Wherever motor vehicle access is provided from the street or
private road onto the lot, the following regulations shall apply.
Access to the lot shall comply with the following regulations:
A. Access shall be by not more than two driveways for each 100 feet
frontage on any street.
B. No two of said driveways shall be closer to each other than 12 feet,
and no driveway shall be closer to a side property line than three
feet, and no flare shall cross an extended side property line.
C. Each driveway shall be paved and shall be not more than 35 feet in
width, measured at right angles to the center line of the driveway,
except as increased by permissible curb return radii. The entire flare
of any return radius shall fall within the right-of-way.
D. Driveways shall not cross the street right-of-way line within 40
feet of the street right-of-way line of an intersecting street and
in no case less than 10 feet from the point of tangency when the intersecting
street lines are joined by a curve. Notwithstanding the above and
when deemed necessary for safety by the Planning Commission and/or
the Borough Council, this dimension shall be increased for driveways
into shopping centers or other commercial, industrial, public or institutional
uses.
E. Driveways shall not cross the street right-of-way within five feet
of fire hydrant, catch basin or drain inlet.
F. Driveways shall not cross the street right-of-way within 40 feet
of another driveway on the same lot, except that in the case where
dual access drives are deemed necessary to permit safe ingress and
egress, these dimensions may be reduced to not less than 12 feet between
access drives.
G. Driveways shall not cross the street right-of-way in all multifamily,
commercial and industrial districts within 20 feet of a property line,
unless two adjoining property owners mutually agree in a legally recorded
instrument to a common driveway.
H. For nondwelling uses, where there is an existing curb and gutter
or sidewalk on the street, a safety island along the entire frontage
of the property shall be provided, except for the permitted driveways.
On the two ends and street side of each such island shall be constructed
a concrete curb, the height, location and structural specifications
of which shall be approved by the Municipal Engineer. Maximum and
minimum curb return radii permitted and minimum driveway approach
angles to the center line of the street are required as shown on Plate
1,
attached to this chapter and made by this reference as much a part
of this chapter as if fully described and detailed herein.
I. For nondwelling uses, where there is no existing curb and gutter
or sidewalk, a curb, fence or pipe rail not exceeding two feet nor
less than eight inches in height, as shown on Plate 1, attached to
this chapter, shall be constructed along the entire length of the property
line, except in front of the permitted driveways.
J. For commercial and industrial districts when deemed necessary to
permit safe ingress and egress, acceleration and deceleration lanes
paralleling the street shall be installed at the expense of the property
owners.
K. General safety requirements; sight distance. Driveways shall be located
in safe relationship to sight distance and barriers to vision, and
shall not exceed a slope of 10% within 12 feet of the street line.
Where drives enter a bank through a cut, unless a retaining wall is
used, the side slopes of the cut shall be graded to not more than
one-half-foot vertical to one-foot horizontal within 10 feet of the
point the drive intersects with the right-of-way line.
L. Submission of plan. A scale drawing of proposed off-street parking
and loading areas, access drives and walks shall be submitted as part
of the required plot plan. Any plan requiring access onto a state
highway shall be approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
in addition to Borough Council approval.