This chapter shall be known as and may be cited as the "Borough
of Steelton Zoning Ordinance."
This chapter is enacted and ordained under the grant of powers
by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Act 247,
The Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, July 31, 1968, as amended
("MPC").
This chapter is enacted for the following purposes:
A. To promote, protect and facilitate one or more of the following:
the orderly and efficient integration of land development within the
Borough, the public health, safety, morals, general welfare, coordinated
and practical community development, proper density of population,
civil defense, disaster evacuation, the provision of adequate light
and air, police protection, vehicle parking and loading space, transportation,
water, water resources and drainage ways, sewerage, schools, public
grounds and other public requirements, including adequate sites for
recreation, conservation, scenic and other open space purposes as
well as;
B. To prevent one or more of the following: overcrowding of land, blight,
danger and congestion in travel and transportation, loss of health,
life or property from fire, flood, panic or other dangers. This chapter
is made in accordance with an overall program, and with consideration
for the character of the municipality, its various parts, and the
suitability of the various parts for particular uses and structures.
C. To implement the purposes and objectives of the Borough of Steelton,
Dauphin County, Pennsylvania Comprehensive Plan 2002 or such portions
of the Comprehensive Plan as may be applicable to this chapter.
The community development objectives are as follows:
A. To provide an overall agreed-upon framework of policy against which
individual proposals can be evaluated by the legislative body of the
community.
B. To provide a framework within which physical planning for needed
facilities can be accomplished.
C. To establish long-range development responsibilities and policies
to which individual property owners, businessmen and industrialists
can prepare and coordinate their plans for development.
D. To establish a consensus about long-term growth potentials, objectives
and priorities so that the community undertakes development projects
based upon logic, relief coordination and economy.
The social objectives are as follows.
A. Social planning. To develop a mechanism for social planning in the
community for coordination effort, avoiding duplication and more adequately
meeting unmet or partially met needs of the community.
B. Health and environmental sanitation. To provide and make available
to all members of the community the best health care and environmental
sanitation possible. To support local, county and state agencies in
overall health planning and development of preventative health programs.
Enforce all ordinances in such areas as air and water pollution.
C. Housing. To provide decent housing for every member the community
in order to meet their physical and psychological needs. To provide
adequate enforcement of all codes and ordinances, which will insure
the health, safety and welfare of residents of the Borough. To develop
residential opportunities which are flexible and open, permitting
a mixture of people in all areas. To encourage housing and land development
procedures which permit improvement and experimentation in housing
types, construction, lot sizes, open space and community facilities.
D. Recreation. To enhance and enrich the lives of members of the community
by providing the means for a more stimulating and rewarding use of
increasing leisure time. To provide that recreational facilities,
such as playgrounds and parks, are to be improved and expanded. To
reserve sites for active and passive recreation in areas of potential
urbanization.
The community relies on the economy of the surrounding region
for employment opportunities, commercial development, and industrial
growth. Thus, the Borough will continue to be a "bedroom community"
and be located near both commercial and employment centers.
A. Personal. The community should be based on an economy capable of
assuring employment opportunities and a rising standard of living.
Increase labor productivity through such measures as retraining and
general adult education, improving vocation technical education for
prospective entrants to the labor force and implement retention programs
for prospective school dropouts. Support and assist in all projects,
which will contribute to the alleviation of unemployment and underemployment
and the raising of incomes.
B. Commercial. To encourage new commercial development, which will take
the form of unified and concentrated centers. To provide varied sites
suitable for a variety of outlets. To plan for a minimum conflict
with other area activities. To effectively use and develop old commercial
centers that are important to the area's economy.
C. Industrial. To develop a physical framework which is conducive to
the retention of existing industries and the attraction of new economic
activities in the Borough. To provide space for industry which is
free from residential and other nonresidential land use intrusions.
To seek the minimization of industrial blight and blight effects of
industries on their neighbors.