This chapter is enacted pursuant to the Pennsylvania Municipalities
Planning Code[1] and may be cited as the "Subdivision and Land Development
Ordinance of the City of Lock Haven."
[1]
Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 10101 et seq.
This chapter is adopted pursuant to the provisions of the Pennsylvania
Municipalities Planning Code, as amended, for the purpose of ensuring
sites for building purposes and human habitation and to provide for
the harmonious development of the City of Lock Haven, for adequate
open spaces, for traffic, recreation, light and air, and for the proper
distribution of population thereby creating conditions favorable to
the health, safety, morals and general welfare of the citizens of
the City.
A.
No subdivision of any lot, tract or parcel of land or any land development as defined in § 352-4 shall be effected in the City of Lock Haven; no street, sanitary sewer, storm sewer, water main or other facilities in connection therewith shall be laid out, constructed, opened or dedicated for public use of travel, or for the common use of occupants of buildings thereon unless and until a final subdivision plan has been approved by the Planning Commission in the manner prescribed herein and recorded; nor otherwise used except in strict accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
B.
No lot in a subdivision may be sold; no permit to erect, alter or
repair any building upon land in a subdivision may be issued; and
no building may be erected in a subdivision, unless and until a final
subdivision plat has been approved by the Planning Commission and
properly recorded with the Clinton County, Pennsylvania Recorder of
Deeds, and until constructed of the improvements required in connection
therewith has been guaranteed in the manner prescribed herein.
