Title. This chapter shall be known as the "Borough of Glen Osborne Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance." For purposes of the Code of Glen Osborne Borough, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, this chapter shall be known as the "Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance" and/or the "SALDO."
This chapter is adopted for the following purposes:
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To provide for the harmonious, orderly, and efficient development of the Borough.
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To ensure sites suitable for building purposes and human habitation.
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To promote the health, safety, and general welfare of the Borough residents.
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To coordinate the proposed development with existing development within the Borough.
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To provide for the equitable processing of subdivision and land development plans by establishing uniform procedures and standards.
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To promote adequate open spaces, proper traffic flows, recreation, light and air, and for proper distribution of population.
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To promote the sound layout and design for subdivisions and land developments.
Enabling Authority/Adoption. The Borough, in accordance with the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code (MPC), Act 247 of 1968, as reenacted and amended by Act 170 of 1988, and as subsequently amended, 53 P.S. 10101 et seq. (MPC), enacts the following chapter to regulate the subdivision and development of land in the Borough of Glen Osborne, Allegheny County.
Hereafter, no activity covered by this chapter shall be permitted, including, but not limited to, subdividing as defined herein, development of land as defined herein, or improvements to land as defined herein, except in strict accordance with the requirements and procedures of this chapter.
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Interpretation. The provisions set forth herein shall be held to be the minimum requirements necessary to meet the stated purpose as required in this chapter and the general purposes of the MPC, as amended.[1]
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Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 10101 et seq.
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Conflicting provisions. Whenever there is a difference between the minimum standards specified herein and those included in other Borough ordinances and regulations, the more stringent requirements shall apply.
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Conflict with private provisions. If the requirements of this chapter are different from those contained within deed restrictions, covenants, or other private agreements, the requirements that are more restrictive or which impose higher standards shall govern, provided that the private provisions are otherwise lawful.
Hereafter, no lot in a subdivision may be sold, no permit to erect any building upon land in a subdivision may be issued, no cuts, grading or filling permitted and no street, walkway, curbs, gutters, streetlights, fire hydrants, shade trees, sanitary sewer, storm sewer, waterline, or other improvements as may be required herein shall be laid out, constructed, opened, or dedicated for public use or travel or for the common use of occupants of buildings abutting thereon, except in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
Hereafter, except as provided in this chapter, any plat of any subdivision, street, or development of land not approved by the Planning Commission in accordance with the provisions and procedures as set forth herein shall be null and void.
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From the time an application for approval of a plat, whether preliminary or final, is duly filed as provided in this chapter with the Planning Commission and while such application is pending approval or disapproval, no change or amendment in this chapter or other governing ordinance or plan shall affect the decision on such application adversely to the applicant, and the applicant shall be entitled to a decision in accordance with the provisions of the governing ordinances or plans as they stood at the time the application was duly filed. In addition, when a preliminary application has been duly approved, the applicant shall be entitled to final approval in accordance with the terms of the approved preliminary application as hereinafter provided. However, when an application is properly and finally denied, then any subsequent application shall be subject to the intervening change in governing regulations.
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When an application for approval of a plat, whether preliminary or final, has been approved or approved subject to conditions acceptable to the applicant, no subsequent change or amendment in this chapter or other governing ordinances or plans shall be applied to adversely affect the right of the applicant to commence and to complete any aspect of the approved development in accordance with the terms of such approval within five years from such approval. The five-year period shall be counted from the date of the preliminary approval.