approval
of the Township Committee upon hardship or certain additional circumstances
being shown.
D.
Business zones. All sidewalks in the B-1, B-2, B-3,
B-4, B-5, B-1A and R-15 senior citizen zones shall be constructed
of concrete, except as may be required for compliance with the Township
of Wyckoff Central Business Triangle Streetscape Master Plan, as prepared
by Volmer Associates, dated October 1987, as implemented by Ordinance
1021 and the current provisions of the Wyckoff Zoning Code.[1] Concrete for sidewalks shall be five inches in thickness and shall conform to all other concrete specifications indicated above in Subsections A, B and C. Driveway entrance aprons, in addition to the specifications above, shall be reinforced with six-inch-by-six-inch wire mesh, 10-10 gauge wire, placed four inches below the finished concrete.
E.
Curbing. Concrete curbing shall be seven inches wide
on top, nine inches at the bottom and 20 inches in depth. The backface
at the curb shall be vertical. Concrete curbing shall be constructed
in sections not longer than 10 feet separated by approved bituminous
impregnated strips not less than 1/2 inch thick. All concrete shall
have a compressive strength of 3,500 pounds per square inch after
28 days when tested under standard conditions.
F.
The concrete shall be placed in a professional, workmanlike
manner, with a smooth wood-float finish or broom finish for sidewalks
and steel trowel finish for curbs. Sidewalks, curbs and driveway aprons
shall be properly cured and protected against sun and frost. The permittee
shall clean up and remove promptly from the site of the work upon
completion thereof, all surplus excavative material and debris and
shall leave the site of the work in a neat and orderly condition.
Where topsoil, seeded areas or sod are disturbed in the course of
the work, the permittee shall restore such ground surface to its original
condition. The permittee, at his own expense, shall carry out the
work as expeditiously as possible and in such manner so as to cause
the least possible inconvenience and to permit the use of the sidewalk
by pedestrians and roadway by vehicles and the flow of water along
the gutters.
G.
All installers of concrete shall affix upon the surface
of the concrete at least once for every 100 feet or less of concrete
laid the name of the installer, the date of the installation and the
permit number. Such information may be affixed to the concrete by
means of a stamp, which conforms to industry standards such as that
manufactured by Everhot Manufacturing Company, Maywood, Illinois,
or equal.
H.
All installers of concrete shall be responsible for
protecting the concrete from damage caused by hot or cold weather.
By way of example, but not limitation, in hot weather concrete shall
be sprayed with an approved curing compound or covered with plastic.
In cold weather, heated concrete shall be used and shall be protected
with insulated blankets. Calcium-chloride-type products or antifreeze
shall not be added to concrete.
No person shall place or permit to have placed
the bituminous concrete for a sidewalk or curb until the area into
which the bituminous concrete is to be placed has been inspected by
the Township Building Department.
The contractor or other person in charge of
placing the bituminous concrete shall notify the Township Building
Department before it is placed so that a sample of the bituminous
concrete may be taken. The bituminous concrete mix design shall meet
New Jersey Department of Transportation specifications for bituminous
concrete from an approved plant. If the test results show that the
bituminous concrete is not in accordance with the Township of Wyckoff
and Department of Transportation specifications, the installer shall
be required to remove and reinstall the bituminous concrete in accordance
with such specifications.
A.
All bituminous concrete sidewalks shall be composed
of four inches of dense graded aggregate base course (quarry process)
compacted and a top layer of two inches of FABC Mix 5. The bituminous
concrete's temperature shall be sufficiently high to produce a workmanlike,
smooth result which is properly compacted.
B.
The installer shall maintain an even thickness of
bituminous concrete across the entire width of the bituminous concrete.
The area in which the bituminous concrete is to be placed shall be
dug out to a depth of six inches and evenly to the sides. The width
of the sidewalk shall be four feet unless otherwise specified by the
Township Engineer. The area in which the bituminous concrete is to
be placed shall be demarcated by string lines. Before any bituminous
concrete is placed, the Township Engineer is to be notified so that
he may inspect the area to be paved with the string lines in place.
C.
At the end of the workday or at the end of a section
of bituminous concrete sidewalk, the installer shall square off the
end of the sidewalk so as to provide a neat working joint for future
sections.
All sidewalks hereafter constructed or reconstructed
on public or private property, for public use, within the Township
shall be constructed in a manner that will facilitate use by physically
handicapped persons. At points of intersection between pedestrian
and motorized lines of travel and at other points where necessary
to avoid abrupt changes in grade, the sidewalk shall slope gradually
to street level so as to provide an uninterrupted line of travel.
The construction, reconstruction or repair of
driveway aprons, curbs and sidewalks abutting private property shall
be the duty of the abutting landowner and shall be accomplished at
the expense of such abutting landowner. This duty shall extend to
construction, reconstruction or repairs made necessary by normal wear
and tear, roots of trees growing in a municipal street right-of-way
or any other cause.
The Township of Wyckoff may, in its notice,
specify whether a sidewalk is to be concrete, bituminous concrete
or other materials as may be required pursuant to implementation of
the Central Business Triangle Streetscape Master Plan. Wherever it
appears to the Township Committee on advice of the Township Engineer,
or on its own motion, that it is necessary or advisable in the public
interest to construct, reconstruct or repair a driveway apron, curb
or sidewalk, the Township Committee shall adopt a resolution so finding
and shall in such resolution direct that notice be given to the owner
of the abutting lands, specifying the work required to be done and
requiring the abutting owner to accomplish the same in a period of
not less than 45 days from the date of service of the notice. In the
event that the abutting lands are unoccupied or the owner cannot be
found within the Township, the notice shall be mailed, postage prepaid,
to the owners post office address if it can be ascertained. In the
event that the abutting owner is a nonresident of the Township and
his post office address or the address as shown on the tax rolls of
the Township cannot be ascertained, then the notice may be inserted
once a week for four weeks in a newspaper circulating in the Township.
In the event that the owner or occupant fails
to comply with the requirements of the notice, the Township Engineer,
upon filing of proof of service or publication of the aforesaid notice
in the office of the Township Clerk, shall cause the required work
to be done and paid for out of the municipal funds available for that
purpose.
Upon performance of the required work by the
Township of Wyckoff, the cost of the work shall be certified by the
Township Engineer to the Tax Assessor. Upon the filing of the certificate,
the amount reflected therein shall become a lien upon the abutting
lands in front of which such work was done, to the same extent that
assessments for local improvements are liens and shall be collected,
in the manner provided by law for the collection of assessments, and
shall bear interest at the same rate. A certified copy of the aforesaid
certificate shall be prima facie proof of the existence of a debt
due from said owner to the municipality in an action to recover the
amount owed.
Payment for work required under this article
may be made in the same manner as local improvements made in installments,
or in a single sum, as determined by the Township Committee. If any
such installment remains unpaid for 30 days, the whole assessment
shall become due immediately. Whenever any owner or occupant is given
the privilege of paying an assessment in installments, such assessment
shall remain a lien upon the land described therein until the same,
with all installments and accrued interest thereon, are paid.
In the event that an owner defaults in the payment
of an assessment or the payment of an installment thereof, where applicable,
the Township may proceed against him in an action at law.
All work performed under the terms of this article
shall be under the supervision and direction of the Township Engineer
and subject to his approval.
A.
This section is enacted pursuant to the authority
of Chapter 297 of the Laws of 1970, N.J.S.A. 40:65-1 et seq.
B.
The Building Department shall have the right to revoke
or cancel the permit at any time, should the permittee fail to comply
with any of the terms, agreements, covenants and conditions thereof.
C.
The permit shall not be assigned or transferred except
upon the prior written consent of the Township Engineer.
Any person who violates any provision of this
article or a condition of any permit issued pursuant to this article
shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not to exceed
the sum of $1,000 or imprisonment for a term not to exceed 90 days,
or both.
