All applications for preliminary plan approval
shall include but not be limited to the following information:
A. All plans shall be prepared by a professional land
surveyor and shall also contain the certification of a professional
engineer where the provisions of this chapter require services that
may only be rendered by a professional engineer. All applicants should
refer to the Professional Engineers Registration Law, 63 P.S. 148
et seq., as amended, for further information in this regard.
B. The preliminary plan shall be drawn at a scale of
at least one inch equals 100 feet.
C. Zoning classification of the land.
E. The plan shall show or be accompanied by the following:
(1) A draft of protective covenants, if any.
(2) A title to include:
(a)
The name by which the subdivision will be recorded.
(b)
The location by municipality, county and state.
(c)
The names and addresses of the owner or owners.
(d)
The name of the registered professional engineer
and/or registered professional land surveyor who surveyed the property
and prepared the plan.
(e)
North point, date and graphic scale.
(3) Tract boundaries with bearings, distances and area
in acres to the nearest hundredths.
(4) Existing easements, their location, width and distance.
(5) Tract closures with an allowable error of not greater
than 1 to 10,000.
(6) Contours at vertical intervals of two feet for land
areas with slope of five percent or less and at five-foot intervals
for land areas with a slope of greater than 5%. Contour lines must
extend 100 feet on all sides.
(7) Datum to which contour elevations refer.
(9) Existing physical features to include:
(a)
Watercourses, culverts, bridges and drains.
(b)
Buildings, sewers, water mains and fire hydrants.
(c)
Streets and alleys on or adjacent to the tract,
including name, right-of-way widths and cartway widths.
(d)
Telephone conduit line, electric power transmission
lines, petroleum product lines and other significant man-made features.
(10)
Proposed improvements shall include (in scale
dimensions):
(a)
The location name and width of all proposed
streets and alleys and paved cartway widths.
(b)
All rights-of-way and easements.
(e)
Reservations of ground for public use.
(f)
A general drainage plan for stormwater to include
proposed flow of stormwater in relation to natural channels.
(g)
A plan of the proposed water distribution system
or a plan showing the location of individual wells.
(h)
A plan of the proposed sanitary sewerage system
or a plan, where required, showing the proposed location of on-lot
sewage disposal facilities. This plan shall be in accordance with
the Pennsylvania Sewage Facilities Act (Act 537), as amended.
(i)
The proposed land use of the improvements.
(j)
The names and addresses of abutting property
owners.
(k)
Where the preliminary plan covers only a part
of the subdivider's entire holding, a sketch shall be submitted of
the prospective street layout of the remainder of the land.
F. The subdivider shall provide such additional information
as may be required by the Planning Commission, Board of Commissioners,
Zoning Officer or Township Engineer or other Township agency or organization
in order to more fully evaluate the proposed subdivision and its effect
on adjacent property or the Township as a whole. Such information
may include:
(1) Street profiles showing existing ground elevations
and proposed center line street grades.
(2) The subsurface condition of the tract.
(3) Typical cross sections of roadways and sidewalks.
(4) Sizes of water pipes and location of valves and fire
hydrants.
(5) Location of manholes, invert elevations, grades and
sizes of sanitary sewers.
(6) If the proposed subdivision is located in a designated
floodplain, base flood elevation data shall be contained in the plan.