This chapter shall be known as the "Coudersport Subdivision and Land
Development Ordinance."
These regulations are adopted for the following purposes:
A. To protect and provide for the public health, safety,
and general welfare of the Borough of Coudersport.
B. To guide the future growth and development of Borough,
in accordance with the Comprehensive Plan of the Borough of Coudersport.
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 Borough and to encourage the orderly and beneficial development of
the Borough.
E. To protect and conserve the value of land throughout
the Borough, 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 most beneficial relationship between the
uses of land and buildings and the circulation of traffic within the Borough,
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 insure proper legal descriptions and monumenting of
subdivided land.
I. To insure 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
Borough 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 land ownership transfer fully and accurately describe the parcel of land
being subdivided, and the new parcels thus created.