This chapter shall be known as the "Township
Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance."
This chapter is adopted for the following purposes:
A. To protect and provide for the public health, safety
and general welfare of the Township.
B. To guide the future growth and development of Township
in accordance with the Comprehensive Plan of the Township.
C. To provide for adequate light, air, and privacy; to
secure safety from fire, flood and other danger; and to prevent overcrowding
of the land and undue congestion of population.
D. To protect the character and social and economic stability
of the Township and to encourage the orderly and beneficial development
of the Township.
E. To protect and conserve the value of land throughout
the Township and the value of buildings and improvements upon the
land and to minimize the conflicts among the uses of land and buildings.
F. To guide public and private policy and action in order
to provide adequate and efficient transportation, water supply, sewerage,
schools, parks, playgrounds, recreation and other public requirements
and facilities.
G. To provide the cost-beneficial relationship between
the uses of land and buildings and the circulation of traffic within
the Township, having particular regard to the avoidance of congestion
in the streets and highways, and the pedestrian traffic movements
appropriate to the various uses of land and buildings, and to provide
for the proper location and width of streets and building lines.
H. To establish reasonable standards of design and procedures
for subdivision and resubdivisions in order to further the orderly
layout and use of land, and to ensure proper legal descriptions and
monumenting of subdivided land.
I. To ensure that public facilities are available and
will have a sufficient capacity to serve the proposed subdivision.
J. To prevent the pollution of air, streams and ponds;
to assure the adequacy of drainage facilities; to safeguard the water
table; and to encourage the wise use and management of natural resources
in order to preserve the community and value of the land.
K. To preserve the natural beauty and topography of the
Township and to ensure appropriate development with regard to these
natural features.
L. To provide for open spaces through efficient design
and layout of the land.
M. And finally, to ensure that documents prepared as
part of a landownership transfer fully and accurately describe the
parcel of land being subdivided and the new parcels thus created.