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.
To protect the character and social and economic stability of the
Township of Kingston and to encourage the orderly and beneficial development
of the Township of Kingston.
To protect and conserve the value of land throughout the Township
of Kingston, and the value of buildings and improvements upon the
land and to minimize the conflicts among the uses of land and buildings.
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.
To provide the most beneficial relationship between the uses of land
and buildings and the circulation of traffic within the Township of
Kingston, 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.
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.
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.
And finally, to ensure that documents prepared as part of a land
ownership transfer fully and accurately describe the parcel of land
being subdivided, and the new parcels thus created.
The Board of Supervisors of Township of Kingston is vested by law
with the control of the subdivision of land and land development within
the Township of Kingston by Act 247 of 1968, the Pennsylvania Municipalities
Planning Code, as amended. The Board of Supervisors shall retain the
authority to approve all subdivision plans and land development plans
as required herein.
The Planning Commission is hereby designated by the Board of Supervisors
as an agency which shall review and make recommendations on preliminary
and final subdivision and land development plans as required herein,
prior to action by the Board of Supervisors, and, when provided by
ordinance, make other recommendations.
No subdivision, as herein defined, of any lot, tract or parcel of
land shall be effected and no street, alley, sanitary sewer, sanitary
sewer, storm sewer, water main or other facilities 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
or to abut thereon, except in strict accordance with the provisions
of this chapter. No lot in any subdivision may be sold, and no permit
to erect, alter or repair any building upon land in a subdivision
may be issued; and no building may be erected in a subdivision, unless
and until a subdivision plan has been approved and recorded; and until
the improvements required by the Board of Supervisors in connection
therewith have either been constructed or guaranteed as herein provided
in § 612.
Land development, as herein defined, must comply with the regulations
contained herein. Such compliance shall include, but not be limited
to: the filing of preliminary and final plats, the dedication and
improvement of rights-of-way, streets and roads, and the payment of
fees and charges as established by the Board of Supervisors.
Land development plans shall indicate the location of each structure
and clearly define each unit and shall indicate public easements,
common areas, and improvements, all easements appurtenant to each
unit, and improvements to public rights-of-way. Developments are subject
to the zoning regulations as they apply to use and density requirements,
setbacks, parking and other features, and shall be indicated on the
land development plans.
In interpreting and applying the provisions of this chapter, they
shall be held to be minimum requirements for the promotion of public
health, safety, comfort, convenience, and general welfare.
Where any provision of this chapter imposes restriction different
from those imposed by any other provision of this chapter or any other
ordinance, rule, or regulation, or other provision of law, whichever
provisions are more restrictive or impose higher standards shall control.
This chapter is not intended to abrogate any easement, covenant
or any other private agreement or restriction, provided that where
the provisions of this chapter are more restrictive or impose higher
standards or regulations than such easement, covenant, or other private
agreement or restriction, the requirements of this chapter shall govern.
Where the provisions of the easement, covenant or private agreement
or restriction impose duties and obligations more restrictive, or
higher standards than the requirements of these regulations, or the
determinations of the Board of Supervisors in approving a subdivision
or in enforcing this chapter, and such private provisions are not
inconsistent with this chapter or determinations thereunder, then
such private provisions shall be operative and supplemental to these
regulations and determinations made thereunder.