[Ord. 2-1976, 2/3/1976, § 1]
Ordinance No. 20 of the Township of Thornbury as amended, is
hereby amended, revised and reenacted to read as follows.
[Ord. 2-1976, 2/3/1976, § 100]
1.
This chapter is enacted under and pursuant to the Municipalities
Planning Code, Act 247 of 1968, 53 P.S. § 10101 et seq.,
as amended, for the following purposes:
A.
To promote, protect and facilitate the public health, safety, and
general welfare of the inhabitants of the Township of Thornbury by
coordinated and practical community development.
B.
By providing for proper density of population and assuring adequate
light and air; and facilitating the adequate provision of transportation,
police protection, water, sewerage, schools, parks, public grounds.
C.
To prevent overcrowding of land, blight, danger, and congestion in
travel, transportation, loss of health, life or property from fire,
flood, panic or other damage.
2.
The regulations and districts contained herein represent reasonable
consideration as to the character of the districts and their peculiar
suitability for particular uses of land and have been made with a
view to enhancing the existing environment and assuring the development
of a future environment that realizes the greatest possible use and
enjoyment of land on individual properties, balanced against the necessary
protection of the values of buildings and land and the use and enjoyment
of land on adjacent properties, with the objective of promoting and
protecting the public welfare through the regulation of land use and
the process of land development.
[Ord. 2-1976, 2/3/1976, § 101]
In the interpretation and application of the provisions of this
chapter, the said provisions shall be held to be the minimum requirements
for the promotion and protection of the public health, welfare, and
safety. Except as to regulation of development under the Thornbury
Township Planned Residential Development Ordinance of 1973 [Article
26], where the provisions of this chapter impose greater restrictions
than those of any other ordinance or regulation, the provisions of
this chapter shall be controlling. Where the provisions of any statute,
other ordinance or regulation impose greater restrictions than this
chapter, the provisions of such statute, ordinance or regulation shall
be controlling.
[Ord. 2-1976, 2/3/1976, § 102]
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Thornbury
Township Zoning Ordinance of 1976."
