Enclave Boulevard dedicated to township
Speed limit and stop signs coming; residents and developer have sparred over road and other improvements
Enclave has been the focus of much attention, as communities have been built along the new road.
MONTGOMERY TWP. >> A neighborhood in Montgomery Township received the news they’ve been waiting for Monday, as the main road they live on was formally dedicated to the township.
“Finally, we get to our dedication of Enclave Boulevard. We’ll have lots of happy people,” said supervisors Vice Chair Candyce Fluehr Chimera.
Enclave Boulevard is located on the north side of Route 309 just east of Hartman Road, and has been the focus of much attention over the past several years, as developer David Cutler has built several communities along the new road. Residents of those communities have turned out in force over the past year, to ask the township for help in making sure Cutler finished public improvements there, including the main road, sidewalks and streetlights, and other unfinished features.
Montgomery’s supervisors voted unanimously Monday to accept the dedication of Enclave Boulevard, which township Manager Larry Gregan said is the step formally shifting the road from the developer’s property to the township, making Montgomery responsible for paving and plowing it.
“The proposed resolution would accept dedication of the right-of-way and completion of the road paving improvements, subject to agreement by the developer to complete the installation of streetlights, the repaving of Enclave Boulevard within the Penn DOT right-of-way, and completion of accessibility rightof-way ramps,” Gregan said.
“There were a couple of minor punch list items we have to resolve with the developer. We actually met (Monday) to work on those items, and they will be resolved as part of this dedication,” he said.
The punch list items were included in Montgomery’s board meeting materials packet for Oct. 24, and include installation of a pedestrian trail along the roadway, signage and pavement markings, and a final milling and paving, all of which except have now been completed except for the trail.
“This acceptance will allow school buses to operate on the road, in order to provide bus service to the children who reside in the various developments adjacent to Enclave Boulevard,” Gregan said.
“That was one of the most important things we wanted, to get the buses out there,” said Chimera.
Once the board voted to officially transfer the road to the township, police Chief Scott Bendig proposed a series of updates to township codes, setting a speed limit and new signs on that street. The police recommendations included setting a speed limit of 25 miles per hour for all of Enclave, designating stop signs on Enclave at its intersections with Route 309 and Hartman Road, and designating Enclave as a township snow emergency route.
“The police department is requesting that the traffic regulations be designated as ‘experimental regulations’ under section 222 of the township code, for up to 90 days” after the vote, Bendig said.
A proposed ordinance spelling out those rules for the new road was approved unanimously for advertisement by the board, and a public hearing and vote to formally adopt is scheduled for their Nov. 14 meeting.