ORDINANCE 156

AN ORDINANCE OF KENNETT TOWNSHIP, CHESTER COUNTY,

PENNSYLVANIA, ESTABLISHING RESTRICTIONS

ON THE OPERATION OF LARGE TRUCKS ON CEDARCROFT ROAD

            WHEREAS, pursuant to the provisions of the Motor Vehicle Code, 75 Pa.C.S.A.

§ 6109(a) and (b), permitting local authorities, by ordinance, to exercise their police power on streets and highways within their physical boundaries, including § 6109(a)(7) which permits a local authority to prohibit or restrict the use of highways at particular places by particular classes of vehicles whenever the highway, or a portion thereof, may be seriously damaged by the use or movement of such vehicles which would constitute a safety hazard; and

            WHEREAS, under the provisions of § 6109(e), action by local authorities shall be taken only after completing an engineering and traffic investigation; and

            WHEREAS, McCormick Taylor, engineers and planners, have performed an engineering and traffic investigation on Cedarcroft Road within Kennett Township, between Mill Road and Route 82, to determine if certain vehicles should be restricted from using Cedarcroft Road; and

            WHEREAS, based upon the observed operations of the roadway, McCormick Taylor found that the presence of oversized vehicles within two-way traffic causes one or both vehicles to ride on the extreme edge of the pavement and occasionally leave the paved cartway, resulting in observed pavement edge damage; and

            WHEREAS, McCormick Taylor has found that the operation of large trucks on Cedarcroft Road creates an undesirable condition where vehicles drive along the edge of the paved roadway, resulting in weakening and deterioration of the pavement and has recommended that vehicles wider than 96 inches (8 feet) be prohibited from using Cedarcroft Road between Mill Road and Route 82.

            NOW, THEREFORE, it is hereby enacted and ordained as follows:

            SECTION 1.  Vehicles wider than 96 inches (8 feet) including mirrors, with the exception of school buses, shall be prohibited from using Cedarcroft Road between Mill Road and Route 82.

            SECTION 2.  This prohibition shall be accomplished with four sign installations, each consisting of an R5-2 ("No Trucks") sign mounted above an R14-16-1 ("Width Prohibition") sign.  Two such signs shall be installed on each side of Cedarcroft Road (left and right), immediately east of Mill Road and immediately west of Route 82.

ENACTED AND ORDAINED, this 21st day of February, 2005.

                                                                                    KENNETT TOWNSHIP

                                                                                    BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

                                                                                    Thomas W. Nale, III, Chairman

ATTEST:                                                                                                                                            

                                                                                    Michael E. Elling

Secretary-Treasurer                                                                                                                             

                                                                                    Robert A. Hammaker