[Amended 8-2-2023 by Ord. No. 440]
A. Open lands include the following:
(1) Resource-protected lands, including farmland which is part of a farmland
preservation conditional use development.
B. Open lands shall be owned and/or maintained by any one of the following
entities, provided that there shall be no building, development or
use of open lands, except as is consistent with the recorded plans
and with the purposes of providing for open lands for recreation,
conservation and the aesthetic satisfaction of the residents and/or
general public:
(1) The Township of Lower Makefield;
(2) A property owners' association;
(3) The Farmland Preservation Corporation of Lower Makefield;
(4) A conservancy or land trust;
(5) The owner of a nonresidential development or multifamily development
created pursuant to an approved subdivision or land development plan;
(6) An individual property owner with preserved open space subject to
a recorded declaration of restrictions and/or conservation easement
as approved by the Township.
All open lands shall be shown on preliminary, final and record plans in accordance with the requirements of Chapter
178, Subdivision and Land Development.
All open lands, shown on the final development
plan, as filed with the Township of Lower Makefield and subsequently
recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Bucks County, must
be conveyed in accordance with the methods stated in the subdivision
and land development plan. The recorded plan and the deeds must indicate
that there shall be no building, development or use, except as is
consistent with the purposes of providing for open lands for recreation,
conservation and the aesthetic satisfaction of the residents of the
Township and/or general public.