Lot line adjustment plans shall be initiated and submitted for review in the form of a final plan as specified in §
196-402 and shall be otherwise reviewed in accordance with the procedures and standards of §
196-305.
When an application for approval of a plan, whether preliminary
or final, has been approved without conditions or approved by the
applicant's acceptance of conditions, no subsequent change or
amendment in the zoning, subdivision or other governing ordinance
or plan shall be applied to adversely affect the right of the applicant
to commence and to complete any aspect of the approved development
in accordance with the terms of such approval within five years of
such approval. The five-year period shall be counted from the date
of the preliminary plan approval. Failure to substantially complete
the required improvements within the aforesaid five-year period, or
within any extension thereof, as may be granted by the Board of Supervisors
or as may be permitted by § 508(4) (v and vi) of the Pennsylvania
Municipalities Planning Code, 53 P.S. § 10508(4)(v and vi),
for staged developments, shall make the application subject to any
and all changes in zoning, subdivision, and any other governing ordinance
enacted by the Township subsequent to the date of the initial preliminary
plan approval.