ROW Permit
Special Permit App
The Lexington Township Road Department operates with three full-time employees: Mike Byler, Road Superintendent and two equipment operators. They are responsible for the repair and maintenance of 47.632 miles of Township roadways. They do the roadside mowing, cleaning, and maintenance of all Township road ditches and culverts, street name signs, traffic signs, and snow and ice control. They also maintain Lexington cemetery, and does the opening and closing of graves. The Road Department is also responsible for the Bolton Park on Gaskill Drive and the cemetery at the corner of Rockhill Avenue and Greenbower Street within the Township.
The Township is well-equipped with three dump trucks which can be equipped with snow plows and salt spreaders, two tractors with brush hog mowers, a road grader, a pickup truck, and other equipment necessary to keep the Township roads in top notch condition. Most of the repair and maintenance of the equipment is done in-house at our 5,100-square-foot building located on Greenbower Street. The site has a total of 12 acres, sufficient to meet the needs of Township expansion for many years to come.
The Road Department operates on a yearly budget which is provided by a 1.7 mill levy. These monies help to maintain all Township roadways and ditches.
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NOTICE OF SNOW EMERGENCY PARKING REGULATIONS:
Notice is hereby given that the Board of Trustees of Lexington Township, Stark County, Ohio, adopted a resolution on February 10, 2015, regulating the parking of motor vehicles on certain township roads during a declared snow emergency. This regulation is deemed necessary to protect the health, safety and welfare of residents. Prohibiting the parking of motor vehicles on certain township roads during snow emergencies is necessary in order to provide for the efficient clearing and treating of snow or ice upon such roads and to better assure emergency vehicle access. Pursuant to Revised Code 505.17, the Township Road Superintendent is, by the Board’s resolution, authorized to issue orders declaring a snow emergency and prohibiting the parking of motor vehicles on designated and posted township roads within platted subdivisions during a snow emergency. In order to declare a snow emergency, the accumulation of snow on such roadways must be two (2) inches in depth or greater, creating a condition requiring snow removal or treatment by township trucks, plows or other equipment. Traffic control devices conforming to Revised Code 4511.09 shall be prominently displayed on each affected township road for purposes of enforcing the provisions of the Board’s resolution. Permanent signs giving notice that parking is prohibited during a snow emergency shall be properly posted along the township roads affected by this regulation. An order by the Township Road Superintendent declaring a snow emergency shall become effective two (2) hours after notice of such declaration is announced to the local news media. The Road Superintendent shall request that the local news media announce that a snow emergency has been declared, the time the declaration will go into effect, and whether the snow emergency will remain in effect for a specified time or until canceled by a subsequent announcement to the local news media. The Township Fiscal Officer shall post a copy of this Notice in five (5) conspicuous public places within the township for thirty (30) days and shall publish this Notice in a newspaper of general circulation in the township for three consecutive weeks. By resolution of the Lexington Township Board of Trustees.
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