Cranberry supervisors set public hearing dates on a pair of ordinances aimed at improving the aesthetics of its most heavily traveled roadways.

Titled the streetscape enhancement ordinance and the corridor enhancement ordinance, supervisors agreed to hold a public hearing on the draft measures at 6:30 p.m. July 30 in the Rochester Road municipal complex.

Planners described the ordinance at a supervisors meeting last night as being aimed at creating a more "graceful" environment along Route 19, Route 228, Freedom Road, Rochester Road and Franklin Road -- the township's major byways.

The new requirements would ask developers for plans that front those roads to beautify the street edges with benches; bus, Dumpster and mail box enclosures, hedges and street trees, and pedestrian "pockets" with such accoutrements at umbrella-tables and concrete flower planters.

The overall goal is consistency in the streetscapes, right down to the color schemes that are used.

Adoption is to be considered at the 6:30 p.m. Aug. 6 public meeting in the municipal center.