This chapter shall be known as and may be cited as "The Sinking Spring Borough Zoning Ordinance of 2010."
A.
This chapter is enacted to promote the public health, safety, morals and general welfare of the residents of the Borough of Sinking Spring by encouraging the most appropriate use of land and buildings; preventing the overcrowding of land; avoiding undue congestion of population; providing for adequate light and air; conserving the value of land and buildings; securing safety from fire, panic, flood and other dangers; facilitating the adequate provision of transportation, water, sewerage, school and other public facilities.
B.
This chapter is enacted in accordance with the community development objectives as set forth in the Comprehensive Plan for Spring Township, Sinking Spring, West Lawn, West Reading, and Wyomissing. These community development objectives are:
(1)
Provide for a harmonious variety of land uses within the Borough, including:
(a)
A variety of housing types, including single-family, two-family and multifamily dwellings.
(b)
Neighborhood commercial districts, intended to serve the daily needs of residents in adjoining residential districts, and highway-oriented commercial districts, designed to serve area-wide demand and highway-oriented users as well as nearby residents.
(c)
A general industrial district in which a wide variety of industrial uses may locate as long as certain performance standards are met.
(d)
Areas for community services, which will ensure the availability of community services to all residents of the Borough and which will be located conveniently to the residents of the Borough.
(2)
To encourage the development of land within the Borough.
(3)
To encourage each land use to locate in those areas most suitable for that particular land use.
(4)
To discourage development within the floodplains and areas of steep slope within the Borough.
(5)
To provide for an adequate traffic circulation system for the Borough.
(6)
Preserve the quality of existing residential and commercial areas in the Borough through zoning districting and through regulations for all future development within the Borough.
(7)
Ensure the quality of future development within the Borough through the provision of adequate area, yard, height and use regulations, performance standards, and general regulations in the Borough's Zoning Ordinance in this chapter and the adoption of the Borough's Subdivision Regulations (Chapter 170 of this Code).
(8)
To encourage, near the Borough boundary lines, development which will be compatible with development on adjacent land in bordering municipalities.