This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Skippack Township,
Montgomery County, Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance of 1982."
This chapter is adopted for the following purposes:
A.
To assist orderly efficient, integrated and harmonious
development of the Township.
B.
To ensure conformance of subdivision and land development
plans by providing uniform procedures and standards.
C.
To coordinate proposed streets with existing streets
or other proposed streets, parks or other features of the Township Comprehensive
Plan.
D.
To provide adequate open spaces for traffic, recreation,
light and air, and for proper distribution of population.
E.
To ensure conformance of subdivision and land development
plans with the public improvements of the Township, and coordination of municipal,
county and commonwealth improvement plans and programs.
F.
To assure sites suitable for building purposes and human
habitation.
G.
To regulate subdivisions and land developments within
the jurisdiction of the Township and to promote the highest quality environment
obtainable.
H.
To ensure that the layout and arrangement of the subdivision or land development plan is in conformance with the Comprehensive Plan and to any regulations or maps adopted in furtherance thereof, including Chapter 200, Zoning.
I.
To provide proper procedures and regulation of the recording
of all public and private easements and rights-of-way within the Township.
J.
To provide for the preservation of floodplains and low-lying
areas of the Township.
K.
To provide a procedure and establish responsibility for
the completion of all public improvements.
L.
To regulate all earthmoving activities within the Township,
prevent soil erosion and to provide sedimentation control of Township streams.
M.
To preserve natural amenities of the Township, including
but not limited to: stream valleys, floodplain, woodlands, steep slopes, prime
agricultural soils (as defined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture), and
prime specimen trees.
[Added 9-23-1998 by Ord. No. 229]
N.
To ensure that all new development protects existing
vegetation to the maximum extent possible in order to retard soil erosion,
protect significant natural areas and wildlife habitat, soften the visual
impact of new development, promote groundwater recharge, and improve air quality.
[Added 9-23-1998 by Ord. No. 229]
O.
To provide buffers between land uses to act as sound
barriers and windbreaks where desirable, to visually soften the impacts of
adjacent land uses, and to integrate new development with its surroundings.
[Added 9-23-1998 by Ord. No. 229]
The provisions of this chapter shall be held to be minimum requirements
to meet the above stated purposes. Where the provisions of this chapter impose
greater restrictions than those of any statute, other ordinance or regulations,
the provisions of this chapter shall prevail. Where the provisions of any
statute, other ordinance or regulation impose greater restrictions than those
of this chapter, the provision of such statute, ordinance or regulation shall
prevail.
