This chapter shall be known as the "Derry Township Subdivision
and Land Development Ordinance."
These regulations are adopted for the following purposes:
A. To protect and provide for the public health, safety, and general
welfare of the Township of Derry.
B. To guide the future growth and development of Derry Township in accordance
with the Comprehensive Plan for the Township of Derry.
C. To provide for adequate light, air and privacy; to secure safety
from fire, flood and other danger, and to prevent overcrowding of
the land and undue congestion of population.
D. To protect the character and social and economic stability of the
Township of Derry and to encourage the orderly and beneficial development
of the Township of Derry.
E. To protect and conserve the value of land throughout the Township
of Derry, and the value of buildings and improvements upon the land
and to minimize the conflicts among the uses of land and buildings.
F. To guide public and private policy and action in order to provide
adequate and efficient transportation, water supply, sewerage, schools,
parks, playgrounds, recreation, and other public requirements and
facilities.
G. To provide the most beneficial relationship between the uses of land
and buildings and the circulation of traffic within the Township,
having particular regard to the avoidance of congestion in the streets
and highways, and the pedestrian traffic movements appropriate to
the various uses of land and buildings, and to provide for the proper
location and width of streets and building lines.
H. To establish reasonable standards of design and procedures for subdivision
and resubdivisions, in order to further the orderly layout and use
of land; and to insure proper legal descriptions and monumenting of
subdivided land.
I. To insure that public facilities are available and easements are
available and will have a sufficient capacity to serve the proposed
subdivision or land development.
J. To prevent the pollution of air, streams and ponds, to assure the
adequacy of drainage facilities, to safeguard the water table, and
to encourage the wise use and management of natural resources in order
to preserve the community and value of the land.
K. To preserve the natural beauty and topography of the Township and
to ensure appropriate development with regard to these natural features.
L. To provide for open spaces through efficient design and layout of
the land.
M. And finally, to ensure that documents prepared as part of a landownership
transfer fully and accurately describe the parcel of land being subdivided,
and the new parcels thus created.