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. Property access shall be provided by not less than
one nor more than two driveways for each 100 feet of street or private
road frontage.
B. No driveways serving single-family dwellings shall
be closer to each other than 12 feet, and no driveway shall be closer
to a side property line than three feet. No flare shall cross an extended
side property line.
C. Each driveway shall be stabilized and shall be not
less than 10 feet in width nor 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 governing body,
this dimension may be increased for driveways into shopping centers
or other commercial, industrial, public, multifamily or institutional
uses.
E. Driveways shall not cross the street right-of-way
within 15 feet of a fire hydrant, or within five feet of a catch basin
or drain inlet.
F. Driveways shall not cross the street right-of-way
for other than single and two-family type uses within 40 feet of another
driveway on the sane lot, excepting 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 two access
drives.
G. Driveways shall not cross the street right-of-way
for all multifamily developments and in all 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 nonresidential uses, where there is an existing
curb and gutter or sidewalk on the street or private road, a safety
island along the entire frontage of the property shall be provided,
except for the permitted driveways. On the two ends and street/private
road side of each such island shall be constructed a concrete curb,
the height, location, and structural specifications of which shall
be approved by the Township Engineer.
I. For nonresidential uses, where there is no existing
curb and gutter or sidewalk; a curb, fence, or landscaping not less
than eight inches and not more than two feet in height shall be constructed
along the entire length of the property line, except in front of the
permitted driveway.
J. 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 1/2 foot vertical to one foot horizontal within 10 feet of the
point the drive intersects with the right-of-way line.
K. 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.
Gasoline pumps and all other service equipment
shall be set back not less than 25 feet from any lot or right-of-way
line and shall be so positioned that vehicles stopped for service
will not extend over any such line.