[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.
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Editor's Note: See Ch. 186, Zoning, more specifically Art. VI, Special Regulations; Permitted Modifications and Conditional Uses.
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.