[Amended 10-9-1984 by Ord. No. 84-18]
Before final approval of any plans of subdivision
or land development, said plans must be first submitted to the Delaware
County Planning Commission for a report thereon to the Board of Township
Commissioners. Pending receipt and consideration of such report, the
Township of Marple shall defer final action on any proposed subdivision
or land development plans; provided, however, that if a report of
the Delaware County Planning Commission is not received by the Township
of Marple within 20 days from the submission of said plans to the
Delaware County Planning Commission or within such further time as
may be agreed upon between the Board of Township Commissioners and
the Delaware County Planning Commission, then the Board of Township
Commissioners shall proceed to finally pass on the subdivision or
land development plans as submitted.
[Amended 5-8-1972 by Ord. No. 72-9; 5-12-1980 by Ord. No.
80-8; 5-11-1981 by Ord. No. 81-8; 10-9-1984 by Ord. No. 84-18; 2-8-1998 by Ord. No. 88-3]
A. Each application for approval of any preliminary plan
shall be accompanied by 22 copies of such plan and one vicinity plan.
Each initial application for approval of any plan shall be accompanied
by a filing fee as set from time to time by resolution of the Board
of Commissioners, payable to the Township, also a fee for the Delaware
County Planning Commission and the Township Engineer for their plan
reviews, subject to their current fee schedules. In addition, all
subdivisions containing four or more lots shall pay a filing fee as
set from time to time by resolution of the Board of Commissioners
and all land development of two acres shall pay a filing fee as set
from time to time by resolution of the Board of Commissioners. Township
Engineer fees are applicable to all stages of any subdivision. If
the Marple Township Planning Commission denies any stage of a subdivision,
then a resubmittal of new plans and fees will be required.
B. All plans shall show or be accompanied by the following
information:
(1) Proposed subdivision name or identifying title.
(2) Municipality in which the subdivision is located.
(3) North point, scale and date.
(4) Name of the owner of the property or of his authorized
agent.
(5) Name of the registered engineer, registered surveyor
or registered architect responsible for the plan.
(6) Tract boundaries with bearings and distances.
(7) Contours at vertical intervals of five feet or, in
the case of relatively level tracts, at such lesser intervals as may
be necessary for satisfactory study and planning of the tract.
(8) Datum to which contour elevations refer. Where reasonably
practicable, data shall refer to known, established elevations.
(9) All existing watercourses, tree masses and other significant
natural features.
(10)
All existing buildings, sanitary and storm sewers,
water mains, culverts, petroleum or petroleum products' lines, fire
hydrants, gas mains, telephone conduits and other significant man-made
features.
(11)
All existing streets on or adjacent to the tract,
including name, right-of-way width and cartway width.
(12)
All existing property lines, easements and rights-of-way
and the purpose for which the easements or rights-of-way have been
established.
(13)
Location and width of all proposed streets,
alleys, rights-of-way and easements; proposed lot lines with approximate
dimensions; proposed minimum building setback lines for each street;
playgrounds, public buildings, public areas and parcels of land proposed
to be dedicated or reserved for public use.
(14)
Wherever practicable, the preliminary plan shall
show the names of owners of all abutting unplotted land and the names
of all abutting subdivisions.
(15)
Where the preliminary plan covers only a part
of the subdivider's entire holding, a sketch shall be submitted of
the prospective street layout for the remainder.
(16)
The preliminary plan shall be at a scale of
not more than 100 feet to the inch.
(17)
Such plan shall show the zoning boundaries,
if any, that traverse or are within 300 feet of the area covered by
the plan.
(18)
Such plan shall show such street extensions
or spurs as are reasonably necessary to provide adequate street connections
and facilities to adjoining or contiguous developed or undeveloped
areas.
(19)
Such plans shall show the proposed size and
location of sanitary sewers, storm sewers, water mains, stormwater
management structures and erosion and sedimentation control, along
with sufficient engineering design and calculations to satisfactorily
demonstrate to the Township Engineer the feasibility of the proposed
construction.
[Added 5-13-1974 by Ord. No. 74-14; amended 9-12-2005 by Ord. No. 2005-9]
All applications for approval of a subdivision
or land development, whether preliminary or final, shall be acted
upon by the Board of Commissioners of Marple Township and a decision
rendered and communicated to the applicant not later than 90 days
fallowing the date of the regular meeting of the Board of Commissioners
or Planning Agency, whichever first reviews the application, next
following the date the application is filed or after a final order
of court remanding an application, provided that should the next regular
meeting occur more than 30 days following the filing of the application
or the final order of the court, said ninety-day period shall be measured
from the 30th day following the day the application has been filed.
Such plan must be in conformity with all the
provisions of this chapter and the provisions of the Marple Township
Zoning Ordinance and its amendments.
Approval of any preliminary plan shall be effective
for two years only, after the expiration of which such approval shall
be considered canceled and rescinded unless extended, in writing,
by the Board of Commissioners.
[Amended 8-12-1974 by Ord. No. 74-20; 5-12-1980 by Ord. No.
80-8]
The applicant shall submit 22 copies of such
final plan. The Township Board of Commissioners shall render its decision
upon such plan and send notice of such decision to the applicant not
later than 90 days after such plan is filed. Approval shall be indicated
and noted on the plan and shall be recorded by the applicant with
the Recorder of Deeds in and for Delaware County as required by the
Act of Assembly.
Every approval shall be subject to the following
conditions:
A. The owner shall and will agree in writing, in a form
to be approved or prepared by the Solicitor of the Township, that
he will lay out and improve the roads, streets, lanes or alleys and
construct all of the improvements, including necessary grading, paving,
curbs, gutters and other street improvements, including sidewalks,
streetlights on steel poles, one tree per lot planted on the house
side of the sidewalk, fire hydrants, water mains, street signs, storm
sewers and sanitary sewers where connection with any proposed Township
sewer system is practicable as shown on the plan or the application
submitted to the Township or where these improvements are required
as a condition of the approval of the plan by the Board of Commissioners
within the time or times therein specified. The owner shall agree
to install all electric and telephone utilities along the rear portion
of the lots and to provide sufficient right-of-way for such installation
and maintenance by the respective utility company. The owner shall
also erect at least one boundary marker or monument within each development
as an engineering aid to determine the location of such boundaries.
In all cases wherein trunk line sanitary sewer facilities are available,
the owner shall be required to install sanitary sewers and connect
the same to such trunk line sewer, irrespective of the size of the
lots included on said plot plan. If such facilities are not available
but will become available within a reasonable time, such sewers, together
with all necessary laterals extending from the main sewer to the limits
of the street right-of-way or front property line of lots abutting
said street, shall be installed and capped. The laterals shall be
fitted with a trap and standpipe and Philadelphia regulation curb
vent box extended to an elevation of one inch above the proposed finished
grade and shall be located between the curb and sidewalks. In such
event, the owner may also install on-site disposal units, provided
that they are so located as to permit easy and the least expensive
connection to the sewer when it becomes usable.
B. He shall furnish a certificate of a reputable title
insurance company, satisfactory to the Board of Township Commissioners,
which, as of the date of approval, shall set forth the name or names
of the owner or owners of all property covered by such plans and shall
show and shall contain a list of all mortgages, judgments, liens,
easements, contracts and agreements of record in Delaware County,
Pennsylvania, which shall affect the property covered by such plans.
If said certificates of the title insurance company shall disclose
that any such property shall be subject to any mortgage, judgment,
easement, lien, contract or agreement or other matters of record,
then at the option of the Board of Township Commissioners the holders
or owners of such mortgages, judgments, liens, easements, contracts
or agreements shall be required to join in and approve said application
before the same shall be acted upon by the Board of Township Commissioners,
or agree to release the area to be dedicated to the Township from
the lien of said mortgage, judgment or other similar encumbrance.
C. He shall furnish an escrow agreement between himself
(the developer), a Township-designated escrow agent and the Township
of Marple in such amount and under such conditions and form as shall
be prepared by the Township Solicitor and approved by the Board of
Commissioners, to guarantee the performance of the said contract and
to secure the completion of the said improvements within the time
period therein specified. Upon acceptance of the said streets and
improvements, the developer shall enter into a maintenance escrow
agreement between the developer, the Township-designated escrow agent
and the Township of Marple or furnish a maintenance bond issued by
a reputable bonding company and acceptable to the Township of Marple
in such amount and under such conditions and form as shall be approved
by the Board of Commissioners, to guarantee the maintenance of the
roads, streets, curbs, sidewalks, storm sewers and sanitary sewers,
for a period of not less than two years from the date of acceptance
of the roads, streets and public improvements by the Township.
[Amended 9-13-1971 by Ord. No. 71-17; 4-11-1977 by Ord. No.
77-5]
(1) Whenever any of the provisions hereof require that
any work is to be done according to specifications of the Township
Engineer, such specifications shall be construed to mean specifications
and requirements of the Township Engineer, approved by the Township
Board of Commissioners.
(2) The developer shall furnish an escrow agreement to
be executed by the developer, a Township-designated escrow agent and
the Township of Marple in such amount and under such conditions and
form as shall be prepared by the Township Solicitor and approved by
the Board of Commissioners, to guarantee the installation and performance
of all necessary nonpublic improvements, including but not limited
to water and fire hydrants, electric lines and streetlighting, street
signs, monuments and final as-built drawings.
[Amended 4-11-1977 by Ord. No. 77-5]
D. He will install all utilities, including but not limited
to sanitary and storm sewers, before paving any street or before curbs
or sidewalks are constructed.
E. He will notify the Township Manager 24 hours before
the contemplated installation or performance of any work requiring
Township inspection.
F. He will pay all engineering, inspection and legal
expenses which the Township may incur and which are connected with
or incidental to the development, the preparation or the approval
of the foregoing agreements, bonds, resolutions and inspection.
G. Upon completion of all of the foregoing improvements,
the developer agrees, upon the written request of the Township and
no later than three months after such written request, such time being
of the essence, to dedicate to the Township by good and sufficient
deed, with title to be free and clear of all liens and encumbrances,
together with a certificate from a reputable title company acceptable
to the Township so stating, containing a legal description by metes
and bounds, all streets, drainage, easements, rights-of-way for streets,
storm and sanitary sewer facilities and all other public improvements
as indicated on said plan.
[Amended 4-11-1977 by Ord. No. 77-5]
H. He will mark or stake the four major corners of each
lot appearing on the subdivision plan with iron pins not less than
2 1/2 feet in length, embedded or driven to a depth of not less
than two feet. Nothing shall prevent the use of granite or some other
suitable or appropriate marker.
I. He will, before allowing any house to be occupied
on any street included within that portion of the subdivision for
which subdivision plan approval is applied, erect the appropriate
street sign or signs on such streets.
J. Type of streetlights and number of streetlights.
[Added 4-11-1988 by Ord. No. 88-10]