[Ord. 1998-12, 12/17/1998, § 100]
A chapter providing for the regulation and control of the subdivision
lots and the development of land: the approval of plans, plots or
replots of land laid out in building lots; standards for the design
of streets, lots, easements, blocks and other improvements; minimum
improvements and construction standards on all streets and required
dedications; the administration of this chapter and penalties for
the violation of this chapter.
[Ord. 1998-12, 12/17/1998, § 110]
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Lower Macungie
Township Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance of 1998," and
may be referred to as "SALDO."
[Ord. 1998-12, 12/17/1998, § 120; as amended by
Ord. 2011-12, 10/6/2011]
1. No subdivision or land development of any lot, tract or parcel of
land shall be made, and no street, sanitary sewer, water main, gas
or electric transmission line, or other improvements in connection
therewith shall be laid out, constructed, opened or dedicated for
public use or travel or for the common use of occupants of buildings
abutting thereon, except in accordance with this chapter.
2. No lot in a proposed subdivision or land development, may be sold,
and no final permit to erect any building upon land in a subdivision
or land development may be issued unless and until a final plan has
been approved and recorded and either the Township has been assured
by means of an improvements agreement acceptable to the Board of Commissioners
that the improvements will subsequently be installed or the required
improvements in connection therewith have been constructed.
3. This chapter shall apply to all subdivisions and land developments excepting subdivisions which have received preliminary plan approval from the Board of Commissioners between the effective date of this chapter and a date five years prior to the effective date of this chapter. Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsections
1 and
2, the excepted subdivisions shall comply with the requirements of this chapter in effect at the date of the preliminary plan approval for a five-year period commencing at the date of the preliminary plan approval. After the expiration of the five-year period, the provisions of this chapter shall be applicable to said subdivision or land development.