The purpose of the Natural Features Overlay District is to ensure
the public health, safety and welfare through the protection of slopes,
streams, wetlands, and surface waters which are considered some of
the Township's most important natural resources. The Natural Features
Overlay includes the following:
A. Steep Slope Protection Overlay Zoning District;
B. Stream Protection Overlay Zoning District.
C. Surface Water Protection Overlay Zoning District; and
D. Wetland Protection Overlay Zoning District.
Where a proposed lot, improvement, or earth disturbance is located
250 feet or greater from a potential natural feature overlay district;
consists of a lot add on which no new lots, structures and public
improvements are created, the overlay district does not need to be
located or delineated as required within this article. In such cases,
the overlay district shall be located using any existing available
data, such as York County GIS data, USGS topographical maps, and similar
sources. If a natural feature is located within the two-hundred-fifty-foot
distance, the natural feature and associated overlay shall be delineated
to its extent on the property.