This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Scott Township
Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance."
This chapter is adopted for the following purposes:
A.
To protect and provide for the public health, safety and general
welfare of the Township.
B.
To guide the future growth and development of the Township in accordance
with the Comprehensive Plan of the Township of Scott.
C.
To provide for adequate light, air and privacy; to secure safety
from fire, flood and other danger; and to prevent overcrowding of
the land and undue congestion of population.
D.
To protect the character and social and economic stability of the
Township and to encourage the orderly and beneficial development of
the Township.
E.
To protect and conserve the value of land throughout the Township
and the value of buildings and improvements upon the land and to minimize
the conflicts among the uses of land and buildings.
F.
To guide public and private policy and action in order to provide
adequate and efficient transportation, water supply, sewerage, schools,
parks, playgrounds, recreation and other public requirements and facilities.
G.
To provide the most beneficial relationship between the uses of land
and buildings and the circulation of traffic within the Township,
having particular regard to the avoidance of congestion in the streets
and highways, and the pedestrian traffic movements appropriate to
the various uses of land and buildings; and to provide for the proper
location and width of streets and building lines.
H.
To establish reasonable standards of design and procedures for subdivision
and resubdivision in order to further the orderly layout and use of
land and to ensure proper legal descriptions and monumenting of subdivided
land.
I.
To ensure that public facilities are available and will have sufficient
capacity to serve the proposed subdivision.
J.
To prevent the pollution of air, streams and ponds; to assure the
adequacy of drainage facilities; to safeguard the water table; and
to encourage the wise use and management of natural resources in order
to preserve the community and value of the land.
K.
To preserve the natural beauty and topography of the Township and
to ensure appropriate development with regard to these natural features.
L.
To provide for open spaces through efficient design and layout of
the land.
M.
To ensure that documents prepared as part of a landownership transfer
fully and accurately describe the parcel of land being subdivided
and the new parcels thus created.
In interpreting and applying the provisions of this chapter,
all requirements shall be held to be the minimum requirements for
promoting the above-stated purposes. Where the provisions of this
chapter impose greater restrictions than those of other statutes,
ordinances or regulations, the more restrictive regulations shall
be controlling.
A.
Authority of the Board of Supervisors. The Board of Supervisors of
the Township of Scott is vested by law with the control of the subdivision
of land and land development within the Township by Act 247 of 1968,
the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, as amended by Act 170
of 1988.[1] The Board of Supervisors shall retain the authority to
approve all subdivision plans and land development plans as required
herein.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 10101 et seq.
B.
Authority of the Township Planning Commission. The Planning Commission
is hereby designated by the Board of Supervisors as an agency which
shall review and make recommendations on preliminary and final subdivision
and land development plans, as required herein, prior to action by
the Board of Supervisors and, when requested by the Board of Supervisors,
shall make such other recommendations and perform such other duties
as permitted under the Act.
A.
No subdivision of any lot, tract or parcel of land located in Scott
Township shall be effected and no street, sanitary sewer, storm sewer,
water main or other facilities in connection therewith shall be laid
out, constructed, opened or dedicated for public use of travel or
for the common use of occupants of buildings thereon unless and until
a final subdivision plan has been approved by the governing body in
the manner prescribed herein and recorded, nor otherwise used except
in strict accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
B.
No lot in a subdivision may be sold, no permit to erect, alter or
repair any building upon land in a subdivision may be issued and no
building may be erected in a subdivision unless and until a final
subdivision plan has been approved by the governing body and recorded
and until construction of the improvements required in connection
therewith has been guaranteed in the manner prescribed herein.