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Township of Brecknock, PA
Lancaster County
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A. 
Map elements. The Official Map, as hereby adopted and enacted, and as may be subsequently amended, may show appropriate elements or portions of elements of the Elanco Region Comprehensive Plan, the Brecknock Township Park and Recreation Plan and any other approved plan or study of the Township with regard to public lands and facilities, and may include, but need not be limited to:
(1) 
Existing and proposed public streets, watercourses and public grounds, including widening, narrowing, extensions, diminutions, openings or closing of same.
(2) 
Existing and proposed public parks, playgrounds, and open space reservations.
(3) 
Conservation easements.
(4) 
Pedestrian ways and easements.
(5) 
Railroad rights-of-way and easements.
(6) 
Flood hazard areas, floodways and one-hundred- and five-hundred-year flood zones.
(7) 
Support facilities, easements and other properties held by public bodies undertaking the elements of Township plans and studies.
B. 
Designated highway and street functional classifications.
(1) 
Major arterial highways:
(a) 
Pennsylvania Turnpike (Interstate 76) in its entirety within the Township.
(b) 
U.S. 222 in its entirety within the Township.
(2) 
Minor arterial highways: Lancaster Avenue (SR 272) in its entirety within the Township.
(3) 
Major collector streets:
(a) 
Dry Tavern Road (SR 897) in its entirety within the Township.
(b) 
Reading Road (SR 625) in its entirety within the Township.
(4) 
Minor collector streets:
(a) 
Red Run Road from the East Cocalico Township line to the Earl Township line.
(b) 
Fivepointville Road from Red Run Road to Dry Tavern Road (SR 897).
(c) 
Maple Grove Road from Dry Tavern Road (SR 897) to the Berks County line.
(5) 
Local collector streets: (none designated).
(6) 
Local streets: all other publicly dedicated streets.
C. 
Designated recreational trails:
(1) 
A Muddy Creek trail extension from the Country Meadows subdivision to about the Red Run Campground.
(2) 
A Muddy Creek trail segment from the Country Meadows subdivision through Brubaker Park to the intersection of Muddy Creek and Long Lane.
(3) 
A trail extension from Maple Grove Road, along Oaklyn Drive and Silver Hill Road, to a State Game Land access point.
(4) 
A trail extension from Maple Grove Road, along Oaklyn Drive and Yellow Hill Road, to a State Game Land access point.
(5) 
A Muddy Creek tributary trail segment to the Pennsylvania Turnpike Overpass at SR 625.
(6) 
A Muddy Creek tributary trail extension paralleling Reading Road (SR 625) from the Pennsylvania Turnpike overpass to Trostle Lane.
(7) 
A trail extension paralleling Trostle Lane from Reading Road (SR 625) to the Horse-Shoe Trail in Berks County.
(8) 
A trail extension paralleling Bowmansville Road from Reading Road (SR 625) at Trostle Road to the Horse-Shoe Trail in Adamstown Borough.
(9) 
A trail extension paralleling Wentzel Road from Bowmansville Road to the Horse-Shoe Trail in Berks County.
D. 
Designated roadway improvements:
(1) 
Shoulder improvements along Dry Tavern Road (SR 897) from the East Earl Township line to the Adamstown Borough line.
(2) 
Shoulder improvements along Reading Road (SR 625) from the East Earl Township line to the Berks County line.
(3) 
Shoulder improvements along Lauschtown Road from Dry Tavern Road (SR 897) to Reading Road (SR 625).
(4) 
Shoulder improvements along Stone Hill Road from Dry Tavern Road (SR 897) to the East Cocalico Township line.
(5) 
Shoulder improvements along Pleasant Valley Road from Long Lane to Good Road.
(6) 
Shoulder improvements along Good Road between Pleasant Valley Road and Maple Grove Road.
(7) 
Shoulder improvements along Maple Grove Road between Good Road and School Road.
(8) 
Shoulder improvements along Maple Grove Road between the Pennsylvania Turnpike overpass and Oaklyn Drive.
(9) 
Bridge improvements, such as pedestrian facilities and roadway shoulders, for the following overpass or underpass intersections of the Pennsylvania Turnpike:
(a) 
Dry Tavern Road (SR 897).
(b) 
Panorama Drive.
(c) 
Reading Road (SR 625).
(d) 
Maple Grove Road.
(e) 
Oaklyn Drive.
(f) 
Bridge Road.
(10) 
Intersection safety improvements at the intersection of Maple Grove Road and Reading Road (SR 625).
(11) 
Alternate route signage for large motor vehicles directing northbound traffic on Reading Road (SR 625) to Oaklyn Drive, rather than Maple Grove Road.
(12) 
Traffic routing and signage improvements at the Fivepointville intersection of Dry Tavern Road (SR 897), Maple Grove Road and Pleasant Valley Road.
(13) 
Design geometry improvements of the School Road S-curve between Dry Tavern Road (SR 897) and Maple Grove Road.
(14) 
Safety improvements at the intersection of School Road and Dry Tavern Road (SR 897).
(15) 
Safety improvements at the intersection of Stone Hill Road and Dry Tavern Road (SR 897).
(16) 
Safety improvements at the intersection of Gehman School Road and Dry Tavern Road (SR 897).
(17) 
Safety improvements at the intersection of Bowmansville Road and Staver Road.
(18) 
Traffic-calming measures on Dry Tavern Road (SR 897) at the north and south boundaries of the Village of Fivepointville.
(19) 
Traffic-calming measures on Reading Road (SR 625) at the north and south boundaries of the Village of Bowmansville.
E. 
Identification and acquisition. Property records, aerial photography, photogrammetric mapping or other methods sufficient for the identification, description and publication of areas for reservation on the Official Map shall be sufficient for the purposes of identifying land on the Official Map. For the acquisition of lands and easements, boundary descriptions by metes and bounds shall be made and sealed by a licensed surveyor, registered in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
F. 
Street design requirements. Unless otherwise specified on the Official Map or within other controlling Township ordinance provisions, all proposed public street rights-of-way and widening of existing public street rights-of-way shall meet the design requirements of Brecknock Township for the highway functional classification as designated by the Township Official Map, the Elanco Region Comprehensive Plan, or other approved study or plan.