[Adopted 5-9-1994 by Ord. No. 94-4]
In order to promote the public safety and to provide for the upgrading of certain streets within the Town of Barrington, the Town Council of the Town of Barrington herewith adopts an ordinance relating to curbing on the streets within the Town of Barrington as follows.
The provisions of this article shall apply only to existing streets within the Town of Barrington which are being reconstructed and in which curbing is being replaced or newly installed by direction of the Town Public Works Director. This article shall not apply to curbing on streets in newly developed subdivisions which are controlled by the applicable provisions of Chapter
200, Subdivision of Land, of the Code of the Town of Barrington.
Granite curbing shall be installed in all such streets to which this article applies.
Granite curbing shall be installed in accordance with the following specifications:
A. The trench for setting the curb shall be excavated so that it shall be 18 inches wide and its subgrade at least 24 inches below the finished curbing grade. Upon this subgrade a foundation is to be made consisting of clean course gravel thoroughly tamped so that it will be at least six inches when compacted. Upon this foundation the curbing is to be laid, the joints made a close as possible and all spaces under the curb filled with gravel and tamped so that the curbing will bear throughout its entire length and be at the line and grade required.
B. The trench on each side of the curbing is then to be filled to the subgrade of the roadway and sidewalk, respectively, with concrete. The joints will be carefully pointed up, front and back, with mortar made of equal parts of cement and clean sharp sand.
C. Standard granite curb inlets shall be installed at the back gutter lines of all catch basins.
D. Asphalt and concrete. Under no circumstances will asphalt or concrete curbing be allowed to be substituted for granite curbing.
E. All specifications for granite curbing will be per Rhode Island Department of Transportation (DOT) Detail Standard Specifications and approved by the Director of Public Works.
[Adopted 5-9-2005 by Ord. No. 2005-1; amended in its entirety 12-5-2011 by Ord. No. 2011-15]