This chapter is enacted and ordained under the grant of powers
contained in the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code (MPC).
This chapter shall be known as and may be cited as the "Borough
of Paxtang Zoning Ordinance," "Paxtang Zoning Ordinance" or "Zoning
Ordinance."
The purpose of this chapter is to:
A. Promote, protect and facilitate one or more of the following: the
public health, safety, morals or general welfare; the provision of
adequate light and air; and other public requirements.
B. Prevent one or more of the following: overcrowding; blight; or loss
of health, life or property from fire, flood or other dangers.
C. Establish a Zoning Map dividing Paxtang Borough into zoning districts
with varying regulations.
D. Permit, prohibit, regulate and determine the uses of land, watercourses
and other bodies of water; the size, height, bulk, location, erection,
construction, repair, expansion, razing, removal and use of buildings
and structures, as well as yards and other open areas to be left unoccupied.
E. Establish the requirements for density and intensity of uses.
F. Promote innovative design to preserve and enhance the established
and important sense of community, neighborhoods and character areas.
G. Provide diverse housing opportunities, including housing that is
affordable.
H. Encourage and accommodate appropriate and compatible adaptive reuse,
replacement, infill development and redevelopment.
I. Serve as a tool that is part of an overall plan for the orderly,
appropriate and compatible preservation, growth and development in
the Paxtang Borough, by incorporating the overall objectives and principles
of, as well as seeking to implement the most recent version of, the
Paxtang Borough Comprehensive Plan and/or other applicable plans adopted
by Paxtang Borough.
J. Affect any additional purposes provided for in Articles
I,
VI, VII-A, and elsewhere in the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code (MPC).
The granting of a zoning permit for the erection or use of a
structure, building or lot shall not constitute a representation,
guarantee or warranty of any kind or nature by the Borough, or an
official or employee thereof, of the safety of any structure, building,
use or other proposed plan from cause whatsoever and shall create
no liability upon or a course of action against the Borough or such
public official or employee for any damage that may be pursuant thereto.