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Allentown City Zoning Code

§ 28-11.4

Streets.

[Added 4-20-2021 by Ord. No. 03-2021]
The subdivider shall, at his own expense, grade all streets in conformity with the terrain and good engineering practices; shall have all underground utilities installed prior to street paving; shall construct streets in accordance with the specifications below and the provisions of Chapter 14 of the Code of the Borough of Allentown and shall submit plans, profiles, cross sections and design for the work to the Borough Engineer for approval prior to starting any construction.
a. 
Streets of 50-foot width shall be divided into a roadway area of 30 feet with a sidewalk area on each side of 10 feet. The sidewalk area shall be graded to an elevation of two inches above the finished center-line grade. Off-street parking shall be provided for the use of any owners fronting on streets having a 30-foot roadway area. Whenever the roadway area of any street is planned and constructed to be 34 feet with sidewalk area on each side of eight feet, then parking along any such street shall be permitted, subject, however to the ordinance power of the Borough with respect to the regulation of parking, which power may be exercised at any time notwithstanding this provision or any interference that might be otherwise drawn here from.
b. 
The street roadway area shall be constructed for its full width with a two-inch compacted thickness bituminous concrete, Type FABC-1 pavement surface course on a six-inch compacted thickness macadam foundation base course or six inches of bituminous both constructed in accordance with Specifications for Road and Bridge Construction 1961 and addenda. Stabilized base on approved subgrade.
c. 
The standard specifications are hereby supplemented to permit the use of two-and-one-half-inch quarry blend stone in the construction of the macadam base course where ground conditions permit or require it.