There is hereby adopted by the Council of Vandergrift Borough, for the purpose of creating conditions favorable to the health, safety, morals and general welfare of the citizens of Vandergrift Borough through the provisions of regulations that will ensure the harmonious development of the community, the whole of that certain subdivision regulations prepared by Candeub, Cabot & Associates, Planning Consultants, for Vandergrift Borough, dated July 1964, save and except such portions as are hereafter deleted, modified or amended, of which not less than three copies have been and now are filed in the office of the Secretary of Vandergrift Borough, and the same are hereby adopted and incorporated as fully as if set out at length herein, and from the date on which this chapter shall take effect, the provisions thereof shall be controlling in the subdivision of all land within the corporate limits of Vandergrift Borough.
The Vandergrift Planning Commission is hereby designated as the official agency to administer the land subdivision regulations.
The subdivision regulations may be revised, modified or amended as prescribed by local and state laws.
The Vandergrift Planning Commission shall keep a record of its findings, decisions and recommendations relative to all subdivision plans filed with it for review.
In the interpretation and the application of the provisions of the land subdivision regulations, they shall be held to be the minimum requirements for the promotion of the health, safety, morals and general welfare. In general the provisions contained therein shall apply to residential subdivisions. Standards applying to commercial and industrial subdivisions shall be subject to individual review and determination in each case.
[Amended 5-6-1970 by Ord. No. 10-1970]
Any person, partnership or corporation who or which, being the owner or agent of the owner of any lot, tract or parcel of land, shall lay out, construct, open or dedicate any street, sanitary sewer, storm sewer, water main or other improvements for public use, travel or other purposes or for the common use of occupants of buildings abutting thereon, or who sells, transfers or agrees or enters into an agreement to sell any land in a subdivision or land development, whether by reference to or by other use of a plat of such subdivision or land development, or otherwise, or erect any building thereon, unless and until a final plat has been prepared in full compliance with the provisions of this chapter and of the regulations adopted hereunder and has been recorded as provided herein, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, such person or the members of such partnership or the officers of such corporation or the agent of any of them responsible for such violation shall pay a fine not exceeding $100 per lot or parcel or per dwelling within each lot or parcel.