The provisions of this chapter shall apply to all principal
buildings within the Township of West Nantmeal and to each tract,
lot or parcel of land.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings as indicated in this section:
ACCESSORY BUILDING
A subordinate building, the use of which is customarily incidental
to that of the principal building and is used for an accessory use
and is located on the same lot.
PRINCIPAL BUILDING
Any building or structure erected on a tract, lot or parcel
of land on which any use is carried out, except an accessory building.
STREET
Any street, avenue, boulevard, road, highway, freeway, parkway,
lane, alley, viaduct and any other ways used or intended to be used
by vehicular traffic or pedestrians, whether public or private.
The owner or occupant of each tract, lot or parcel of land to
which no street address number has been previously assigned shall,
upon purchase, acquisition or occupancy thereof, or within seven days
of discovery that no such number has been assigned, make application
to the Township Secretary or her designated agent for assignment of
such number, and thereupon the Township Secretary shall assign a correct
street address number to the property.
The Township Secretary shall be responsible for assigning proper
street address number sequences to each lot which is created as the
result of a subdivision or resubdivision. Said number shall be in
proper municipal sequence in relation to the numbers assigned to other
lots fronting on the same street and shall be properly recorded on
the subdivision plan and the Township file.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
In order to comply with this chapter, street address numbers
shall be Arabic numerals or alphabet letters, a minimum of four inches
high, with a minimum stroke width of 0.5 inch and of contrasting color
and shall be mounted in a secure fashion to the principal building's
front wall or to a porch or other fixed appurtenance in front of the
principal building in the general vicinity of the main entryway or
main path of travel which leads to the main entrance from a public
street, or otherwise separately mounted in an approved manner upon
the face or wall or upon a post or mailbox in the front yard of the
premises. Where access is by means of a private road and the building
cannot be viewed from the public way, a monument, pole or other sign
or means shall be used to identify the structure. Auxiliary numbers
shall be mounted at a height between four feet and 10 feet upon the
adjacent grade or exterior landing beneath, but never higher than
15 feet above the adjoining grade. They shall be sufficiently legible
as to contrasting background, arrangement, spacing, size and uniformity
of integers so that the numbers may be read with ease during daylight
hours by a person possessing normal vision if he views the numbers
from the center line of the facing street. The numbers shall be so
placed that trees, shrubs and other obstructions do not block the
line of sight of the numbers from the center of the street to any
appreciable degree.
The final authority for determining and assigning the street number or numbers to be used upon any particular property, as well as the enforcement of this chapter, shall be in the office of the Township Secretary, her agent or such other person as provided for in §
60-3 of this chapter.