This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Mine Hill
Township Driveway Ordinance."
There shall be submitted with an application for a driveway permit the nonrefundable fees set forth in Chapter
235, Fees, payable to the Township of Mine Hill.
All driveways to be constructed, or existing driveways to be
altered, which intersect with the right-of-way line of any existing
or future public road shall be constructed or altered in accordance
with the following minimum requirements:
A. All driveways to be constructed or altered so as to slope from the
public road right-of-way line of any existing or future public road
shall be constructed or altered in accordance with the following minimum
requirements:
(1) Within the right-of-way limits, the finished grade of the driveway
shall be no greater than 6%.
(2) In instances where the driveway to be constructed or altered intersects
a roadway with a shoulder, the driveway grade shall be the grade of
the shoulder.
(3) The driveway shall slope upward from the gutter line on a straight
slope at least 10 feet long for residential driveways and 40 feet
long for commercial and industrial driveways, unless otherwise specified
by the Code Enforcement Officer or Township Engineer.
(4) No driveway shall be constructed to exceed a slope of 15%.
Those portions of driveways constructed or altered within public
roads or rights-of-way or within 25 feet of the center line of the
public roadway, whichever is greater, shall be constructed of the
following materials:
A. Residential driveways entering unpaved roads: six inches (compacted
thickness) of dense graded aggregate base course.
B. Residential driveways entering paved roads:
(1) Base course: four inches (compacted thickness) of dense graded aggregate
base course.
(2) Surface course: two inches (compacted thickness) of hot mix asphalt
9.5M64 surface course or approved equal.
C. Commercial driveways:
(1) Base course: four inches (compacted thickness) of dense graded aggregate
base course.
(2) Base course: four inches (compacted thickness) of hot mix asphalt
19M64 base course or approved equal.
(3) Surface course: two inches (compacted thickness) of hot mix asphalt
12.5M64 surface course or approved equal.
D. Industrial driveways:
(1) Base course: six inches (compacted thickness) of dense graded aggregate
base course.
(2) Base course: six inches (compacted thickness) of hot mix asphalt
19M64 base course or approved equal.
(3) Surface course: two inches (compacted thickness) of hot mix asphalt
12.5M64 surface course or approved equal.
E. Driveways entering curbed roads:
(1) Curbs crossing driveways shall be constructed or reconstructed to
provide a depression with a two-inch curb height relative to the edge
of the roadway pavement. The top of the depressed curb shall be sloped
down toward the roadway to provide a one-and-one-half-inch curb face.
(2) The total depth of concrete shall be maintained across the depression.
(3) Transitions from the depressed curb to the full-faced curb shall
be over a maximum length of 18 inches.