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Road Commission for Oakland County Decorative Street Name Sign Requirements
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All work requires a permit from the Road Commission for Oakland
County (RCOC).
- All regulatory (Stop, Yield, or Parking Prohibitions) or warning
(Yellow Series) signs are not permitted to be a decorative type
installation. These signs must remain a RCOC standard installation.
- The permit application shall include detailed drawings of the
street
name sign(s) and the support (post), location of the street name
sign(s) to be installed, and street name(s) with suffix (Rd., St.,
Ave.,
Dr., Ct., Ln., Blvd., etc.) shown (without use of a period).
- All street name signs shall be fabricated and installed in
accordance
with the current edition of the Michigan Manual of Uniform Traffic
Control Devices (MMUTCD).
- Public road street name signs shall be white letters on a
green background with a white border. Private road street name
signs shall be black letters on a white background.
- The green (public) and white (private) background shall be retroreflective (ASTM Type IV prismatic sheeting or better).
- The white legend (letters and border) shall be retroreflective
(ASTM
Type IV prismatic sheeting or better).
- The black legend (letters) shall be non-retroreflective sign
sheeting
film.
- Where a sub-local street intersects a local or primary road, the
minimum letter height shall be 8 inches, the suffix shall be 4
inches
and superscripted.
- Where a sub-local street intersects another sub local
street, the minimum letter height shall be 5 inches, suffix
shall be 3 inches and superscripted.
- The font used for the lettering shall be either the "Highway
Clear
View" or "Highway C Series" with use of upper and lower case
letters.
- The street name sign(s) shall be installed on a breakaway design
type post with a minimum bottom sign height of 10 feet. A Federal
Highway Administration (FHWA) letter of approval that the post
design is in compliance with NCHRP350 requirements must be
included with the permit application.
- The street name sign(s) shall be installed on the opposite
corner
from the location of the regulatory sign installation (Stop or Yi~ld).
- The cost for removal of existing RCOC street name signs will be
included in the permit fees.
- The decorative street name signs will not be maintained by the RCOC. The RCOC, when notified of a damaged or missing street
name sign will grant a reasonable time frame for the replacement to
be completed before installing a new street name sign
meeting the current RCOC signing standards. The removal of the RCOC
replacement street name sign will not be done unless paid for by
the homeowners association or local residents.
- If the RCOC has a construction project in an area that removes
or
disturbs the installation of a decorative street name sign, it will
not
be reinstalled or replaced by the RCOC. The removal and replacement
will be the responsibility of the homeowners association or
local residents.
Independence Township Signature
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