The applicant shall agree in writing to construct streets and other improvements from the lot or lots to be sold or built upon to an existing improved street, subject to the provisions of §
175-5 herein. The work shall be performed in strict accordance with approved plans and the Township standards and specifications or the applicable provisions of Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Specifications 408, latest edition, or any subsequent number or section thereof. No plat shall be finally approved until the developer has completed all of the necessary and appropriate improvements as required as a condition for final approval of a plat or until such time as the applicant has provided for the deposit with the Township of a security acceptable to the governing body in an amount sufficient to cover the costs of any improvement which may be required.
All water, gas, electric and other pipes and
conduits and all service connections or laterals shall be laid to
the full width of the ultimate right-of-way, where the need therefor
can be reasonably anticipated, before streets are paved. The arrangements
for said service connections or laterals shall be the responsibility
of the subdivider, developer or builder.
The applicant shall be responsible from the
time there is at least one occupant in the proposed development to
plow snow on undedicated development roads as may be necessary to
provide ingress and egress to the occupants, at the applicant's cost.
The applicant shall post with the Township the sum of $2,500 as an
escrow to provide for snow removal prior to acceptance of dedication
of the streets. The applicant simultaneously shall present a contract
with a snow removal firm indicating that that firm has been contracted
to remove snow from the development streets within four hours after
snow has stopped falling. All payments for said snow removal shall
be made from the escrow fund. In the event that the escrow should
become depleted, the applicant shall post an additional sum of $2,500
and such further amounts as may be necessary until such time as the
dedication of the streets is accepted by the Township. In the event
that the applicant or the snow removal firm does not perform in accordance
with the contract presented, the Township may hire contractors to
perform the necessary work and pay those contractors from the escrow
fund.
The applicant shall be responsible to dedicate
land suitable for use as park and recreational facilities in a manner
agreed to by the Board. Whenever the applicant is providing a fee
in lieu of otherwise required facilities and land dedication, the
applicant shall agree, in writing, to the amount of fee and the method
to be used to secure and pay that amount as a condition precedent
to final plan approval.