| Inspections and Permit Services When it comes to an emergency situation, one would hope that our beloved first responders do not play the odds, use gut instinct, or guess what their next move should be. We hope that they are dedicated and well trained so that if we would ever need them, they would know exactly what to do. As a Building Inspector, it is usually not time critical to find the correct property on my inspection schedule. Unless, when I am running behind, I hope I do not have to guess which driveway I need to pull into. Or worse, make multiple passes back and forth trying to figure out by the process of elimination where I am supposed to be. The point here is simple. Far too many times, I am not immediately able find the exact property address I am looking for while navigating our Township roads. As the Township's Fire Official, what is more disturbing is knowing the possibility of a potential time delay, if again, the unthinkable comes to pass. Please allow the Ordinance below to be a motivator to ensure we are doing not only what is required by law, but consciously playing what could be considered a critical part in the community we live and raise our families in. § 83-4 Application for street address number. The owner or occupant of each tract, lot or parcel of land to which no street address number has been previously assigned shall, upon purchase, acquisition or occupancy thereof, or within seven days of discovery that no such number has been assigned, make application to the Township Manager for assignment of such number, and thereupon, the Township Manager shall assign a correct street address number to the property. A. The address numbers shall be Arabic in design, shall have a minimum height of three inches and shall be mounted in a secure fashion to the principal building's front wall or to a porch or other fixed appurtenance in front of the principal building in the general vicinity of the main entryway or main path of travel which leads to the main entrance from a public street, or otherwise separately mounted in an approved manner upon the face or wall or upon a post or mailbox in the front yard of the premises. They shall be sufficiently legible as to contrasting background, arrangement, spacing, size and uniformity of integers so that the numbers may be read with ease during daylight hours by a person possessing normal vision and viewing the numbers from the center line of the facing street. To ensure readability after daylight hours, street address numbers shall be made or coated with material which is light reflective. The numbers shall be so placed that trees, shrubs and other obstructions do not block the line of sight of the numbers from the center of the street to any appreciable degree. May your holidays be safe and pleasant, Michael V. Pilotti Sr. Building Official & Code Enforcement | 
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