A.
Under this chapter, the Board of Supervisors shall have the duties
of considering and adopting or rejecting proposed amendments or the
repeal of this chapter, as provided by law, and of establishing a
schedule of fees and charges. Under no circumstances shall the duties
of the Board of Supervisors include hearing and deciding questions
of enforcement that may arise.
B.
The Board
of Supervisors shall have the following duties:
(1)
Appoint the members of the Planning Commission, the Zoning Hearing
Board and the Zoning Officer.
(2)
Receive and consider the recommendations of the Planning Commission
on matters the Commission reviews pursuant to this chapter.
(3)
Advertise and host a public hearing before adopting a zoning
ordinance or any amendment thereto.
(4)
May remove members of the Planning Commission, the Zoning Hearing
Board or the Zoning Officer from their positions upon just cause and
after a formal hearing.
(5)
Establish fees for the issuance of land development, building,
occupancy and sign permits. In accordance with Section 617.3(e) of
the MPC,[1] the Board of Supervisors may also prescribe fees for conditional
use applications, landowner curative amendments, municipal curative
amendments and for hearings before the Zoning Hearing Board.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 10617.3(e).
C.
The Board of Supervisors shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear
and render final adjudications in the following matters:
(1)
All applications pursuant to Section 508 of the MPC, 53 P.S.
§ 10508, for approval of subdivisions or land developments
under Part V of the MPC, 53 P.S. § 10501 et seq.
(2)
Applications for conditional use under the express provisions
of this chapter.
(3)
Applications for curative amendment to this chapter or pursuant
to Sections 609.1 and 916.1(a) of the MPC, 53 P.S. §§ 10609.1
and 10916.1(a).
(4)
All petitions for amendments to land use ordinances, pursuant
to the procedures set forth in Section 609 of the MPC, 53 P.S. § 10609.
(5)
Appeals from the determination of the Zoning Officer or the
Township Engineer in the administration of any land use ordinance
or provisions thereof regarding sedimentation and erosion control
and stormwater management as enabled by the MPC.
(6)
Applications for approvals of planned residential development.
