This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Borough
of East Greenville Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance."
This chapter has been enacted in conformance with the following
statutes:
This chapter contains regulations which include, but are not
limited to, the following:
A.
Provisions for the filing, processing, review, and approval of all
subdivision and land development plans;
B.
Design standards and guidelines for the overall layout, configuration,
and placement of lots, roads, open space, parks, public facilities
and other physical improvements on property to promote orderly development
compatible with the Upper Perkiomen Valley Regional Comprehensive
Plan;
C.
Engineering and technical standards, including appropriate financial
guarantees, governing the manner by which various improvements including
streets, bridges, common facilities, water supply and sewage facilities
infrastructure, stormwater management facilities, walkways, lighting,
and other improvements are properly constructed.
The following are the purposes of this chapter:
A.
To accomplish the coordinated development of the Borough of East
Greenville, thereby ensuring the overall health, safety, and general
welfare of the residents of the Borough;
B.
To ensure that development within the Borough of East Greenville
is orderly, efficient, integrated, and in harmony with the built and
natural environment;
C.
To guide the future growth and development of the Borough of East
Greenville in conformance to the Upper Perkiomen Valley Comprehensive
Plan and to other relevant regulations, maps, studies, and reports
adopted in furtherance thereof;
D.
To ensure that streets in and bordering a subdivision or land development
shall be coordinated and be of such design and in such locations as
deemed necessary to accommodate prospective traffic and parking and
to facilitate fire protection;
E.
To require adequate, appropriately located easements or rights-of-way
for utilities and storm drainage facilities;
F.
To provide adequate open space lands and recreational facilities
for current and future residents;
G.
To preserve existing trees, vegetation, and other natural features;
and where land development requires the removal of trees and vegetation,
to encourage and require replacements, so that present and future
generations may enjoy the benefits of an attractive, healthy and green
environment;
H.
To preserve the historic and cultural resources of the Borough and
to protect the character of the community;
I.
To ensure that new development enhances and successfully integrates
into the existing historic character and streetscape of the community;
J.
To ensure that new development enhances the streetscape and creates
an environment that is welcoming to pedestrians;
K.
To ensure conformance of subdivision and land development proposals
with the availability of municipal services and public facilities
and the coordination of inter-municipal programs;
L.
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;
M.
To encourage and promote flexibility, economy and ingenuity in the
layout and design of subdivisions and land developments, 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; and
N.
To provide equitable and expeditious handling of all subdivision
and land development proposals by providing uniform procedures and
standards.
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.
Borough Council shall, with the recommendation of the Planning Commission, review and act upon as appropriate all subdivision and land development plans as defined below and in § 85-8 of this chapter which are located entirely or in part of the Borough of East Greenville.
A.
Subdivision of a lot or construction, opening or dedication of a
street. No subdivision or land development of any lot, tract or parcel
of land shall be made and no street, alley, sanitary sewer, storm
drain, water main, gas, oil or electric line or other improvements
in connection therewith shall be laid out, constructed or dedicated
for public use or travel or for the common use of occupants of a building
abutting thereon, except in strict accordance with this chapter.
B.
Sale of lots, issuance of building permits or erection of buildings.
No lot in a subdivision or land development may be sold and no permit
to erect, alter or repair any building upon land in a subdivision
or land development will be issued, unless and until a subdivision
and/or land development plan has been approved and, where required,
recorded and until the required improvements in connection therewith
have either been constructed or guaranteed for construction in the
form of a bond, escrow or other means approved by Borough Council
under the advice of the Borough Engineer and Solicitor, in accordance
with the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
C.
Condominiums. No provision of this chapter shall be construed to
prohibit condominium ownership as permitted by the applicable enabling
legislation of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
