[Adopted 12-8-1975 by L.L. No. 4-1975 as Appendix 2 of the
1975 Code]
It is the purpose of these specifications to
establish minimum acceptable standards of street construction for
subdivisions which have been established by the Town of Blooming Grove
to conform to legal requirements in the State of New York, which requirements
and standards must be met and paid for by the person or firm proposing
that the Town take over such road as a Town road. These specifications
include, but are not limited to, width, design, drainage, construction
of base and pavement, curbs and monuments. Dedication of the right-of-way
will not be accepted until the developer's professional engineer and
the Town Superintendent of Highways and Town Engineer shall have certified
to the Town Board, in writing, that the construction of the street
or road has been completed in accordance with the approved plans and
specifications that follow, and that the total right-of-way area has
been cleared of all debris and all construction completed in a workmanlike
manner. When new road rights-of-way are offered to the Town for dedication,
two copies of the final plan and deed description of the right-of-way
shall be submitted to the County Superintendent of Highways for approval.
In his written certification, as required above,
the developer's professional engineer shall state clearly that he
or his authorized representative has inspected all phases of the street
construction and that all work has been completed in accordance with
the approved plans and specifications.
A.
A plan of the proposed street shall be prepared by
a qualified professional engineer or qualified land surveyor licensed
by the State of New York. The plan shall clearly define the limits
of the proposed right-of-way by metes and bounds and shall include
the location, widths, profiles and grades of the proposed roadway,
storm drainage including culverts and other drainage structures and
the location of all easements and utilities. The plans shall also
indicate the owner of the property and name of the developer, if other
than owner. One copy each of the plans shall be submitted to the Town
Superintendent of Highways and Town Engineer at the time of application
to make such road a Town road, and to the County Superintendent of
Highways when said proposed street drains toward, intersects or may
otherwise affect a County highway. It will then be submitted to the
Town Planning Board for review and approval under the applicable subdivision
regulations of the Town.[1] Such roadway must not be subject to any right or easement
in others which will in any way interfere with its use as a road at
all times. Such roadway must be granted to the Town by a full covenant
and warranty deed containing the correct metes and bounds description
as shown on the approved map, which deed must be in such form as may
be required to entitle the same to be recorded in the Office of the
County Clerk of Orange County, and the filing fees must be paid by
the applicant.
B.
Permanent and temporary easements must be furnished
in said deed granting to the Town the right to maintain all outlets
for surface water or natural stream drainage which will run from such
roadway over private property to a point where a natural watercourse
exists and to which such outlet and easement will carry such water.
A minimum of 20 feet width of easement shall be required for the maintenance
of said easements.
C.
The proposed roadway must be constructed to conform
to the minimum requirements and standards set forth below. The minimum
width to be cleared shall include all trees, rock formations, buildings,
walls and any such things that would endanger those using such roadway.
The removal of such obstructions shall be borne by the person or firm
proposing such road.
Plans submitted shall not be altered or amended
after having been approved by the Town unless amended plans are resubmitted
and approved. However, the developer, at his own expense, shall provide
additional storm drainage facilities or utilities as may be ordered
by the Town Superintendent of Highways and the Town Engineer, if during
the course of construction in the opinion of the Town Superintendent
of Highways, the Town Engineer and/or the County Superintendent of
Highways such additional structures or facilities are necessary to
prevent any need for future installations of utilities or culverts
within the pavement area, to assure the durability of pavement, future
maintenance of right-of-way, or welfare and safety of the public,
except that the Town Planning Board may vary the requirements of such
an order where there are practical difficulties in the way of carrying
out to the letter of such order; unless such variance conflicts with
the provisions of a Town or County official drainage map, in which
event the official map shall prevail. If construction of said road
has not been started within one year from the date of final approval
by the Town Planning Board, plans shall be resubmitted and approved
as above.
Adequate performance and maintenance bonds shall be provided in accordance with Chapter 210, Subdivision of Land.
A.
The Town Planning Board shall determine and designate
into which of the two following classifications each proposed subdivision
street falls on the basis of one or more of the criteria hereinafter
set forth.
B.
Final plans shall be drawn to show and the developer
shall construct each street in accordance with the particular specifications
for its designated classification as hereinafter set forth, as well
as in accordance with the specifications common to all classifications.
B.
Rural-type streets. The proposed street will serve residential subdivisions with lot size of 40,000 square feet or more, or with smaller lot sizes if not more than 10 lots are to be developed in the subdivision, and when rezoning to smaller lot size is not designated in Chapter 235, Zoning, or contemplated in the Comprehensive Plan.
The widths of roads shall be as follows:
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Right-of-Way
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Pavement
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Suburban:
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Collector
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60 feet
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40 feet
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Local access
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50 feet
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30 feet
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Rural:
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Collector
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50 feet
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30 feet
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Local access
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50 feet
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24 feet
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A.
The developer shall establish and clearly mark on
site the limits of road right-of-way and easements with concrete monuments;
and the center line and grades of the finished road pavement and the
location and elevations of drainage structures as shown on the approved
plans with construction stakes. Such construction stakes shall be
maintained at the developer's expense until the construction of road
pavement, drainage structures, curbs, sidewalks and shoulders has
been completed, inspected and approved by the Town Superintendent
of Highways and the Town Engineer.
B.
Permanent concrete monuments shall be set on right-of-way
lines of streets at all intersections, angle points, points of curvature
and beginning and end of streets. There shall be a clear view of adjacent
monuments on the right-of-way line. All monuments shall exist on completion
of the construction of the streets. The permanent markers shall be
made of concrete or granite with minimum dimensions of 30 inches long,
four-inch square top and six-inch square bottom with a 1/2 inch drilled
hole in the top with a brass plug inserted. If a monument should be
located in a rock ledge, the surface shall be stripped and a 1/2 inch
steel rod drilled into the ledge. Monuments shall protrude three inches
above the final graded surface.
C.
The developer's engineer or licensed surveyor shall
certify that the location of all monuments is accurate before acceptance
of the street by the Town Board.
A.
The developer shall complete the shaping of the road
right-of-way, streams and ditches and easement areas to the line and
grade as shown on the approved plans and as otherwise may be directed
by the Town Superintendent of Highways and the Town Engineer. In the
construction of the roadway, all topsoil, loam, rocks and organic
material shall be removed until a satisfactory subbase is established.
In fills of less than three feet, all topsoil shall be excavated and
removed. All fills shall be made with acceptable material as approved
by the Town Superintendent of Highways and the Town Engineer. Such
fills shall be made in layers of not more than 18 inches each and
properly compacted with an approved self-propelled roller weighing
not less than 10 tons.
B.
The subgrade shall be shaped to line and grade with
no depressions. Any soft or unstable portions of the subgrade which
develop under the roller shall be completely excavated and removed
from the right-of-way and shall be replaced with acceptable granular
material, and the area regraded and compacted as above. No large stones
or rock ledges shall protrude into the foundation course.
C.
Also, before the curbs and foundation course are laid,
all storm and sanitary sewers and all utilities, including house connections
for exiting and future homes, hydrants, gas, electric and telephone
lines, shall have been installed to the satisfaction of the Town Superintendent
of Highways and Town Engineer. All slopes and sidewalk areas shall
be graded before the foundation course is made and all loose and exposed
stones will be removed.
If in the opinion of the Town Superintendent
of Highways and Town Engineer it is necessary to intercept and carry
away groundwater within the limits of the right-of-way, to protect
the stability of the road bed, curb or sidewalk areas, the subdrainage
required by the Town Superintendent of Highways and Town Engineer
shall be installed. Perforated pipe or porous wall pipe having a minimum
diameter of four inches, encased in 12 inches of 3/4 inch clean crushed
stone or crushed gravel, shall be used for such purpose in amount
deemed necessary by the Town Superintendent of Highways and Town Engineer.
On all streets, six-inch portland cement concrete
curbs shall be constructed on both sides of the street, prior to laying
street pavement to the dimensions and specifications shown in Figure
1.[1] A base course of four inches minimum of 1/2 inch or 3/8
inch crushed stone or gravel shall be laid under all curbing. An air-entrained
concrete mix of 3,500 pounds per square inch after 28 days (certified
to by a testing laboratory) shall be used and shall be finished and
cured to the satisfaction of the Town Superintendent of Highways and
Town Engineer. At least two standard concrete testing cylinders must
be prepared and tested at 28 days for each days placement of concrete.
Test reports shall be filed at the office of the Town Engineer. The
developer, at his own expense, shall replace any curbing that has
settled, cracked, scaled or has become damaged in any way by the developer
before and within the one-year maintenance period after dedication.
Curbs shall be depressed four inches at all driveways. Stone curbs
or precast curbs may be substituted on approval of the Town Superintendent
of Highways and Town Engineer.
[1]
Editor's Note: Figure 1 is on file in the
Town offices.
A.
After the rough grade and all the curbs have been
constructed to the satisfaction of the Town Superintendent of Highways
and the Town Engineer, the developer shall furnish and place a foundation
course of approved run-of-bank gravel, crusher run stone or crusher
run gravel, to the minimum depth of eight inches. All materials acceptable
for this course shall be hard, durable and sound and shall be well
graded from coarse to fine, the maximum diameter of the large particles
not exceeding three inches, not more than 70% by weight pass the 40-mesh
sieve, and not more than 10% by weight pass the 200-mesh sieve. A
certified analysis of granular material will be filed with the Town
Engineer.
B.
The materials shall be placed on the finished subgrade
by means of mechanical spreaders and shall be thoroughly compacted
by rolling with a self-propelled ten-ton roller. Water shall be added
to the materials in such amounts as the Town Superintendent of Highways
and the Town Engineer may consider necessary for proper compaction.
After compaction, the course shall be true to grade and cross sections,
and any depressions shall be eliminated by the use of additional granular
materials, thoroughly rolled in place. In all cases, the foundation
course must be so thoroughly compacted that it will not weave under
the roller.
C.
A minimum period of three months shall elapse between
preparation of the foundation course and the laying of the base course
to allow settling. Any depressions which appear in this period shall
be filled and compacted as required for the foundation course.
A.
After the foundation course has been completed as
the applicable sections of these specifications dictate and to the
satisfaction of the Town Superintendent of Highways and the Town Engineer,
the developer shall construct a base course of clean, dry 1 1/2
inch crushed stone. The stone shall be evenly spread by means of an
approved mechanical spreader in such quantities that, after being
compacted with a ten-ton roller, the thickness of the course shall
be four inches. Since it is imperative that this course conform accurately
to the line, grade and cross section specified and as called for on
the plans, the developer shall set up pins and lines or other controlled
devices to attain the desired accuracy. Rolling shall begin at the
sides or curbline and continue towards the center and shall continue
until there is no movement of the course ahead of the roller.
B.
After the stone base course has been completed and
only between the dates of May 15 and October 31, unless otherwise
approved, in writing, and when the stone is dry and clean, free of
frost and the atmospheric temperature is above 50° F., bituminous
material shall be applied to the base course by means of a pressure
distributor at a rate of not less than 1/2 gallon of bituminous material
per square yard per inch of compacted thickness of stone, but in no
event less than two gallons per square yard. Bituminous material shall
be 100 to 120 penetration paving asphalt heated to a temperature of
275° F. to 350° F., and shall conform to the latest New York
State Department of Public Works Specifications for Item 64P. Immediately
after the application of the bituminous material and while the liquid
is still warm and in tacky condition, the surface of the base course
shall be filled with clean, dry 3/8 inch stone, after which it shall
be thoroughly rolled with a self-propelled ten-ton roller. Additional
stone shall be applied and broomed about the surface during rolling
until all voids in the surface of the stone base course are completely
filled. Rolling shall continue until the coverstone is thoroughly
keyed in the bitumen. Surplus stone shall then be removed from the
surface.
Within one month after laying the penetration
base course, a binder course of 1 1/2 inch compacted thickness
shall be placed. This course shall consist of plant mix bituminous
concrete conforming to the New York State Department of Public Works
Specifications for Item 51, Type 1A, Binder Course.
A.
The surface course shall not be applied until all
heavy trucking for building or site construction purposes is completed.
Prior to application of the surface course, the binder course shall
be cleaned of all loose and foreign material by brooming or other
satisfactory method. Where deemed necessary by the Town Superintendent
and Town Engineer, a truing and leveling course conforming to Item
51TL of the New York State Department of Public Works Specifications
shall be placed.
B.
The surface course shall consist of a one-inch compacted
thickness of plant mix bituminous concrete conforming to Item 51,
Type IA, Top Course.
All placing, mixing, rolling and tolerances
of materials shall be in conformity with the New York State Department
of Public Works and the following:
A.
Bituminous concrete shall only be drawn from New York
State approved plants. Certification of mix for each batch shall be
provided to the Town Engineer.
B.
Only asphalt paving machines consisting of a tractor
unit and a screed unit shall be used to spread the binder course,
the truing course if necessary, and the surface course.
