Rockaway Township City Zoning Code

Permit the safe, efficient and orderly movement of vehicular and pedestrian traffic;

Discourage heavy volumes of through traffic on minor streets and in residential areas;

Provide for anticipated future volumes and speeds of traffic;

Provide for adequate access and movement of emergency and service vehicles, including police and fire-fighting equipment, school buses, street maintenance vehicles, garbage trucks, delivery vehicles, etc;

Provide access to adjacent properties without unduly interfacing with the flow of traffic;

Provide a simple and logical street pattern; and

Provide an attractive streetscape.

Arterial streets: sixty-six-foot r.o.w., forty-eight-foot cartway.

Collector streets: sixty-foot r.o.w., forty-foot cartway.

Neighborhood through roads: fifty-foot r.o.w., thirty-foot cartway.

Minor streets (moderate traffic volume, as determined by Planning Board): fifty-foot r.o.w., twenty-eight-foot cartway.

Minor streets (light traffic volume, as determined by Planning Board): fifty-foot r.o.w., twenty-four-foot cartway.

Substandard street widths: Applicant shall dedicate additional width, along one side of the street, equivalent to 1/2 the required width.

Minimum grade. All streets shall have a minimum grade of 0.75%.

Maximum grade. Streets shall be constructed with the following maximum grades:

All streets shall be constructed with a minimum center line radius appropriate to the street classification. The following standards shall apply, provided that the Planning Board may require greater radii when conditions warrant:

Sight easements shall be provided at horizontal curves when it is determined by the Planning Board and the Township Engineer that same are necessary for proper visibility. The boundaries of the easement shall be determined based upon conditions which exist at the curve.

Arterial streets: as determined by the Board.

Collector streets: 150 feet.

Neighborhood through roads: 100 feet.

Minor streets: 50 feet.

Street intersections shall be as nearly at right angles as possible and in no case shall the angle of intersection be less than 75°.

New intersections along one side of an existing street shall, if possible, be aligned with any existing intersections on the opposite side of the street. Use of "T" intersections shall be encouraged. When neither "T" intersections or properly aligned four-way intersections are possible, intersections shall be offset by at least 175 feet between intersection center lines.

Curbs shall be rounded at all intersections in accordance with the following schedule. When an intersection involves streets of more than one classification, the curb radius for the higher street classification shall apply.

Sight easements shall be provided at all intersections, and shall include the area on each street corner that is bounded by the right-of-way lines and the line which connects the two sight or "connecting points" located on each of the center lines of the intersecting streets. The first sight point shall be located on the center line of the side street, 20 feet from the pavement edge of the through street, measured perpendicular to the through street. The second sight point shall be located on the center line of the through street, at a distance, measured along the street center line, from the intersection of the street center lines as indicated in the following schedule:

Street Jogs shall have center line offsets of not less than 150 feet.

The maximum length of dead-end streets shall be related to the district within which the lots which front on the street are located, in accordance with the following schedule. The length shall be measured along the center line of the street from the extreme dead end of the right-of-way line at the turning circle to the center line of the nearest intersecting through street.

There shall be a turnaround provided at the end of all dead-end streets with a minimum outside curb radius of 50 feet, and a minimum right-of-way radius of 60 feet. Whenever possible, the turnaround shall be tangent to the right side of the street as one approaches the turnaround.

Street signs indicating the dead-end nature of the street shall be posted by the developer within 50 feet of the intersection with a through street.

If a dead-end street is of a temporary nature, a turnaround shall be provided and provisions made for future extension of the street, and reversion of the excess r.o.w. to the adjacent properties.

Arterial streets, or streets carrying substantial volumes of truck traffic: six inches thick quarry process stone base, plus five inches thick quarry process stone base, plus five inches thick stabilized base, plus three inches thick wearing course.

Collector streets or neighborhood through roads: six inches thick quarry process stone base, plus five inches thick stabilized base, plus two thick inches wearing course.

Minor streets: six inches thick quarry process stone base, plus four inches thick stabilized base, plus two inches thick wearing course.