The Board of Supervisors may introduce and/or
consider amendments to this chapter and to the Zoning Map, as proposed
by a member of the Board of Supervisors, the Planning Commission,
or by a petition of a person or persons residing or owning property
within the Township.
A.
Petitions for amendments shall be filed with the Planning
Commission and the petitioners, upon such filing, shall pay an advertising
deposit and a filing fee in accordance with the fee schedule. The
Planning Commission shall review the proposed amendment and report
its findings and recommendations in writing to the Board of Supervisors.
B.
Any proposed amendment presented to the Board of Supervisors
without written findings and recommendations from the Kilbuck Township
Planning Commission and the Allegheny County Department of Economic
Development shall be referred to these agencies for review prior to
the public hearing by the Township Supervisors. A thirty-day review
period shall be allowed before the Township Supervisors take final
action on the amendment.
Before acting upon a proposed amendment, the
Board of Supervisors shall hold a public hearing thereon. Notice of
such public hearing, containing a brief summary of the proposed amendment
and reference to the place where copies of the same may be examined,
shall be published once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper
of general circulation and in the legal newspaper of the Township.
The first publication shall be not more than 30 days and the second
publication no less than seven days from the date of the hearing.
A landowner who desires to challenge on substantive
grounds the validity of this chapter or Zoning Map, or any provision
thereof, which prohibits or restricts the use of development of land
in which he/she has an interest, may substitute a curative amendment
to the Board of Supervisors with a written request that his/her challenge
and proposed amendment be heard and decided as provided in Section
916.1 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.[1] As with other proposed amendments, the curative amendment
shall be referred to the Kilbuck Township Planning Commission and
the Allegheny County Department of Economic Development at least 30
days before the hearing is conducted.[2]
