[Adopted by Ord. No. 193-2018, 4/11/2018]
This Part is enacted pursuant to authority granted in the Pennsylvania
Intergovernmental Cooperation Act, Act 177 of 1996 (53 Pa.C.S.A. § 2301
et seq.), as amended, and the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning
Code, Act of July 31, 1968, P.L. 805, No. 247, as reenacted and amended
(53 P.S. § 10101 et seq.).
By enactment hereof, the Board of Supervisors of the Township
of Honey Brook (the "Township") hereby approves entering into the
Intergovernmental Cooperative Implementation Agreement for Honey Brook
Township and Honey Brook Borough (the "Borough") (said agreement referred
to herein as the "agreement"), in substantially the form attached
to this Part, and authorizes and directs the Chairman of the Board
of Supervisors to execute, and the Secretary of the Township to attest,
such agreement.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: The agreement is on file in the Township
offices.
The term of the agreement is undefined, and can be terminated
by either municipality with two years' notice to the other municipality.
1.
The purpose of this Intergovernmental Cooperative Implementation
Agreement is as follows:
A.
To support the goals and action items as described and adopted in
the Honey Brook Township and Borough Multi-Municipal Comprehensive
Plan ("Comprehensive Plan"). These goals and action items are intended
to guide and shape new growth, development, and resource conservation
within the Borough and Township for the twenty-year planning period
and are incorporated here by reference;
B.
To establish a process for the two municipalities to follow in implementing
the Comprehensive Plan through ordinance amendments, review of developments
of regional significance and impact, review of other developments
in close proximity, and Comprehensive Plan amendments; and
C.
To establish a process for the two municipalities when considering
actions that may not be generally consistent with the Comprehensive
Plan.
The Township shall have no direct financial obligations under
the agreement. The only costs incurred by the Township shall be its
contribution of administrative resources necessary to administer the
terms of the agreement and other permitting processes required therein.
Rather, any additional review fees required pursuant to this agreement
or any ordinance enacted hereunder shall be collected by the Township
or the Borough, as appropriate, to cover the other municipality's
review costs.
No collaborative entity with separate organizational structure
is proposed. Each party to the agreement shall act in its own individual
capacity as provided for in the agreement.
No acquisition, management, or disposal of real property or
real estate by the Township is authorized.
No new entity has been created by the agreement, and therefore
no employees are required. The utilization of municipal consultants
to be compensated directly by their respective municipalities is contemplated
in the agreement.
