This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Royersford
Borough Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance of 1985."
This chapter has been enacted in conformance with the provisions
of Act 247 of 1968, the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code,
as amended.
This chapter contains regulations which include but are not
limited to the following:
A. Provisions for the submittal and processing of plats for subdivisions
and land development, and specifications for such plats, including
provisions for tentative sketch, preliminary, and final plan processing
and approvals, and for processing of final approval by stages or sections
of development.
B. Provisions governing the standards by which streets shall be graded
and improved, walkways, curbs, gutters, streetlights, fire hydrants,
water, sewage, storm drainage facilities, and other improvements which
shall be installed or guaranteed as conditions precedent to formal
approval of plats.
The following are the purposes of this chapter:
A. To ensure that new development and/or redevelopment within the Borough
will be orderly, efficient, integrated, and harmonious.
B. To ensure that the layout and arrangement of subdivisions or land
developments shall conform to the Royersford Borough Comprehensive
Plan and to any regulations, maps, studies, and reports adopted in
furtherance thereof.
C. To ensure that streets in and bordering a subdivision or land development
shall be coordinated and be of such widths and grades and in such
locations as deemed necessary to accommodate prospective traffic and
parking and to facilitate fire protection.
D. To require adequate, appropriately located easements or rights-of-way
for utilities and storm drainage facilities.
E. To ensure any lands offered for dedication or otherwise reserved
for use as public or common grounds shall be of suitable size, configuration,
and topographical character for their designated uses.
F. To ensure conformance of subdivision and land development proposals
with the availability of municipal services and public facilities
and the coordination of intermunicipal programs.
G. To preserve lands subject to inundation or flooding from subdivision
or land development which would endanger life or property or further
aggravate or increase the existing flooding or inundation conditions.
H. To encourage and promote flexibility, economy, and ingenuity in the
layout and design of subdivisions and land development, including
provisions authorizing the Borough to modify the requirements of this
chapter in accordance with concepts and practices consistent with
the modern and evolving, generally accepted principles of site planning
and land development.
I. To provide equitable handling of all subdivision and land development
proposals by providing uniform procedures and standards.
J. To encourage subdivision and land development in accordance with
principles and practices which conserve energy, both during and after
construction, and which encourage the use of alternative energy sources
by the layout of the proposal and the siting of buildings.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
The provisions of this chapter shall be the minimum requirements
to meet the above-stated purposes. Where the provisions of this chapter
impose greater restrictions than those of any other statute, ordinance,
or regulations, then the provisions of this chapter shall prevail.
Where the provisions of any other statute, ordinance or regulations
impose greater restrictions than those of this chapter, the provisions
of such statute, ordinance or regulations shall take precedence. A
subdivision or land development by the Borough of Royersford shall
be exempt from the provisions of this chapter.