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Township of West Nantmeal, PA
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2021-06-14
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 215 Zoning
Part I: Administrative Legislation
Ch 1
General Provisions
Ch 5
Authorities, Municipal
Ch 33
Salaries and Compensation
Part II: General Legislation
Ch 60
Buildings, Numbering of
Ch 67
Cable Television
Ch 75
Construction Codes, Uniform
Ch 88
Fireworks
Ch 103
Hazardous Materials
Ch 111
Impact Fees
Ch 124
Municipal Claims and Liens
Ch 128
Noise
Ch 132
Parks and Recreation Areas
Ch 140
Property Maintenance and Certification of Occupancy
Ch 149
Sewers and Sewage Disposal Systems
Ch 158
Stormwater Management and Erosion and Sediment Control
Ch 164
Streets and Sidewalks
Ch 170
Subdivision and Land Development
Ch 177
Taxation
Ch 194
Vehicles and Traffic
Ch 202
Weeds
Ch 215
Zoning
Ch 215 Art I
General Provisions
§ 215-1
Preamble.
§ 215-2
Short title.
§ 215-3
Purpose.
§ 215-4
Community development objectives.
§ 215-5
Application and interpretation.
Ch 215 Art II
Definitions
§ 215-6
General interpretation.
§ 215-7
Specific terms.
Ch 215 Art III
Zoning Map and Zoning Districts
§ 215-8
Establishment of Zoning Districts and Overlay Districts.
§ 215-9
Official Zoning Map.
§ 215-10
Interpretation of district boundaries.
§ 215-11
Application of district boundaries.
Ch 215 Art IV
Zoning District Regulations
§ 215-12
Statement of intent.
§ 215-13
Agricultural Preservation (R-1) Zoning District.
§ 215-14
Rural Residential (R-2) Zoning District.
§ 215-15
Suburban Residential (R-3) Zoning District.
§ 215-16
Village Commercial (C-1) Zoning District.
§ 215-17
Limited Industrial (I-1) Zoning District.
Ch 215 Art V
Conservation Overlay Districts
§ 215-18
Statement of intent.
§ 215-19
Flood Hazard Overlay District.
§ 215-20
Wetlands and Hydric Soil Overlay District.
§ 215-21
Steep Slope Overlay District.
§ 215-22
Woodland Protection and Management Overlay District.
§ 215-23
Historical Preservation Overlay District.
Ch 215 Art VI
Residential Land Use and Development Requirements
§ 215-24
Statement of intent.
§ 215-25
Single-family detached residential dwellings.
§ 215-26
Single-family semidetached residential dwellings.
§ 215-27
Townhouse uses and developments.
§ 215-28
Apartment uses and developments.
§ 215-29
Residential lot averaging design for R-1 Zoning District.
§ 215-30
Residential lot averaging with less than 20 gross acres.
§ 215-31
Lot averaging with 20 gross acres to 30 gross acres.
§ 215-32
Lot averaging with 30 gross acres or more.
§ 215-33
General subdivision criteria for R-1 Zoning District.
§ 215-34
Residential cluster design for R-2 Zoning District.
§ 215-35
Residential cluster design for R-3 Zoning District.
§ 215-36
Group homes.
§ 215-37
Assisted living care facilities, convalescent homes and nursing homes.
§ 215-38
Manufactured homes and manufactured home parks.
§ 215-39
Bed-and-breakfast establishments.
§ 215-40
Boardinghouse or rooming house.
§ 215-41
Accessory apartments for relatives.
§ 215-42
Home occupation regulations.
§ 215-43
Category 1 home occupation.
§ 215-44
Category 2 home occupation.
§ 215-45
Mixed use residential and commercial uses.
Ch 215 Art VII
Nonresidential Land Use and Development Requirements
§ 215-46
Statement of intent.
§ 215-47
Adult business and entertainment uses.
§ 215-48
Agricultural uses.
§ 215-49
General agricultural uses.
§ 215-50
Intensive agricultural uses.
§ 215-51
Farm-related business uses.
§ 215-52
Farm-support business uses.
§ 215-53
Roadside stands.
§ 215-54
Airports, heliports and helistops.
§ 215-55
Automobile sales and automobile service stations.
§ 215-56
Automobile sales.
§ 215-57
Automobile service stations.
§ 215-58
Car washing facilities.
§ 215-59
Banks and financial institutions.
§ 215-60
Business and professional offices.
§ 215-61
Business, professional office and industrial parks.
§ 215-62
Club, lodge or social quarters.
§ 215-63
Commercial campgrounds.
§ 215-64
Commercial communication towers and facilities.
§ 215-65
Commercial composting, mulch and mushroom production uses.
§ 215-66
Commercial composting uses.
§ 215-67
Commercial mushroom production uses.
§ 215-68
Commercial greenhouses and tree farms.
§ 215-69
Commercial water resource use.
§ 215-70
Community center.
§ 215-71
Construction services.
§ 215-72
Convenience stores and mini-markets.
§ 215-73
Day-care facilities and uses.
§ 215-74
Family child day-care home.
§ 215-75
Group child day-care home.
§ 215-76
Child day-care center.
§ 215-77
Adult care facilities.
§ 215-78
Educational uses.
§ 215-79
Emergency services operation.
§ 215-80
Fabrication and finishing uses.
§ 215-81
Food processing facility.
§ 215-82
Funeral home.
§ 215-83
Golf courses.
§ 215-84
Home centers.
§ 215-85
Horseback riding school and stables.
§ 215-86
Horseback riding schools.
§ 215-87
Horseback riding stables.
§ 215-88
Hospitals, medical centers, ambulatory care centers and health care clinics.
§ 215-89
Hotel and motel uses.
§ 215-90
Incarceration facilities.
§ 215-91
Junkyards, salvage yards and impoundment facilities.
§ 215-92
Kennels and animal shelters.
§ 215-93
Laundromats and dry cleaners.
§ 215-94
Manufacturing uses.
§ 215-95
Medical, dental, vision, counseling and health care services.
§ 215-96
Mini malls.
§ 215-97
Municipal and governmental uses.
§ 215-98
Municipal uses.
§ 215-99
Governmental uses.
§ 215-100
Nurseries and landscaping centers.
§ 215-101
Personal service establishment.
§ 215-102
Places of worship, religious uses and cemeteries.
§ 215-103
Printing or publishing facilities.
§ 215-104
Quarrying and mining operations.
§ 215-105
Recreational uses.
§ 215-106
Noncommercial recreational uses.
§ 215-107
Commercial recreational uses.
§ 215-108
Recycling facilities.
§ 215-109
Research facilities.
§ 215-110
Restaurants.
§ 215-111
Retail uses.
§ 215-112
Self-storage units and portable storage facilities.
§ 215-113
Solid waste disposal and reduction facilities.
§ 215-114
Truck service and maintenance establishments.
§ 215-115
Utilities.
§ 215-116
Community utilities.
§ 215-117
Private utilities.
§ 215-118
Public utilities.
§ 215-119
Veterinary hospitals.
§ 215-120
Warehouse and freight terminals.
§ 215-121
Wholesale and distribution uses.
§ 215-122
Undefined or other land uses.
§ 215-123
Farm-related school.
Ch 215 Art VIII
Supplemental Regulations
§ 215-124
Statement of intent.
§ 215-125
Access to lots, buildings, structures and uses.
§ 215-126
Accessory uses and structures.
§ 215-127
Residential accessory uses and structures.
§ 215-128
Nonresidential accessory uses and structures.
§ 215-129
Residential conversions.
§ 215-130
Height exceptions.
§ 215-131
Front yard and lot width exceptions.
§ 215-132
Flag lots or key hole lots.
§ 215-133
Visibility at street intersections.
§ 215-134
Corner lot restrictions and requirements.
§ 215-135
Fences, walls and hedges.
§ 215-136
Projections into yards.
§ 215-137
Nonresidential performance standards and controls.
§ 215-138
Landscaping.
§ 215-139
Temporary structures and uses.
§ 215-140
Commercial drive-through establishments.
§ 215-141
Commercial outdoor storage and sales.
§ 215-142
Exterior lighting.
§ 215-143
Swimming pools and therapeutic spas.
§ 215-144
Alternative and emerging energy facilities.
§ 215-145
Blasting and detonation requirements.
§ 215-146
Domestic livestock use.
§ 215-147
Exotic animals.
§ 215-148
Prohibited uses.
Ch 215 Art IX
Off-Street Loading and Parking
§ 215-149
Statement of intent.
§ 215-150
General provisions for off-street loading and off-street parking.
§ 215-151
Off-street loading areas.
§ 215-152
Off-street parking areas.
§ 215-153
Driveways, private roads, fire lanes and fire apparatus access roads.
Ch 215 Art X
Signs
§ 215-154
Statement of intent.
§ 215-155
General standards and requirements for all signs.
§ 215-156
Summarization chart for categorical sign requirements.
§ 215-157
Sign requirements for residential uses.
§ 215-158
Sign requirements for nonresidential uses.
§ 215-159
Off-premises advertising signs or billboards.
§ 215-160
Special use signs, temporary signs and promotional signs.
§ 215-161
Nonconforming signs and abandoned signs.
§ 215-162
Prohibited signs.
Ch 215 Art XI
Nonconformities
§ 215-163
Statement of intent.
§ 215-164
Continuation.
§ 215-165
Discontinuance.
§ 215-166
Nonconforming use of land.
§ 215-167
Expansion of nonconforming use.
§ 215-168
Reconstruction.
§ 215-169
Change of use.
§ 215-170
Nonconforming lots of record.
§ 215-171
Registration of nonconformities.
Ch 215 Art XII
Administration and Enforcement
§ 215-172
Statement of intent.
§ 215-173
Zoning permits, certificates of use and occupancy, and other permits.
§ 215-174
Zoning Officer.
§ 215-175
Zoning Hearing Board.
§ 215-176
Public hearings and procedures.
§ 215-177
Zoning variances.
§ 215-178
Special exceptions.
§ 215-179
Conditional uses.
§ 215-180
Amendments.
§ 215-181
Curative amendments.
§ 215-182
Appeals.
§ 215-183
Filing fees and costs.
§ 215-184
Violations, penalties and remedies.
Ch 215 Art XIII
Floodplain Regulations
§ 215-185
Statutory authority, intent and liability.
§ 215-186
Administration.
§ 215-187
Identification of floodplain areas.
§ 215-188
Technical provisions.
§ 215-189
Prohibited uses.
§ 215-190
Existing structures in identified floodplain area.
§ 215-191
Variances.
§ 215-192
Definitions.
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Chapter 215
Zoning
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of West Nantmeal Township
8-17-2010
by
Ord. No. 111
. Amendments noted where applicable.]
ATTACHMENTS
Attachment 1 - R-1 Zoning District: Utility and Dimensional Requirements
Attachment 2 - R-2 Zoning District: Utility and Dimensional Requirements
Attachment 3 - R-3 Zoning District: Utility and Dimensional Requirements
Attachment 4 - C-1 Zoning District: Utility and Dimensional Requirements
Attachment 5 - I-1 Zoning District: Utility and Dimensional Requirements
Attachment 6 - Summary of Categorical Sign Requirements
Attachment 7 - Official Zoning Map
Article I
General Provisions
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§ 215-1
Preamble.
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§ 215-2
Short title.
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§ 215-3
Purpose.
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§ 215-4
Community development objectives.
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§ 215-5
Application and interpretation.
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Article II
Definitions
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§ 215-6
General interpretation.
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§ 215-7
Specific terms.
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Article III
Zoning Map and Zoning Districts
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§ 215-8
Establishment of Zoning Districts and Overlay Districts.
chevron_right
§ 215-9
Official Zoning Map.
chevron_right
§ 215-10
Interpretation of district boundaries.
chevron_right
§ 215-11
Application of district boundaries.
chevron_right
Article IV
Zoning District Regulations
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§ 215-12
Statement of intent.
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§ 215-13
Agricultural Preservation (R-1) Zoning District.
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§ 215-14
Rural Residential (R-2) Zoning District.
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§ 215-15
Suburban Residential (R-3) Zoning District.
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§ 215-16
Village Commercial (C-1) Zoning District.
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§ 215-17
Limited Industrial (I-1) Zoning District.
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Article V
Conservation Overlay Districts
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§ 215-18
Statement of intent.
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§ 215-19
Flood Hazard Overlay District.
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§ 215-20
Wetlands and Hydric Soil Overlay District.
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§ 215-21
Steep Slope Overlay District.
chevron_right
§ 215-22
Woodland Protection and Management Overlay District.
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§ 215-23
Historical Preservation Overlay District.
chevron_right
Article VI
Residential Land Use and Development Requirements
chevron_right
§ 215-24
Statement of intent.
chevron_right
§ 215-25
Single-family detached residential dwellings.
chevron_right
§ 215-26
Single-family semidetached residential dwellings.
chevron_right
§ 215-27
Townhouse uses and developments.
chevron_right
§ 215-28
Apartment uses and developments.
chevron_right
§ 215-29
Residential lot averaging design for R-1 Zoning District.
chevron_right
§ 215-30
Residential lot averaging with less than 20 gross acres.
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§ 215-31
Lot averaging with 20 gross acres to 30 gross acres.
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§ 215-32
Lot averaging with 30 gross acres or more.
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§ 215-33
General subdivision criteria for R-1 Zoning District.
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§ 215-34
Residential cluster design for R-2 Zoning District.
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§ 215-35
Residential cluster design for R-3 Zoning District.
chevron_right
§ 215-36
Group homes.
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§ 215-37
Assisted living care facilities, convalescent homes and nursing homes.
chevron_right
§ 215-38
Manufactured homes and manufactured home parks.
chevron_right
§ 215-39
Bed-and-breakfast establishments.
chevron_right
§ 215-40
Boardinghouse or rooming house.
chevron_right
§ 215-41
Accessory apartments for relatives.
chevron_right
§ 215-42
Home occupation regulations.
chevron_right
§ 215-43
Category 1 home occupation.
chevron_right
§ 215-44
Category 2 home occupation.
chevron_right
§ 215-45
Mixed use residential and commercial uses.
chevron_right
Article VII
Nonresidential Land Use and Development Requirements
chevron_right
§ 215-46
Statement of intent.
chevron_right
§ 215-47
Adult business and entertainment uses.
chevron_right
§ 215-48
Agricultural uses.
chevron_right
§ 215-49
General agricultural uses.
chevron_right
§ 215-50
Intensive agricultural uses.
chevron_right
§ 215-51
Farm-related business uses.
chevron_right
§ 215-52
Farm-support business uses.
chevron_right
§ 215-53
Roadside stands.
chevron_right
§ 215-54
Airports, heliports and helistops.
chevron_right
§ 215-55
Automobile sales and automobile service stations.
chevron_right
§ 215-56
Automobile sales.
chevron_right
§ 215-57
Automobile service stations.
chevron_right
§ 215-58
Car washing facilities.
chevron_right
§ 215-59
Banks and financial institutions.
chevron_right
§ 215-60
Business and professional offices.
chevron_right
§ 215-61
Business, professional office and industrial parks.
chevron_right
§ 215-62
Club, lodge or social quarters.
chevron_right
§ 215-63
Commercial campgrounds.
chevron_right
§ 215-64
Commercial communication towers and facilities.
chevron_right
§ 215-65
Commercial composting, mulch and mushroom production uses.
chevron_right
§ 215-66
Commercial composting uses.
chevron_right
§ 215-67
Commercial mushroom production uses.
chevron_right
§ 215-68
Commercial greenhouses and tree farms.
chevron_right
§ 215-69
Commercial water resource use.
chevron_right
§ 215-70
Community center.
chevron_right
§ 215-71
Construction services.
chevron_right
§ 215-72
Convenience stores and mini-markets.
chevron_right
§ 215-73
Day-care facilities and uses.
chevron_right
§ 215-74
Family child day-care home.
chevron_right
§ 215-75
Group child day-care home.
chevron_right
§ 215-76
Child day-care center.
chevron_right
§ 215-77
Adult care facilities.
chevron_right
§ 215-78
Educational uses.
chevron_right
§ 215-79
Emergency services operation.
chevron_right
§ 215-80
Fabrication and finishing uses.
chevron_right
§ 215-81
Food processing facility.
chevron_right
§ 215-82
Funeral home.
chevron_right
§ 215-83
Golf courses.
chevron_right
§ 215-84
Home centers.
chevron_right
§ 215-85
Horseback riding school and stables.
chevron_right
§ 215-86
Horseback riding schools.
chevron_right
§ 215-87
Horseback riding stables.
chevron_right
§ 215-88
Hospitals, medical centers, ambulatory care centers and health care clinics.
chevron_right
§ 215-89
Hotel and motel uses.
chevron_right
§ 215-90
Incarceration facilities.
chevron_right
§ 215-91
Junkyards, salvage yards and impoundment facilities.
chevron_right
§ 215-92
Kennels and animal shelters.
chevron_right
§ 215-93
Laundromats and dry cleaners.
chevron_right
§ 215-94
Manufacturing uses.
chevron_right
§ 215-95
Medical, dental, vision, counseling and health care services.
chevron_right
§ 215-96
Mini malls.
chevron_right
§ 215-97
Municipal and governmental uses.
chevron_right
§ 215-98
Municipal uses.
chevron_right
§ 215-99
Governmental uses.
chevron_right
§ 215-100
Nurseries and landscaping centers.
chevron_right
§ 215-101
Personal service establishment.
chevron_right
§ 215-102
Places of worship, religious uses and cemeteries.
chevron_right
§ 215-103
Printing or publishing facilities.
chevron_right
§ 215-104
Quarrying and mining operations.
chevron_right
§ 215-105
Recreational uses.
chevron_right
§ 215-106
Noncommercial recreational uses.
chevron_right
§ 215-107
Commercial recreational uses.
chevron_right
§ 215-108
Recycling facilities.
chevron_right
§ 215-109
Research facilities.
chevron_right
§ 215-110
Restaurants.
chevron_right
§ 215-111
Retail uses.
chevron_right
§ 215-112
Self-storage units and portable storage facilities.
chevron_right
§ 215-113
Solid waste disposal and reduction facilities.
chevron_right
§ 215-114
Truck service and maintenance establishments.
chevron_right
§ 215-115
Utilities.
chevron_right
§ 215-116
Community utilities.
chevron_right
§ 215-117
Private utilities.
chevron_right
§ 215-118
Public utilities.
chevron_right
§ 215-119
Veterinary hospitals.
chevron_right
§ 215-120
Warehouse and freight terminals.
chevron_right
§ 215-121
Wholesale and distribution uses.
chevron_right
§ 215-122
Undefined or other land uses.
chevron_right
§ 215-123
Farm-related school.
chevron_right
Article VIII
Supplemental Regulations
chevron_right
§ 215-124
Statement of intent.
chevron_right
§ 215-125
Access to lots, buildings, structures and uses.
chevron_right
§ 215-126
Accessory uses and structures.
chevron_right
§ 215-127
Residential accessory uses and structures.
chevron_right
§ 215-128
Nonresidential accessory uses and structures.
chevron_right
§ 215-129
Residential conversions.
chevron_right
§ 215-130
Height exceptions.
chevron_right
§ 215-131
Front yard and lot width exceptions.
chevron_right
§ 215-132
Flag lots or key hole lots.
chevron_right
§ 215-133
Visibility at street intersections.
chevron_right
§ 215-134
Corner lot restrictions and requirements.
chevron_right
§ 215-135
Fences, walls and hedges.
chevron_right
§ 215-136
Projections into yards.
chevron_right
§ 215-137
Nonresidential performance standards and controls.
chevron_right
§ 215-138
Landscaping.
chevron_right
§ 215-139
Temporary structures and uses.
chevron_right
§ 215-140
Commercial drive-through establishments.
chevron_right
§ 215-141
Commercial outdoor storage and sales.
chevron_right
§ 215-142
Exterior lighting.
chevron_right
§ 215-143
Swimming pools and therapeutic spas.
chevron_right
§ 215-144
Alternative and emerging energy facilities.
chevron_right
§ 215-145
Blasting and detonation requirements.
chevron_right
§ 215-146
Domestic livestock use.
chevron_right
§ 215-147
Exotic animals.
chevron_right
§ 215-148
Prohibited uses.
chevron_right
Article IX
Off-Street Loading and Parking
chevron_right
§ 215-149
Statement of intent.
chevron_right
§ 215-150
General provisions for off-street loading and off-street parking.
chevron_right
§ 215-151
Off-street loading areas.
chevron_right
§ 215-152
Off-street parking areas.
chevron_right
§ 215-153
Driveways, private roads, fire lanes and fire apparatus access roads.
chevron_right
Article X
Signs
chevron_right
§ 215-154
Statement of intent.
chevron_right
§ 215-155
General standards and requirements for all signs.
chevron_right
§ 215-156
Summarization chart for categorical sign requirements.
chevron_right
§ 215-157
Sign requirements for residential uses.
chevron_right
§ 215-158
Sign requirements for nonresidential uses.
chevron_right
§ 215-159
Off-premises advertising signs or billboards.
chevron_right
§ 215-160
Special use signs, temporary signs and promotional signs.
chevron_right
§ 215-161
Nonconforming signs and abandoned signs.
chevron_right
§ 215-162
Prohibited signs.
chevron_right
Article XI
Nonconformities
chevron_right
§ 215-163
Statement of intent.
chevron_right
§ 215-164
Continuation.
chevron_right
§ 215-165
Discontinuance.
chevron_right
§ 215-166
Nonconforming use of land.
chevron_right
§ 215-167
Expansion of nonconforming use.
chevron_right
§ 215-168
Reconstruction.
chevron_right
§ 215-169
Change of use.
chevron_right
§ 215-170
Nonconforming lots of record.
chevron_right
§ 215-171
Registration of nonconformities.
chevron_right
Article XII
Administration and Enforcement
chevron_right
§ 215-172
Statement of intent.
chevron_right
§ 215-173
Zoning permits, certificates of use and occupancy, and other permits.
chevron_right
§ 215-174
Zoning Officer.
chevron_right
§ 215-175
Zoning Hearing Board.
chevron_right
§ 215-176
Public hearings and procedures.
chevron_right
§ 215-177
Zoning variances.
chevron_right
§ 215-178
Special exceptions.
chevron_right
§ 215-179
Conditional uses.
chevron_right
§ 215-180
Amendments.
chevron_right
§ 215-181
Curative amendments.
chevron_right
§ 215-182
Appeals.
chevron_right
§ 215-183
Filing fees and costs.
chevron_right
§ 215-184
Violations, penalties and remedies.
chevron_right
Article XIII
Floodplain Regulations
chevron_right
§ 215-185
Statutory authority, intent and liability.
chevron_right
§ 215-186
Administration.
chevron_right
§ 215-187
Identification of floodplain areas.
chevron_right
§ 215-188
Technical provisions.
chevron_right
§ 215-189
Prohibited uses.
chevron_right
§ 215-190
Existing structures in identified floodplain area.
chevron_right
§ 215-191
Variances.
chevron_right
§ 215-192
Definitions.
chevron_right