The Board of Supervisors of West Hempfield Township, pursuant
to the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, Act 247 of 1968,
as amended and reenacted by Act 170 of 1988; hereby enacts and ordains the following Ordinance governing
subdivisions and land developments within the limits of the Township
or West Hempfield, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
This ordinance shall be known and may be cited as the "West
Hempfield Township Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance of 1990."
This ordinance is adopted for the following purposes:
A. To promote and protect the public health, safety, morals and welfare.
B. To promote orderly, efficient, integrated and harmonious development
in the Township.
C. To require sites suitable for building purposes and human habitation
in keeping with the standards of quality existing in the Township
and to alleviate peril from fire, flood, erosion, excessive noise,
smoke or other menace.
D. To coordinate proposed streets and other improvements with existing
or proposed streets, parks or other features of the Comprehensive
Plan and to provide for drainage, water supply, sewage disposal and
other appropriate utility services.
E. To encourage preservation of adequate open spaces for recreation,
light and air and maintenance of the natural amenities characteristic
of the Township and its residential, commercial, agricultural, industrial,
and public areas.
F. To ensure conformance of subdivision and land development plans with
the Comprehensive Plan, Zoning Ordinance and public improvement plans and to ensure coordination
of intergovernmental improvement plans and programs.
G. To secure equitable treatment of all subdivision and land development
plans by providing uniform procedures and standards.
H. To ensure that developments are environmentally sound by requiring
preservation of the natural features of the areas to be developed
to the greatest extent practicable, to maintain the economic well-being
of the Township and to prevent unnecessary or undesirable blight,
runoff and pollution.
I. To secure the protection of water resources and drainage ways.
J. To establish provisions governing the standards by which streets
shall be designed and improved, and walkways, curbs, gutters, streetlights,
fire hydrants, water and sewage facilities and other improvements
shall be installed as a condition precedent to final approval of plans.
No subdivision or land development of any lot, tract or parcel
of land shall be made, and no street, sanitary sewer, storm sewer,
stormwater management facility, water main, or other improvement or
facilities in connection therewith shall be laid out, constructed,
installed, opened or dedicated for public use or travel, or for the
common use of the occupants of buildings abutting thereon, except
in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance.