This chapter shall be known and may be cited
as the "Skippack Township Zoning Ordinance of 2008."
The zoning regulations and districts set forth
in this chapter are made in accordance with the community development
objectives as stated in the Skippack Township Comprehensive Plan of
2001 and are intended to achieve the following goals:
A.
To promote, protect and facilitate one or more of
the following: the public health, safety, morals, general welfare,
coordinated and practical community development, proper density of
population, civil defense, disaster evacuation, the provisions of
adequate light and air, police protection, vehicle parking and loading
space, transportation, water, sewerage, schools, public grounds and
other public requirements; as well as
B.
To prevent one or more of the following: overcrowding
of land, blight, danger and congestion in travel and transportation,
loss of health, life or property from fire, panic or other disasters;
as well as
C.
To provide standards to foster the amount of open
space within the Township; to control the intensity of development
in areas of sensitive natural resources or natural features in order
to reduce or eliminate adverse environmental impacts; to protect the
people's right-to clean air, pure water and the natural, scenic, historic,
recreational and aesthetic values of the environment; to protect the
soils, waterways, trees and other vegetation; and to protect natural
and agricultural resources which are a part of the ecological system
to which the residents are all bound and therefore are the common
property of all the people, including generations yet to come, and
which must be protected to ensure the health, safety and welfare of
all the people; and
D.
To provide standards for various types of dwelling
units so that all the people may have access to decent, sound and
sanitary housing; and to encourage the most appropriate use of land
throughout the Township.
In the interpretation and application of this
chapter, the provisions hereof shall be held to be the minimum requirements
for the promotion of the public health, safety and general welfare.
Where the provisions of this chapter impose greater restrictions than
those of any other ordinance or regulation, the provisions of this
chapter shall be controlling. Where the provisions of any statute,
other ordinance or regulation impose greater restrictions than this
chapter, the provisions of such statute, ordinance or regulation shall
be controlling.
The following Zoning Districts are hereby created:
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RA
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Residential/Agricultural District
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R1
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Residential District
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R2
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Residential District
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R3
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Residential District
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R4
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Residential District
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R5
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Residential/Mobile Home Park District
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VR
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Village Residential District
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NL
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Neighborhood Lotting District
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AAR2
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Active Adult Residential District
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AAR4
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Active Adult Residential District
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VC
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Village Commercial District
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GC
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General Commercial District
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SC
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Shopping Center District
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LI
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Limited Industrial District
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CF
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Correctional Facility District
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PR
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Park and Recreation District
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UT
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Utility Transmission District
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The boundaries of each zoning district, except the Floodplain Conservation District and the Wireless Overlay District, shall be as shown on the map that follows Article IV of this chapter, which map shall be known as the "Zoning District Map".[1] The Floodplain Conservation District shall be shown on the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Flood Insurance Rate Map for the Township, dated October 19, 2001, as amended. Article X, § 200-120 of this chapter, shall identify the Wireless Overlay District. Said maps and all notations, references, and data shown thereon are hereby incorporated by reference into this chapter, and shall be as much a part of this chapter as if all were fully described herein.
[1]
Editor's Note: The Zoning District Map is
on file in the Township Offices and may be examined there during regular
office hours.
Where uncertainty exists with respect to the
boundaries of the zoning district as indicated on the Zoning District
Map, except in the case of the Potential Floodplain Areas Map, the
following rules shall apply:
A.
Where district boundaries are indicated as approximately
coinciding with the center lines of streets, highways, railroad rights-of-way,
or streams, said district boundaries shall be established at the center
lines.
B.
Where district boundaries are so indicated that they
approximately coincide with lot lines, such lot lines shall be construed
to be said boundaries or where district boundaries are extensions
of lot lines or connect the intersections of lot lines, such lines
shall be said district boundaries.
C.
Where district boundaries are so indicated that they
are approximately parallel to center lines of streets or highways,
such district boundaries shall be construed as being parallel thereto
and at such distance therefrom as indicated on the Zoning District
Map.
D.
Where district boundaries divide a lot, the location
of such boundaries shall be determined by the use of the scale shown
on the Zoning District Map unless dimensions indicate the boundaries.
Wherever federal, state or county owned property
is included in one or more zoning districts, it shall be subject to
the provisions of this chapter only insofar as is permitted by the
Constitution and Laws of the United States of America and of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania. In the case of municipally owned property, the provisions
of this chapter shall not apply.
