An ordinance permitting, prohibiting, regulating, restricting,
and determining the use of land, watercourses, and other bodies of
water; size, height, bulk, location, erection, construction, repair,
maintenance, alteration, razing, removal and use of structures; the
areas and dimensions of land and bodies of water to be occupied by
uses and structures as well as areas, courts, yards, and other open
spaces and distances to be left unoccupied by uses and structures;
the density of population and intensity of use; and providing for
the administration of such ordinance.
This chapter shall be known as the "Borough of Summit Hill Zoning
Ordinance."
This chapter is enacted for the following purposes:
A. To promote, protect and facilitate one or more of the following:
public health, safety, morals and the general welfare; coordinated
and practical community development and proper density of population;
emergency management preparedness and operations, airports, and national
defense facilities, the provisions of adequate light and air, access
to incident solar energy, police protection, vehicle parking and loading
space, transportation, water, sewerage, schools, recreational facilities,
public grounds, the provision of a safe, reliable and adequate water
supply for domestic, commercial, agricultural or industrial use, and
other public requirements; as well as the preservation of the natural,
scenic and historic values in the environment and preservation of
forests, wetlands, aquifers and floodplains.
B. To prevent one or more of the following: overcrowding of land, blight,
danger and congestion in travel and transportation, loss of health,
life or property from fire, flood, panic or other dangers.
C. To preserve prime agricultural and farmland considering topography,
soil type and classification, and present use.
D. To provide for the use of land within the municipality for residential
housing of various dwelling types encompassing all basic forms of
housing, including single-family and two-family dwellings, and a reasonable
range of multifamily dwellings in various arrangements, mobile homes
and mobile home parks; provided, however, that this chapter shall
not be deemed invalid for the failure to provide for any other specific
dwelling type and nonresidential uses.
E. To accommodate reasonable overall community growth, including population
and employment growth, and opportunities for development of a variety
of residential dwelling types and nonresidential use.