The Township Committee of the Township of Liberty hereby finds
that in order to preserve and protect the health, safety and welfare
of Liberty Township, particularly the residents and businesses in
the Mountain Lake area and their property therein situate, controls
on development beyond those applying to lands found elsewhere in the
Township are required. The Township Committee finds:
A. That protection and preservation of certain panoramic views of Mountain
Lake upland from the shoreline of the lake is required in the interests
of the prosperity, civic pride and general welfare of the People.
B. That preservation of such views will strengthen and preserve the
unique environmental heritage of the area.
C. That preservation of such views will stabilize and enhance the aesthetic
and economic vitality and values of the areas within which such views
are preserved, as well as the rest of the Township.
No land shall be used or occupied and no structure shall be
designed, erected, altered, used or occupied except in conformity
with all regulations established in this Article and upon performance
with all conditions herein set forth, as well as regulations governing
land use set forth in other Articles of this chapter or other ordinances
of Liberty Township.
There shall be established a Mountain Lake Overlay Zone which
shall encompass all land within 1,000 feet of the shoreline of Mountain
Lake as designated on the map titled "Zoning Map, Mountain Lake, Liberty
Township," dated April 1, 1991, and any subsequent amendment thereof.
Within the Mountain Lake Overlay Zone, no structure shall be
built to a height greater than the height of the bottom of the highest
window of the next habitable structure up-slope from the shore of
Mountain Lake. Where the building up-slope is two or more stories,
the limiting window shall be located in the second story.
Any plan, sketch, design, elevation or representation of a proposal
for construction, reconstruction or addition in the overlay zone shall
indicate and affirm that the proposal conforms to this Article, and
so note on the document presented to the proper municipal official.