The improvements required by this chapter are minimum requirements.
However, Council reserves the right in any case to increase the same
if conditions so warrant in order to protect the health, safety and
welfare of Township residents.
When changes from the accepted drawings and specifications become
necessary during construction, written acceptance by Council, with
the advice of the Township Engineer, shall be secured before the execution
of such changes.
Adequate provisions for the satisfactory maintenance of all
streets shall be made by dedication to, and acceptance of maintenance
by the Township, or by other acceptable means. During the course of
development and prior to dedication, maintenance of streets shall
be the responsibility of the developer.
The developer shall be responsible for the installation of all street signs and traffic control signs. Such signs shall conform to those standards contained in §
177-44 of this chapter.
The developer shall install or cause to be installed, at the
developer's expense, metal pole streetlights serviced by underground
conduit approved by Council in conformity to a general standard of
streetlighting established by Council. The equipment of metal poles
may be waived in such instances as approved by Council. Provisions
shall be made for energizing said lighting before any dwellings in
a given block can be occupied. The owner shall be responsible for
all costs involved in lighting the streets until such time that the
streets are accepted or condemned as public streets by Council. When
the Township accepts the streets, the Township may, by resolution,
assess all costs of the lighting to the property owners along the
street.
The developer shall construct stormwater drainage facilities
including detention and retention basins, curbs, catch basins and
inlets, storm sewers, swales, culverts, open channels and other structures
in order to prevent erosion, flooding, and other hazards to life and
property. Size, type and installation of all storm drains and sewers
shall be constructed in accordance with the approved plans and specifications
approved by Council. All such facilities shall be of adequate size
and grade to hydraulically accommodate maximum potential volumes of
flow.
Where no public water is accessible, water shall be furnished
by the developer on an individual lot basis. If wells are installed
on each lot, the well shall be of the drilled type, cased and grout-sealed
into the bedrock. All standards of the Bucks County Department of
Health shall be followed.
If, at the time of final approval, public sanitary sewer facilities
are not available to the subdivision or land development, but will
become available within a period of 10 years, the developer shall
be required to install or cause to be installed at his/her expense
sanitary sewers and sewer laterals to the street line in accordance
with the requirements and standards of the appropriate Sewer Authority.
The sewer lines shall be suitably capped at the limits of the subdivision
or land development and the laterals shall be capped at the right-of-way
line. Review and approval by the Bristol Township Authority or Lower
Bucks County Joint Municipal Authority is required.
Grading shall conform in all respects to the approved final
plan and the design standards and specifications adopted by Council.
Additional community facilities may be required to serve the
proposed lots or dwellings in a subdivision or land development. Where
a proposed park, playground or other public facility is located in
whole or in part in a subdivision or land development, the dedication
or reservation of such area may be required by Council in those cases
in which it deems such requirements to be reasonable.