[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors
of the Township of Hellam 10-9-2003 by Ord. No. 2003-06. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A.
Article IV of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning
Code ("MPC") authorizes the Board of Supervisors to, by ordinance,
adopt an Official Map for the Township designating, inter alia, existing
and proposed public streets; watercourses and public grounds; existing
and proposed public parks, playgrounds, and open space reservations;
pedestrian ways and casements; and flood control and stormwater management
areas and easements. The Board of Supervisors adopted a Comprehensive
Plan which recommends the preservation of many of the above-listed
natural features, the development of a new collector street, and the
adoption of an Official Map. The Board of Supervisors desires to adopt
an Official Map to implement the Comprehensive Plan.
B.
The Board of Supervisors intends to amend the Township
Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance to require that all developments
be designed in accordance with the Official Map as authorized by Sections
503(2)(i), 503(2)(iv) and 503(11) of the MPC.[1] This will promote coordinated development, especially
as it relates to the proposed collector street, and will inform developers
where open space required in connection with a subdivision or land
development should be located. The Board of Supervisors also intends
to amend the Zoning Ordinance to require that certain items shown
on the Official Map be considered in the use and future development
of land in order to provide for the protection of natural resources
as specifically authorized by MPC Sections 603(f)(2) and 604(1).[2]
C.
It is the intent of the Board of Supervisors, to the
maximum extent feasible, to use the Official Map as one of many tools
to implement the Comprehensive Plan. The Board of Supervisors intends
that the Official Map be notification to landowners of the policies
of the Comprehensive Plan and the manner in which the Board of Supervisors
seeks to implement those policies.
All terms defined in Section 107 of the MPC[1] shall have the definitions set forth therein unless modified
by this section. All terms set forth in this section shall have the
meaning indicated:
The Hellam Township Comprehensive Plan Update dated March,
2002, prepared by C.S. Davidson, Inc., and adopted by Resolution No.
2002-15 on May 16, 2002.
A prohibition on the removal of more than 20% of the trees
with a diameter in excess of six inches measured at a height four
feet above the ground nor more than 20% of the total area, unless
such tree is diseased or has been damaged by weather or other natural
causes, may be removed. Any area on the Official Map identified as
a continuous canopy woodland corridor reservation cannot be timbered
nor have more than 20% of the trees existing on the date of enactment
of this chapter removed for any purpose, including but not limited
to the erection of structures, unless the landowner files a mitigation
plan with the Township and follows all provisions in Article IV of
the MPC.[2] The Board of Supervisors intends woodland reservations
to preserve open space and natural features and resources within the
Township. The Board of Supervisors also intends woodland reservations
to encourage the recharge of the Township's ground waters.
The Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, 53 P.S. § 10101
et seq., and as it may be amended in the future.
The Township of Hellam, York County, Pennsylvania.
A scenic geologic feature which has been identified in the
Pennsylvania Geologic Survey publication entitled Outstanding Scenic
Geologic Features of Pennsylvania. An area designated as a unique
geologic feature on the Official Map shall not be altered, regraded
or built upon unless the landowner follows all provisions in this
chapter and Article IV of the MPC. The unique geologic features include
the following:
CHIMNEY ROCKLocated one mile north of Hallam Borough, spectacular twin pinnacles of Hellam conglomerate rise 30 feet above the ridge line in a dense stand of oak trees.
WILDCAT RUN CLIFFS AND GORGEAbout two miles west of Accomac, the wild and scenic gorge of Wildcat Run exposes vertical cliffs of the Chickies Formation.
ROUNDTOP OVERLOOKOn crest of the Hellam Point ridge, a rock overlook composed of Chickies quartzite. Minor amount of Catoctin slate present.
HELLAM POINTA ridge line composed of Chickies quartzite which extents out into the Susquehanna River forming a point.
SCHULL'S ROCKA cliff of Chickies quartzite just east of the mouth of the Codorus Creek.
The Board of Supervisors of the Township of
Hellam hereby adopts that Map prepared by C.S. Davidson, Inc., dated
October 9, 2003, attached hereto and incorporated herein as Exhibit
A,[1] indicating existing and proposed streets and highways,
existing and proposed open space and recreation areas, including but
not limited to woodland reservations, and unique geologic features
within the Township as the Official Map of the Township of Hellam.
[1]
Editor's Note: The Zoning Map is on file in
the Township offices.
The proper officials of the Township are authorized
to take all steps necessary to record the Official Map in the Office
of the Recorder of Deeds in and for York County, Pennsylvania, as
required by Section 402(c) of the MPC.[1] The proper officials of the Township are further authorized
to transfer certified copies of the Official Map to the entities required
to be provided with copies of an official map by the MPC.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 10402(c).
