(A) All electric power, telephone, cable television, natural gas and other utilities shall be placed underground except where the Borough Council determines it not feasible, and in accordance with the current standards of the utility serving the subdivision or development.
(B) All garden apartment developments shall include conveniently located refuse collection facilities for the residents. All uses within nonresidential land developments and subdivisions shall include appropriate refuse collection facilities. All bulk refuse collection dumpsters shall be screened on three of four sides by walls or evergreen landscaping from view of dwellings, adjacent residentially zoned lots and public streets.
(C) Easements shall be shown on the final plans and be provided as follows.
(1) Unless waived by the Borough Engineer, all lots shall include a drainage and utility easement around the perimeter of each lot. The minimum width for easements shall be 20 feet, which may be reduced to ten feet for each lot if a ten feet minimum easement already exists on the abutting side of the abutting lot.
(2) (a) Additional width of easements shall be provided for additional utilities if required by the water or sanitary sewage supplier or the Board of Supervisors.
(b) The easement widths along side lot lines shall:
1. Not be required along lotlines where buildings (such as townhouses) are to be attached; and
2. Shall be reduced if the borough zoning ordinance (as adopted by reference in Chapter 155 of this code of ordinances) allows a principal building setback that is more narrow than the width of the easement that would otherwise be required.
(3) Minimum separation distances between utility lines shall be as required by the applicable utility or as deemed necessary by the Board of Supervisors, based upon advice of the Borough Engineer.
(4) Utility and drainage easements shall be placed along lot lines or street rights-of-way whenever reasonable, as opposed to within the center of a lot.
(Ord. passed 2-3-1992)