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.