[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the Township of Moore 1-3-2005 by Ord. No. 2005-1. Amendments noted where applicable.]
ATTACHMENTS
Attachment 1 - Exhibit A, Plan and Section-Typical Residential Driveway
The following terms shall be defined as follows:
BLACKTOP
To construct a driveway of a hard, nonerodible material. For the purpose of this chapter, blacktop shall be considered, but not limited to, asphalt cement concrete (bituminous concrete) or portland cement concrete.
CONSTRUCT
To build or cause to be built.
DRIVEWAY
Any accessway proposed for regular use of ingress and egress to an adjacent property from a public roadway. For the purposes of this chapter, an accessway is to be considered a driveway no matter what the existing or proposed surface condition.
PAVE
To build or cause to be built a driveway out of blacktop material. This term is applicable either during the initial construction of a driveway or upon placing blacktop on an existing driveway's nonblacktop surface.
REPAVE
To construct or cause the construction of a new blacktop surface on an existing driveway. This can include either paving over existing blacktop or removing existing blacktop and placing new blacktop in its place.
[Amended 2-4-2025 by Ord. No. 2025-2]
No person shall hereafter construct, blacktop, pave or repave driveways or alleyways which connect with or intersect or enter upon any public road or street in the Township until a driveway permit ("permit") has been obtained from the Township Zoning Officer. A permit shall be required if a driveway initially constructed as stone is paved. A proposed paved driveway subgrade shall be approved by the Township Public Works Director, or designee, prior to paving installation.
[Amended 2-4-2025 by Ord. No. 2025-2]
All requests for permits shall be made in writing to the Township Zoning Officer or designee, executed by all owners of the subject property, and shall be accompanied by such plan as is sufficient to show intended construction and compliance with the provisions of this chapter.
[Amended 2-4-2025 by Ord. No. 2025-2]
No driveway permit shall be issued unless it meets the following standards:
A. 
Separation distance.
(1) 
Minimum distance between any nonresidential driveway and any other driveway on either side of the street shall be 40 feet.
(2) 
Minimum distance between a driveway center line and the center line of a side street shall be as follows:
(a) 
Residential driveways:
[1] 
Seventy-five feet if side street is a local street;
[2] 
One hundred feet if side street is a collector street;
[3] 
One hundred fifty feet if side street is an arterial street.
(b) 
Nonresidential driveways:
[1] 
One hundred fifty feet if side street is a local street;
[2] 
Two hundred feet if side street is a collector street;
[3] 
Three hundred feet if side street is an arterial street.
(3) 
Minimum distance from a side property line to the edge of a driveway shall be five feet (except for single-family attached developments).
B. 
Minimum driveway width for residential driveways shall be 10 feet; maximum width shall be 20 feet (not including return radii) at the intersection of driveway and Township road right-of-way. Permits for existing driveways in excess of 20 feet in width shall be issued at the discretion of the Zoning Officer. In the event the owner wishes to appeal the decision of the Zoning Officer, the owner may seek relief from the Board of Supervisors. Minimum driveway width for nonresidential driveways shall comply with Chapter 300, Zoning, and Chapter 260, Subdivision and Land Development, both of the Code of the Township of Moore.
C. 
Driveway grades shall not exceed 15% (maximum of seven inches in four feet)), except that a driveway that:
(1) 
Enters onto an arterial street: the first 20 feet from the street right-of-way shall have a maximum slope of 4% (maximum of two inches in four feet) and the next 80 feet shall have a maximum slope of 7% (maximum 3 1/2 inches in four feet).
(2) 
Enters onto any other street: the first 20 feet from the street right-of-way shall have a maximum slope of 7% (maximum of 3 1/2 inches in four feet).
D. 
Uninterrupted parallel drainage along the street accessed by a driveway shall be maintained across the driveway. Piping within the public road or street right-of-way shall not be allowed unless:
(1) 
The Township-approved subdivision and/or land development plan specifically allows the use of a piping design which has been sealed by a professional engineer and approved by the Township.
(2) 
The applicant submits a drainage plan prepared and sealed by a professional engineer, which includes the sizing of the pipe for a ten-year-storm flow and shows details for grading modifications within the roadside swale. This plan shall be reviewed by the Township Engineer. All costs for review shall be paid by the applicant.
E. 
Intersection of a driveway pavement and street pavement shall be rounded by an arc of not less than five-foot radius.
F. 
Available sight distance shall comply with current PENNDOT standards.
G. 
Plan shall be submitted in conformity and meeting the standards as set forth in Exhibit "A," which is attached hereto and incorporated herein.[1]
[1]
Editor's note: Said exhibit is included as an attachment to this chapter.
H. 
In no case shall driveway water be permitted to flow directly or indirectly onto the cartway of a public street or road.
I. 
Upon completion of driveway installation, the applicant must notify the Township within five days.
All requests for a driveway permit shall be accompanied by a fee per the Fee Schedule adopted by the Board of Supervisors, which shall be payable to the Township of Moore.
[Amended 2-4-2025 by Ord. No. 2025-2]
The Township Zoning Officer shall keep a record of all such driveway permits issued, and a copy shall be furnished on request to any person having a proprietary or tenancy interest in the land affected.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III)]
Any person who violates or permits a violation of this chapter shall, upon conviction in a summary proceeding brought before a Magisterial District Judge under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, be guilty of a summary offense and shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000, plus costs of prosecution. In default of payment thereof, the defendant may be sentenced to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days. Each day or portion thereof that such violation continues or is permitted to continue shall constitute a separate offense, and each section of this chapter that is violated shall also constitute a separate offense.
In case any driveway or alleyway is constructed in violation of this chapter, the Township of Moore, in addition to other remedies, may initiate any appropriate action or proceedings to prevent such unlawful construction, to restrain, correct or abate such violation, or prevent the use of such driveways or alleyway, or occupancy of any premises containing a driveway or alleyway violative of this chapter.
The provisions of this chapter shall be severable, and if any provision hereof shall be declared unconstitutional, illegal or invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of any of the remaining provisions of this chapter. It is hereby declared as a legislative intent of the Township that this chapter would have been amended as if such unconstitutional, illegal or invalid provision or provisions had not been included herein.