[Added 12-28-1971 by Ord. No. 4-35]
The following are the community development
objectives of Whitpain Township:
A. To retain the character of the Township as it now
stands while adjusting to the exigencies of the changing times.
B. To preserve the land use policy as indicated by zoning
while eliminating conflicting land uses, strip commercialization and
problem areas.
C. To consider the establishment of a capital improvement
program and budget in order to provide funds for established goals
and objectives.
D. To limit acreage requirements in the low-density areas
north of Skippack Pike with a view towards establishing a rural-agricultural-residential
environment.
E. To rezone to stop strip commercialization along Route
202 south of Skippack Pike, with all commercial uses in shopping centers.
F. To consider the area between the turnpike and the
Philadelphia Electric lines as a possible location for nonresidential
development.
G. To consider areas suitable for additional industrial
land.
H. To prohibit development of lands which are contemplated
for foreseeable future use for roads, schools, mass transit, parks
and playgrounds and other public uses.
I. To consider the establishment of a "Towne Center"
or municipal center which would include the existing buildings of
the Township but would add to them an attractive library, a fire station,
an art gallery and such other imaginative uses as to make a focal
point of interest in the Township for the community.
J. To consider the establishment of commercial-industrial-residential
uses in such proportion as to keep the total of all taxes at approximately
the current level.
K. To consider an immediate development of recreational
facilities in the southwest section of the Township.
L. To further study open space areas with a view towards
reserving portions of the land, even considering Township purchases,
both to limit massive residential developments and, more importantly,
to assure that the population of the Township will have the open spaces
and pure air that might become a rare commodity in the future if not
controlled at the present time.