A. Within the minimum visual buffer there shall be no development, clearing, grading or construction activity with the following exceptions:
1. Roadway and/or driveway access to the portion of the site not in the minimum visual buffer, provided that it is approximately perpendicular to the right-of-way.
2. Improvements for water, sanitary sewer, storm drainage, electrical, telephone, natural gas, cable, etc., service lines, provided that they are approximately perpendicular to the right-of-way. In the event that utilities must be installed approximately parallel to the road right-of-way, an equal amount of buffer may be required to substitute for the area of vegetation removal. Permission for easement and right-of-way disturbance and clearing for such services shall be more favorably considered when such activity is consolidated with vehicular access routes.
3. Pedestrian, bicycle and equestrian paths designed to provide continuous connection along the road corridor, provided that they can be constructed without materially reducing the screening and visual softening capacity of the vegetative buffer.
4. Signs in accordance with the sign regulations of this chapter.
5. Lighting fixtures only for approved signs or if, for safety reasons, they cannot be placed outside the buffer, and then only when electric utility lines serving these fixtures and necessary easements can be established and constructed without reducing the screening and visual softening capacity of the vegetation buffer.
6. Clear sight distances at the permitted entrances and exits to any development as needed to provide for reasonable traffic safety, in accordance with accepted traffic engineering practices when recommended by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
7. The addition of plantings, earth forms or other visual buffers that, in the opinion of the Board of Supervisors, would better achieve the purpose set out in § 208-1501 than would otherwise be the case.
