[Ord. No. 2021-01, 10/12/2022]
This Part is intended to ensure that all roads, intersections, nonresidential driveways, and marked crosswalks shall have an unobstructed sight distance along any approach to an intersecting roadway or crosswalk and shall be free of all physical obstructions interfering with the safe movement of vehicles, pedestrians, horse drawn vehicles or bicycles. A vision clearance triangle shall be created sufficient to allow drivers to avoid vehicle conflicts for all approaching vehicles traveling at or less than the maximum speed limit.
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CLEAR SIGHT TRIANGLE
Shall mean a generally triangular area that defines a zone necessary for the clear view by the driver of a motor vehicle, horse driven vehicle or bicyclist of oncoming cross-street motor vehicle, horse driven vehicle, bicycle or pedestrian traffic or traffic or of a traffic control devise and includes street intersection sight triangles, alley intersection sight triangles and traffic control sight triangles. "Clear view triangle" is another term used to designate a clear sight triangle.
CONTROLLED INTERSECTIONS
Shall mean an intersection of two or more streets at which there is an official traffic control device designating approaching traffic to stop or yield.
OWNER
Shall mean any person, agent, operator, firm or corporation having legal or equitable interest in the property; or recorded in the official records of a municipality as holding title to the property; or otherwise having control of the premises, including the guarding of the estate of any such person and the executor or the administrator of the estate of such person if ordered to take procession of real property by a court; any individual or mortgage holder who has foreclosed on a property, whether or not the deed has been transferred by the Sheriff of Chester County to that mortgage holder.
PHYSICAL OBSTRUCTION
Shall mean hedges, trees, shrubs or bushes, crops, plants, foliage, sign, pole, soil, fence, screen, billboard, structure, walls or other improvement either man-made or natural which has a height greater than 2 1/2 feet and lower than 10 feet so that the zone is the area between those heights as measured from the top of the curb or the edge of the street or sidewalk if no curb is present and which obstructs the visibility of pedestrian, bicycle, horse driven or motor vehicle traffic approaching an intersection, or official traffic control signs at an intersection or along a street. View obstruction shall also mean vehicles, including motorized and nonmotorized vehicles, parked within off-street parking facilities that encroach into a street intersection sight triangle and that have a height greater than 2 1/2 feet as measured from the top of the curb or the edge of the street or sidewalk if no curb is present at the intersection and which obstruct the visibility of pedestrian, bicycle, horse driven vehicle or motor vehicle traffic approaching an intersection.
TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNS
Are signs placed by East Nottingham Township or the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation for the regulation, warning and guiding of traffic traveling on a state or township road.
UNCONTROLLED INTERSECTION
Shall mean an intersection of two or more streets at which there are no official traffic control devices designating traffic to stop or yield.
VIEW OBSTRUCTION
Shall mean hedges, trees, shrubs or bushes, crops, plants, foliage, sign, pole, soil, fence, screen, billboard, structure, walls or other improvement either man-made or natural which has a height greater than 2 1/2 feet and lower than eight feet so that the zone is the area between those heights as measured from the top of the curb or the edge of the street or sidewalk if no curb is present and which obstructs the visibility of pedestrian, bicycle, horse driven or motor vehicle traffic approaching an intersection, or official traffic control signs at an intersection or along a street. View obstruction shall also mean vehicles, including motorized and nonmotorized vehicles, parked within off-street parking facilities that encroach into a street intersection sight triangle and that have a height greater than 2 1/2 feet as measured from the top of the curb or the edge of the street or sidewalk if no curb is present at the intersection and which obstruct the visibility of pedestrian, bicycle, horse driven vehicle or motor vehicle traffic approaching an intersection.
[Ord. No. 2021-01, 10/12/2022]
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No building, structure, planting, or other obstruction as defined in "view obstruction" in § 21-502 shall be permitted which would endanger public safety by obscuring sight visibility at street or non-residential driveway intersections.
2. 
At least a 100-foot clear sight triangle, but greater if the Township Roadmaster determines it necessary for safety, shall be maintained at all street intersections. The clear sight triangle shall be established by measuring from the intersection of the street center line along said center lines. Said clear sight lines shall be measured at a height from 2 1/2 feet to eight feet above of the surface of the street as defined above.
3. 
It shall be a violation of this Part for an owner to permit or have on its/his/her property conditions defined herein that cause a view obstruction.
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It shall be a violation of this Part for an owner to permit any object which overhangs any sidewalk, street or other public place in such a way as to impede or interfere with vehicular travel or pedestrian travel. Vegetation shall be trimmed or removed by the owner of the premises abutting or of the premises on which such vegetation grows so that the obstruction shall cease as determined by the Township Roadmaster. Any nonvegetative obstructions shall be removed as directed by the Roadmaster.
[Ord. No. 2021-01, 10/12/2022]
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The East Nottingham Township Roadmaster shall serve written notice, either personally or by certified mail on any person violating the provisions of this Part to remove the view obstruction or physical obstruction along any public street or public place or at the intersection of any public street within 10 days from the date of the notice.
2. 
Upon failure of said person to comply with such notice within 10 days or to request a hearing within that 10-day period before the Board of Supervisors of East Nottingham Township the property owner shall be liable for a fine of $1,000 per day beginning on the 11th day. Each day shall be treated as a separate violation and the violation shall continue until the owner of property removes the view obstruction or actual obstruction from the property.
3. 
The Board of Supervisors may also institute proceedings to enjoin violations of this Part as well as begin action to remove the dangerous condition from the property. The owner shall be liable for attorney's fees incurred by East Nottingham Township to enforce the Part.