The official title of this chapter is the "North East Township Zoning Ordinance."
This chapter shall become effective January 30, 2014, and shall remain in effect until modified or rescinded by the Board of Supervisors.
A. 
This chapter and Zoning Map are intended to promote, protect and facilitate the public health, safety, morals, general welfare, coordinated and practical community development, proper density of population, civil defense, the provisions of adequate light and air, police protection, vehicle parking and loading space, transportation, water, sewerage, schools, public grounds and other public requirements, as well as preventing the overcrowding of land, blight, danger and congestion in travel and transportation, and loss of health, life or property from fire, flood, panic or other dangers. More specifically, these broad purposes are designed to clearly achieve the objectives of the North East Township portion of the North East Area Comprehensive Plan.
B. 
The specific objectives upon which this chapter has been based include the following:
(1) 
To support and encourage order and beauty in the development of North East Township's environment for the convenience and pleasure of present citizens and future residents through sound land development practices and the provision of adequate public utilities and facilities.
(2) 
To encourage future land development to complement a logical, harmonious and efficient pattern of future Township growth.
(3) 
To encourage future residential use to occur in a harmonious arrangement within compact neighborhood units.
(4) 
To preserve strategic properties suitable for industrial development for the establishment of a suitable, attractive and efficient community environment.
(5) 
To guide commercial development in such a way as to minimize adverse influences on adjacent roads or land values, to maintain and protect existing commercial uses, and to encourage new commercial facilities to locate in functionally designed centers with safe and adequate highway access.
(6) 
To protect property values to ensure a suitable, attractive and efficient community environment.
(7) 
To encourage integrated and coherent suburban development.
(8) 
To require developers to incorporate adequate public facilities and open spaces in neighborhood design.
(9) 
To protect prime agricultural lands from overdevelopment and to encourage proper development of other agrarian areas in the Township.
No structure shall be located, erected, constructed, reconstructed, moved, altered, converted or enlarged, nor shall any structure or land be used or be designed to be used, except in full compliance with all the provisions of this chapter and after the lawful issuance of all permits and certificates required by this chapter.
If any provision of this chapter or the application of any provision to particular circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of the chapter or the application of such provisions to other circumstances shall not be affected.
Whenever there is a difference between minimum standards or dimensions or provisions specified herein and those contained in other regulations, resolutions or ordinances of the Township, the most restrictive standards shall govern.
The provisions within this chapter are designed to fulfill the objectives cited in § 350-3. The degree of protection sought by the conditions and requirements of this chapter for the present and future residents and landowners in North East Township is considered reasonable for regulatory purposes in the various zoning districts. This chapter does not imply that compliance with the minimum requirements or that land uses permitted within such districts will be free from inconvenience, conflicts, danger or damages. Therefore, this chapter shall not create liability on the part of individual members of the Board of Supervisors or any officer, appointee or employee of North East Township for any damages that may result from reliance on this chapter or any administrative decision lawfully made thereunder.