[Adopted 12-15-2010 by Ord. No. 682; amended in its entirety 7-18-2012 by Ord. No. 700]
A. 
This article shall be known and may be cited as the "Upper Allen Township Local Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance Ordinance."
B. 
This article is enacted under authority of the Local Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance Act, Act No. 76 of 1977, as amended, 72 P.S. § 4722 et seq., otherwise known as "LERTA."
C. 
The purpose of this article is to affix the boundaries of a deteriorated area located within the Township for the purpose of exempting from real estate taxation, for specified periods, improvements of industrial, commercial or other business property.
The boundaries of the designated deteriorated area qualifying for temporary tax abatement from Upper Allen Township under LERTA shall consist of the plot consisting of approximately 8.56 acres more particularly bounded and described as set forth below:
LAND DESCRIPTION
All that certain tract of land, together with the improvements thereon erected, situate largely in the Township of Upper Allen and partly in the Borough of Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, described as follows:
Beginning at a point marked by a stake in the eastern line of Shepherdstown Road (L.R. 21098), which said point is 359.65 feet north of corner of lands now or formerly of Christian Hess, as measured along the eastern line of said Shepherdstown Road; thence extending along the eastern line of Shepherdstown Road (L.R. 21098), North 12 degrees 10 minutes 30 seconds West, 436.0 feet to a point; thence by the same in a northwardly direction, by the arc of a circle curving to the right, said circle having a radius of 1,612.28 feet, the arc distance of 349.63 feet to a point; thence still by the eastern line of Shepherdstown Road, North 00 degrees 15 minutes 00 seconds East, 156.92 feet to a point at corner of lot now or formerly of Richard Wevodau; thence along the line of said lot now or formerly of Richard Wevodau, being also the northern line of a 14-foot-wide dirt lane, North 71 degrees 15 minutes East, 156.6 feet to a point; thence continuing along the northern line of said 14-foot-wide dirt lane, being also along the southern line of lands formerly of Elizabeth K. Golden and devised to Harry Golden and wife, North 67 degrees 15 minutes 20 seconds East, 208.84 feet to a stake; thence along the line of other lands of the Elizabeth K. Golden estate, of which this is a part, South 11 degrees 17 minutes 25 seconds East, 894.02 feet to a stake; thence by the same, South 64 degrees 35 minutes 30 seconds West, 430.0 feet to a point marked by a stake in the eastern line of Shepherdstown Road (L.R. 21098), aforementioned, at the point and place of beginning. Having thereon erected a brick farm dwelling, frame barn and outbuildings.
Being the same premises which was awarded to Hazel G. Wevodau (also known as Hazel R. Wevodau) and Nevin Wevodau, her husband, by adjudication and decree amending real estate issued by the Orphans' Court Division of the Court of Common Pleas in and for Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, on June 17, 1969, to File No. 3050, a certified copy of which was duly recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds in and for Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, in Deed Book "G," Volume 23, Page 570. The said Nevin Wevodau died on September 29, 1981, survived by his wife, the said Hazel R. Wevodau (a/k/a Hazel G. Wevodau) (the decedent herein), in whom title vested by operation of law as surviving tenant by the entireties and whose administrator d.b.n.c.t.a. is the grantor herein.
(the "deteriorated area").