[Adopted 7-2-1990 by Ord. No. 90-15]
A.
Wistar Avenue, a municipal roadway, runs approximately
north-south a distance of a few hundred feet north of Mason Drive
with its pavement terminating approximately two feet from the municipal
border with the Township of Edison. Several abutting homeowners within
the Borough have properties which front on the sidelines of Wistar
Avenue. Additionally, a portion of a property owned by a resident
within the Township of Edison, whose street address is 53 Bryant Avenue,
is, in part, nearly adjacent to the Borough boundary at the stub end
of Wistar Avenue.
B.
No portion of property whose address is 53 Bryant
Avenue in Edison is within the Borough. Nor has Wistar Avenue ever
been extended into the Township of Edison, and no agreement exists
with Edison to allow its extension at some future time. The property's
frontage on Bryant Avenue in Edison already affords a convenient means
of access to that Edison landholder.
C.
By this chapter, the Mayor and Council desire to end
the sporadic and previously quite intermittent access to the rear
of that Edison property from Wistar Avenue in Metuchen. For that purpose,
the Department of Public Works is directed to erect and maintain a
barrier at the end of the pavement on Wistar Avenue, and the Police
Department is directed to take all necessary action to enforce the
dead-end status of Wistar Avenue at the municipal line and to prevent
any interference with the maintenance of the barrier.
It shall be unlawful for any person to obtain
direct vehicular access to a dead-end municipal street in the Borough
where such property already possesses a noncircuitous means of access
to its property from the public street network of the Township of
Edison.
In accordance with the provisions of the preceding
section, the following street is hereby designated a roadway that
dead-ends at the municipal boundary and declares unlawful any attempt
to interfere with any barrier erected by the Borough of Metuchen to
prevent unlawful access to its street network by unauthorized persons.
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Name of Street
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Location
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Wistar Avenue
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North of Mason Drive, just south of the municipal
boundary with the Township of Edison
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