This chapter shall be known and may be cited
as the "Worcester Township Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance."
This chapter is adopted for the following purposes:
A.
To assist orderly, efficient, integrated and harmonious
development of the Township.
B.
To assure sites suitable for building purposes and
human habitation.
C.
To coordinate proposed streets with existing streets
or other proposed streets, parks or other features of the Township
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D.
To provide adequate open spaces for traffic, recreation,
light and air and for proper distribution of population.
E.
To ensure conformance of subdivision and land development
plans to the public improvements of the Township and coordination
of intermunicipal, county and commonwealth improvement plans and programs.
F.
To secure equitable handling of all subdivision and
land development plans by providing uniform procedures and standards.
G.
To regulate subdivisions and land developments within
the jurisdiction of the Township and concurrently to promote the highest
quality environment obtainable.
H.
To ensure that the layout and arrangement of the subdivision
or land development plan is in conformance with the approved articles
or chapters of the Comprehensive Plan and to any regulations or maps
adopted in furtherance thereof.
The provisions of this chapter shall be held
to be minimum requirements to meet the abovestated purposes. Where
the provisions of this chapter impose greater restrictions than those
of any statute, other ordinance or regulations, the provisions of
this chapter shall prevail. Where the provisions of any statute, other
ordinance or regulation impose greater restrictions than those of
this chapter, the provision of such statute, ordinance or regulation
shall prevail.
A.
Subdivision of a lot for construction, opening or
dedication of a street. No subdivision of any lot, tract or parcel
of land shall be affected and no street, alley, sanitary sewer, storm
drain, water main, gas, oil and electric transmission line or other
facilities in connection therewith shall be laid out, constructed,
opened or dedicated for public use or travel or for the common use
of occupants of a building abutting thereon, except in strict accordance
with the subdivision and land development regulations adopted hereunder.
B.
Sale of lots, issuance of building permits or erection
of buildings. No lot in a subdivision or land development may be sold
and no permit to erect, alter or repair any building upon land in
a subdivision or land development may be granted unless and until
a plat has been approved and, where required, recorded and until the
required improvements in connection therewith from the lot or building
to an existing improved street have either been constructed or the
Township has been assured by means of a proper completion guaranty
in the form of a bond or the deposit of funds or securities in escrow
sufficient to cover the cost of the required improvements, as estimated
by the Township Engineer, that the improvements will subsequently
be installed. Where owing to special conditions, a literal enforcement
of this requirement would result in unnecessary hardship, such reasonable
exceptions thereto may be made as will not be contrary to the public
interest and the sale of a lot, issuance of a permit or erection of
a building may be permitted subject to conditions necessary to assure
adequate street and other improvements.
C.
Condominium ownership plans. No section of this chapter
shall be construed to prohibit condominium ownership as permitted
by the Uniform Condominium Act, 68 Pa.C.S.A. § 3101 et seq.
