This chapter is enacted pursuant to the Pennsylvania Municipalities
Planning Code[1] and may be cited as the Waynesboro Subdivision and Land
Development Ordinance.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 10101 et seq.
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.
A.
Within the corporate limits of the Borough of Waynesboro, no subdivision
or land development of any lot, tract or parcel of land shall be made,
no street, sanitary sewer, storm sewer, water main or other improvements
in connection therewith shall be laid out, constructed, opened or
dedicated for public use or travel, or for the common use of occupants
of buildings abutting thereon, except in accordance with the provisions
of the chapter.
B.
No lot in a subdivision may be sold, no permit to erect, alter or
repair any building upon land in a subdivision or land development
may be issued, and no building may be erected upon land in a subdivision
or land development unless and until a plan of such subdivision or
land development shall have been approved and properly recorded with
the Franklin County, Pennsylvania, Recorder of Deeds.
C.
Individual lots not meeting the definition of land development nor
subdivision are not subject to the provisions of this chapter.
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[1] shall govern. PRDs shall be subject to the plan requirements,
completion and guaranteeing of improvements requirements, design standards
and required improvements of this chapter.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 10101 et seq.
C.
Any replatting or resubdivision of land, including a change of a
recorded plan, shall comply with the provisions of this chapter.
