Section 601 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code
(Act of 1968, P.L. 805, No. 247, as reenacted and amended) provides that the Mount Oliver Borough Council may enact
and amend a zoning ordinance to implement the Mount Oliver Comprehensive
Plan and to accomplish any of the purposes of the Municipalities Planning
Code.
The zoning regulations and districts set forth in this chapter
are made in accordance with the Borough Comprehensive Plan, adopted
February 20, 2017, and the community development objectives of that
plan are hereby incorporated by reference. In addition, to protect
the general welfare of the Borough, this chapter is intended to achieve,
among others, the following purposes:
1. To lessen congestion in the streets, to secure safety from fire and
other dangers, to provide adequate light and air, to prevent the overcrowding
of the land, avoid undue concentrations of population, to facilitate
adequate provisions for transportation, water, sewerage, schools,
parks and other public requirements, as well as the conservation of
the value of land and buildings. These were made with reasonable consideration,
among other things, of the existing character of the various areas,
their respective suitability for particular land uses and with a view
to conserving the value of buildings and encouraging the most appropriate
use of land throughout the Borough of Mount Oliver.
2. This chapter is adopted to promote an orderly plan of development
according to the Borough's adopted Comprehensive Plan which shall
be considered as legislative history and shall be utilized when necessary
to establish policy in the interpretation of this chapter.
In the interpretation and application, the provisions of this
chapter shall be considered minimum requirements adopted for the promotion
of the health, safety and general welfare of the public. In interpreting
the language of this chapter to determine the extent of the restriction
upon the use of the property, the language shall be interpreted, where
doubt exists as to the intended meaning of the language written and
enacted by the Borough Council, in favor of the property owner and
against any implied extension of the restriction.
The regulations of this chapter shall apply to properties within
the Borough of Mount Oliver, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania and to
all zoning districts, lots, structures, land developments, and subdivisions
in the Borough.
No land shall be used or occupied, and no structures shall be
designed, erected, altered, used, or occupied except in conformity
with this chapter and in compliance with all standards, and upon performance
of all conditions attached to any use approval, variance, appeal,
rezoning, subdivision and land development approval, planned residential
approval, or site plan approved pursuant to all land use regulations
of Mount Oliver Borough.