This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "West Donegal
Township Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance."
This chapter is adopted for the following purposes:
A. To promote and protect the public health, safety, morals and welfare.
B. To promote orderly, efficient, integrated and harmonious development
in the Township as a means of fulfilling the growth management goals
of the Comprehensive Plan.
C. To require sites suitable for building purposes and human habitation
in keeping with the standards of quality existing in the Township
and to alleviate peril from fire, flood, erosion, excessive noise,
smoke or other menace.
D. To coordinate proposed streets and other improvements with existing
or proposed streets, parks or other features of the Comprehensive
Plan and to provide for drainage, water supply, sewage disposal and
other appropriate utility services.
E. To encourage preservation of adequate open spaces for recreation,
light and air and maintenance of the natural amenities characteristic
of the Township and its residential, commercial, agricultural, industrial,
and public areas.
F. To ensure conformance of subdivision and land development plans with the Comprehensive Plan, Chapter
240, Zoning, of the Code of the Township of West Donegal, and public improvement plans and to ensure coordination of intergovernmental improvement plans and programs.
G. To secure equitable treatment of all subdivision and land development
plans by providing uniform procedures and standards.
H. To ensure that developments are environmentally sound by requiring
preservation of the natural features of the areas to be developed
to the greatest extent practicable, to maintain the economic well-being
of the Township and to prevent unnecessary or undesirable blight,
runoff and pollution.
I. To secure the protection of water resources and drainageways.
J. To establish provisions governing the standards by which streets
shall be granted and improved, and walkways, curbs, gutters, streetlights,
fire hydrants, water and sewage facilities and other improvements
shall be installed as a condition precedent to final approval of plats.
This chapter is enacted pursuant to the authority of the MPC
and the Second Class Township Code and governs all subdivisions and land developments within
West Donegal Township.
The standards and requirements contained in this chapter shall apply as minimum standards for subdivisions and land developments located within West Donegal Township. However, when the Township, in Chapter
240, Zoning, building code, road ordinance, or other ordinance, code, resolution, or regulation other than this chapter, imposes more restrictive standards and requirements than contained herein, such other standards and requirements shall prevail. These municipal standards and requirements shall be subject to enforcement by the agency assigned such jurisdiction by said ordinance, code, resolution, or regulation. Approval of a plan by the Township shall not be construed as an indication that the plan complies with the other local standards or requirements.