This chapter shall be known and cited as the "Bear Creek Township
Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance."
A revision or resubdivision of a plan of record and/or lot of
record shall be considered as a new subdivision and shall come under
the jurisdiction of this chapter.
The regulations set forth in this chapter may, from time to
time, be amended by the Bear Creek Township Board of Supervisors.
The following requirements shall be observed prior to enacting any
amendments to this chapter:
A. A public hearing on the proposed amendment shall be held by the Board
of Supervisors pursuant to public notice.
B. In the case of an amendment other than that prepared by the Planning
Commission, the Board of Supervisors shall submit such amendment to
the Planning Commission not less than 30 days prior to the public
hearing.
C. The proposed amendment shall be submitted to the Luzerne County Planning
Commission not less than 30 days prior to the public hearing.
D. The proposed amendment shall not be enacted unless public notice
is given which shall include the time and place of the meeting at
which passage will be considered and a reference to a place within
the municipality where copies of the proposed amendment may be examined
without charge or obtained for a charge not greater than the cost
of reproduction.
E. Public notice of the proposed amendment shall include the full text
thereof or the title and a brief summary, prepared by the municipal
solicitor, setting forth all the provisions in reasonable detail.
If the full text is not provided, a copy shall be supplied to the
newspaper in which the public notice is placed and an attested copy
shall be placed on file at the Luzerne County Law Library.
F. Within 30 days following the adoption of an amendment to this chapter,
the Council shall forward a certified copy of the amendment to the
Luzerne County Planning Commission.
The provisions of this chapter that only reference provisions
of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code shall be deemed to
be automatically superseded and replaced by any applicable amendments
to such provisions of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code
at the date such amendments become effective as state law.
Decisions rendered by the Board of Supervisors may be appealed
to a court of proper jurisdiction in accordance with the procedures,
provisions and time limitations as contained in Article X-A of the
Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, Act 247, as amended.