Section 501 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities
Planning Code (Act 247), as amended, provides that Lower Makefield Township may
regulate subdivision and land development within the Township by enacting
a subdivision and land development ordinance.
This chapter requires that all plans for the
subdivision or development of land lying within Lower Makefield Township
be submitted for approval to the Lower Makefield Township Board of
Supervisors. Further, all such plans shall be reviewed by the Lower
Makefield Township Planning Commission in accordance with procedures
set forth in this chapter prior to submission to the Board of Supervisors.
The provisions of this chapter shall be held
to be minimum requirements to meet the purposes stated herein. Where
the provisions of this chapter impose greater restrictions than those
of any statute, other ordinance or regulation, the provisions of this
chapter shall prevail. Where the provisions of any statute, other
ordinance or regulation impose greater restrictions than those of
this chapter, the provisions of such statute, ordinance or regulation
shall prevail.
The Bucks County Planning Commission is empowered
under Section 502 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code
(Act 247) to review and report on each subdivision or land development
plan before local approval and recording, as required by law. The
submission of plans to the Bucks County Planning Commission for review
and report shall be as provided in this chapter. After consideration
of the county report, the Planning Commission and the Board of Supervisors
may proceed to preliminary and final action.
It shall be unlawful for the owner or any other
person, firm or corporation owning or controlling any land in the
Township to initiate a land development or subdivide any lot, tract
or parcel of land or to lay out, construct, open or dedicate for public
use or travel any street, sanitary or storm sewer drainage facility
or other facility in connection therewith for the common use of occupants
of buildings located within the subdivision or land development, unless
final plans of such subdivision or land development shall have been
prepared and signed by and sealed by a professional engineer or land
surveyor or landscape architect, as permitted by the Landscape Architects'
Registration Law, duly and currently registered in the State of Pennsylvania;
submitted to and approved, in writing, thereon by the Lower Makefield
Township Supervisors and recorded in the Bucks County Recorder of
Deeds Office in Doylestown, Pennsylvania; and the improvements required
by the Board of Supervisors in connection therewith have either been
constructed or the Board of Supervisors has been assured of proper
completion by the deposit of funds or securities in escrow, sufficient
to cover the cost of the required improvements and inspections as
determined by the methods set forth by this chapter.