Township of Coolbaugh, PA Establishment of Controls

Map elements. The Official Map, as enacted and as subsequently amended, may show appropriate elements or portions of elements of the: Coolbaugh Township, Borough of Mount Pocono, Tobyhanna Township, Tunkhannock Township Regional Comprehensive Plan (June 2005); Monroe County 2020 Comprehensive Plan; Monroe County Open Space Plan (June 2001); and any other plan or study of the Township with regard to public lands and facilities. The Official Map may include, but need not be limited to:

(1)

Existing and proposed public streets, watercourses and public grounds, including widenings, narrowings, extensions, diminutions, openings or closing of same.

(2)

Existing and proposed public parks, playgrounds, and open space reservations.

(3)

Conservation easements.

(4)

Bicycle and pedestrianways and easements.

(5)

Railroad and transit rights-of-way and easements.

(6)

Flood control basins, floodways and floodplains, stormwater management areas and drainage easements.

(7)

Support facilities, easements and other properties held by public bodies undertaking the elements of Township plans and studies.

Identification and acquisition. For the purposes of initially identifying land on the Official Map, property records, aerial photography, photogrammetric mapping or other method sufficient for the identification, description and publication of areas for reservation on the Official Map will be sufficient. For the acquisition of lands and easements, boundary descriptions by metes and bounds shall be made and sealed by a licensed surveyor, registered in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Size and location of reservations. The size and location of a reservation shall be determined as follows:

(1)

Reservations shown on the Official Map which are shown as constituting an entire property shall be the same size and the same location as that of the property designated on the Official Map.

(2)

Reservations shown on the Official Map which are shown as constituting only a portion of a property shall be sized and located based on the approximate size and location of the designation as shown on the Official Map.

(3)

Reservations shown on the Official Map as corridors or rights-of-way, such as bicycle or pedestrianways or streets, shall be of a sufficient width to allow for the designated purposes. Bicycle and pedestrianways shall be at least five feet wide for pedestrianways or 10 feet wide for off-street bicycle ways, plus a buffer on both sides of the path which would amount to a twenty-foot-wide easement or right-of-way. See § 275-5E for streets.

(4)

At the Board of Supervisors' discretion, the size and/or location may deviate from the requirements listed above if the Board determines that the new size and/or location will allow sufficient size and access for the proposed public use and that new size and/or location will meet the intent of the reservation.

Additions or modifications. The Board of Supervisors, by amending this chapter, may make additions or modifications by ordinance to the Official Map or parts thereto by following the provisions included in Article IV of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, as amended.[1] Nothing in this chapter shall prevent the Coolbaugh Township Board of Supervisors from vacating any existing or proposed public street, watercourse or public ground, or part thereof, contained in the Official Map.

[1]

Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 10401 et seq.

Street design requirements. Unless otherwise specified, on the Official Map or within other controlling ordinance provisions, all proposed public street rights-of-way and widenings of existing public street rights-of-way shall meet the design requirements specified in Chapter 355, Subdivision and Land Development, of the Code of the Township of Coolbaugh for the highway functional classification as designated by the Township and/or PennDOT or other applicable study or plan.

The Official Map, as signed and dated by the Board of Supervisors and including all notations, references, and other data shown thereon, is hereby incorporated by reference into this chapter as if it were fully described herein.

Certification of the Official Map. The Official Map shall be identified by the signatures of the Board of Supervisors, attested by the Coolbaugh Township Secretary, under the following words: "This is to certify that this is the Official Map of Coolbaugh Township referred to in the Official Map Ordinance of Coolbaugh Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania, together with the date of enactment of this ordinance. The Official Map shall be kept on file with the Coolbaugh Township Secretary."

Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code. The Official Map and Official Map Ordinance have been adopted pursuant to the provisions provided in § 402 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, as amended.[1]

[1]

Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 10402.

Changes in the Official Map. If, in accord with the provisions of this chapter, changes are made to the location of lines designating existing or proposed public streets, watercourses, or public grounds or easements, such changes shall be entered promptly on said map. All changes, except those resulting from subdivision and land development plans as specified in § 275-14 shall be certified by initialing of the map by the Chairman of the Board of Supervisors together with the amending ordinance number and date of enactment, or by the republication of the Official Map and certification in accord with § 275-6A.