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Timestamp: 2019-03-24 19:41:20
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 201', '§ 201', '§ 201', '§ 201', '§ 201', '§ 201', '§ 201']

Municipality of Murrysville, PA Design Standards
Ch 201 Art VI Design Standards
§ 201-69 Conformity to provisions.
§ 201-70 General design standards.
§ 201-71 Streets and access drives.
§ 201-72 Lots.
§ 201-73 Easements.
§ 201-74 Land operations.
§ 201-75 Floodplain districts.
Chapter 201 Subdivision and Land Development Article VI Design Standards
The plat of a subdivision shall substantially conform to the following principles and standards of design. If there is a discrepancy between minimum standards or dimensions noted herein and those contained in building code or other official regulations, the highest standard shall apply.
The design of public and private improvements, grading, building arrangement, parking, landscaping, and manner in which proposed uses shall operate, as considered through subdivision and land development processes, shall demonstrate a conformance with the following general principles, plans, and ordinances:
The Zoning Ordinance, Chapter 220, including but not limited to environmental standards relating to noise, odors, and glare.
Municipal grading ordinance.[1]
Editor's Note: See Ch. Ch. 124, Grading, Excavations and Filling.
To the furthest extent feasible, the minimization of impact on existing watercourses and groundwater discharge and recharge areas.
To the furthest extent feasible, conformance with the policies of the Municipal Comprehensive Plan.
Every access from a property onto a state road must be approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. Evidence of the receipt of the necessary written approval shall be submitted to the Municipality prior to final plat approval. "Access" shall include any new street, driveway opening or encroachment.
The street and alley layout shall conform to any plans made by the Municipality for the development of the neighborhood in which the proposed subdivision is located.
The street layout shall conform, to the greatest extend practical in terms of municipal standards, to the existing topography of the site.
Minor streets and local streets shall be so planned as to discourage through traffic.
Wherever there exists a dedicated or platted portion of a street or alley along a boundary of the tract being subdivided, the remainder of said street or alley to the prescribed width shall be platted within the proposed subdivision.
Half streets shall not be provided except where it is essential to the reasonable development of the subdivision in conformity with the other requirements of these regulations or where it becomes necessary to acquire the remaining half by condemnation so it may be approved in the public interest.
Culs-de-sac shall not extend more than 2,500 feet beyond the intersection from which the cul-de-sac originates and shall include a turnaround, which shall be provided at the closed end and must have a minimum radius of 40 feet measured to the base of the curb and a right-of- way radius of not less than 50 feet, and said turnaround shall have a maximum grade at center of 5%. Culs-de-sac that are to be dedicated and accepted into the public road system shall be at least 250 feet in length, as measured from the edge of the through street to the back of the cul-de-sac curb.
Alleys shall not be provided in residential districts, except in planned residential developments, but shall be included in commercial and industrial areas where needed for loading and unloading or access purposes.
The minimum distance between center lines of parallel or approximately parallel streets intersecting a cross street from opposite directions shall be 125 feet.
Dead-end streets shall be prohibited unless provided with a turnaround or cul-de-sac arrangements. Only streets provided with cul-de-sac or turnaround arrangements as provided herein will be considered for acceptance into the public road system.
Right-of-way requirements may be increased for specific thoroughfares if existing or anticipated traffic flow warrants it or if drainage and sewerage easements parallel such thoroughfares. Such increased width will be set by the Council under the advisement of the Planning Commission, the Municipal Engineer and the FTMSA. Consideration regarding the Street Design and Construction Standards Ordinance[1] and parking requirements shall also be a factor in said advisements.
Editor's Note: See Ch. 97, Roads and Streets Construction.
Minimum right-of-way widths, paving widths, angle of intersection, distances along sides of sight triangles, sidewalks required, horizontal alignments, vertical alignments, as well as maximum and minimum grades, shall be in accordance with Chapter 97, Construction Standards, now in effect and as from time to time amended.
The Municipality may require additional access to a plan, where feasible, when such access is necessary to promote the goals and objectives of the Comprehensive Plan, access to emergency services, and where the Official Map designates future rights-of-way.
Generally, land developments shall be designed such that the minimal number of access points to a public street are provided, in consideration of parking design and circulation and building location possible on the site, as permitted or required by municipal and state requirements. Additionally, major street standards notwithstanding, no proposed access drive shall be located closer than 80 feet to the right-of-way with any street intersection.
Major street standards. All land developments and subdivisions bearing frontage on State Routes 22, 286, 380, 366, and 66 shall be limited to one access per the parcel existing at the time of approval, in recognition of the following standards:
Access drives or streets proposed within 400 feet of existing streets and access drives shall be located the greatest distance from said intersections given site distance requirements relating to the proposed access, greatest distance possible from public street intersections, and Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Highway Occupancy Permit Requirements.
In cases where a subdivision of a parcel bearing frontage on Route 22 is proposed, the applicant shall provide an access easement, in consideration of all standards outlined in this chapter, which demonstrates one point of access and provides for access to all parcels proposed.
Private street maintenance. Where private streets are proposed, maintenance shall be demonstrated through homeowners' or condominium association declaration documents or covenants in a form acceptable to the Municipal Solicitor as a means of providing maintenance of the streets as proposed and approved, including winter maintenance. Where no such association is proposed, namely in minor subdivisions and land developments, a note shall be affixed to the final plat giving notice to all owners of lots within the plan that each shall share equitably in the aforesaid maintenance. Association documents, as required, shall be recorded with the final plat.
Where the waiver of street standards required by this chapter and Chapter 97, Construction Standards, is proposed, Council, in the granting of any such request, may require that the applicant or developer affix a note to the subdivision plat stating that no further subdivision of lands solely served by said street shall occur unless said street is improved to standards approved by Council. Said waivers shall include right-of-way width reductions.
All driveways over 75 feet shall have a minimum clear opening width of 12 feet, a pavement width of nine feet, and have a horizontal and vertical alignment that can accommodate a fire truck with a wheelbase of 250 inches. All bridges and culverts shall be designed for a thirty-ton road.
[Added 5-17-2017 by Ord. No. 955-16]
Every lot shall be provided with access adequate for the use of public safety vehicles and other public and private purposes and shall be served by a public or private street system. All public streets shall be improved in accordance with this chapter and connected to the general street system.
Double frontage shall be avoided.
Lot width, building area, setback and side yard width. Within the area of jurisdiction of this chapter, minimum lot widths and areas shall be as set forth in the Zoning Ordinance[1] of the Municipality and shall apply.
When a tract is subdivided into larger than required building lots and there is no covenant preventing resubdivision of the lots, such lots or parcels shall be so arranged as to permit a logical location and opening of future streets and resubdividing with provision for adequate utility connections for each subdivision in consideration of Comprehensive Plan recommendations and the Official Map.
Lots shall be so designed as to permit a building footprint or area to house a principal structure within an area that lies outside of existing steep slopes, where steep slopes are classified as 25% or greater. Such design shall consider existing setbacks enforced by the Zoning Ordinance.
Flag lots. Flag lots are permitted under the following circumstances:
One flag lot is permitted per existing or proposed block;
The strip accessing the portion of the lot the width of which is less than the minimum lot width at the building line shall not extend more than 500 feet from the right-of-way from which it is accessed.
The access strip, as described, shall be subject to all site distance requirements otherwise applicable to the respective type of access proposed.
The net area of the lot, excluding the access strip, shall meet the minimum lot size requirements within the respective district as imposed by the Zoning Ordinance.
Easements shall be required at a minimum width of 20 feet. Where a subdivision is traversed by a watercourse or natural drainage, there shall be provided a stormwater easement or drainage right-of-way of width and length sufficient for the purpose.
The requirements of Chapter 124, Grading, Excavating and Filling, shall be complied with by every land development.
Development within any floodplain district must meet the requirements and standards of Article XI in addition to any other applicable provisions in this chapter. When conflicts arise between standards, the provisions of Article XI shall govern.