This chapter is enacted pursuant to the Pennsylvania Municipalities
Planning Code and may be cited as the Waynesboro Subdivision and Land
Development Ordinance.
This chapter is adopted for the following purposes:
A. To regulate certain subdivision and land development activities within
the Borough by providing for a uniform method for the submission of
sketch, preliminary and final plats.
B. To assure the proper layout or arrangement of land and space.
C. To require proper design of streets to accommodate projected traffic
and facilitate fire protection.
D. To provide adequate facilities and easements or rights-of-way for
drainage and utilities.
E. To make adequate provisions for curbs, storm drainage facilities,
sidewalks, sanitary sewers, water supply and other required public
facilities.
The subdivision and land development regulations set forth in
this chapter are made in accordance with the Comprehensive Plan of
the Borough of Waynesboro and are intended to achieve the following
goals:
A. To promote, protect and facilitate one or more of the following:
the public health, safety, morals, general welfare, coordinated and
practical community development, proper density of population, the
provision of adequate lighting and air, vehicle parking and loading
space, transportation, water supply, sewage, public grounds and other
public requirements.
B. To prevent one or more of the following: overcrowding of land; blight;
danger and congestion in travel and transportation; and loss of health,
life or property from fire, panic or other dangers.
C. To assist orderly, efficient and integrated development of land,
to provide for the coordination of existing streets and public utilities
with new facilities, to provide for efficient and orderly extension
of community services and facilities at minimum cost and maximum convenience,
to ensure conformance of land utilization with the Borough Comprehensive
Plan, and to secure equitable handling of all subdivision and land
development plans by providing uniform procedures and standards for
observance by subdividers and the Borough.
This chapter shall apply in the following circumstances:
A. To all subdivision and land development plans submitted after the
effective date of this chapter.
B. In the case of planned residential developments (PRDs), the development regulations, standards, principles and procedures specified in Chapter
295, Zoning, this chapter and the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code shall govern. PRDs shall be subject to the plan requirements,
completion and guaranteeing of improvements requirements, design standards
and required improvements of this chapter.
C. Any replatting or resubdivision of land, including a change of a
recorded plan, shall comply with the provisions of this chapter.
D. The granting of a conditional use approval, variance, or special exception for a proposed project, and the submission of a site plan pursuant to Chapter
295, Zoning, shall not exempt an applicant from the requirement to submit a subdivision or land development plan pursuant to this chapter.