Pursuant to the Pennsylvania Municipalities
Planning Code, Act 247 of 1968, as amended, this chapter shall hereafter be known, cited and referred
to as the "Riverside Borough Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance."
These regulations are adopted for the following
purposes:
A. To protect and provide for the public health, safety,
and general welfare of the residents.
B. To guide the future growth and development of the
community in accordance with the Comprehensive Plan.
C. To provide for adequate light, air, and privacy, to
secure safety from fire, flood, and other danger, and to prevent overcrowding
of the land and undue congestion of population.
D. To protect the character and the social and economic
stability of all parts of the Borough and to encourage the orderly
and beneficial development of all parts of the Borough.
E. To protect and conserve the value of land throughout
the Borough and the value of buildings and improvements upon the land,
and to minimize the conflicts among the uses of land and buildings.
F. To guide public and private policy and action in order
to provide adequate and efficient transportation, water, sewerage,
schools, parks, playgrounds, recreation, and public improvements and
facilities.
G. To provide the most beneficial relationship between
uses of land and buildings and the circulation of traffic throughout
the municipality, having particular regard for the avoidance of congestion
in the streets and highways, and the pedestrian traffic movements
appropriate to the various uses of land and buildings, and to provide
for the proper location and width of streets and building lines.
H. To establish reasonable standards of design and procedures
for subdivisions, resubdivisions, and land developments in order to
further the orderly layout and use of land, and to insure proper legal
descriptions and monumenting of subdivided land.
I. To insure that public facilities are available and
will have a sufficient capacity to serve the proposed subdivision
or development.
J. To prevent the pollution of air, streams, river, and
ponds, to assure the adequacy of drainage facilities, to safeguard
the water table, and to encourage the wise use and management of natural
resources throughout the municipality in order to retain the integrity,
stability, and beauty of the municipality and the value of the land.
K. To retain the natural beauty and topography of the
Borough, and to insure appropriate development with regard to these
natural features.
L. To provide for open spaces through the most efficient design and layout of the land, including the use of average density in providing for minimum width and area of lots, while preserving the density of land as established in Chapter
285, Zoning, of the Code of the Borough of Riverside.
The grant of a permit or approval of a subdivision
or land development plan shall not constitute a representation, guarantee,
or warranty of any kind by the municipality or by an official or employee
thereof of the practicability or safety of the proposed use and shall
create no liability upon the Borough, its officials or employees.
These regulations shall not be construed as
abating any action now pending under, or by virtue of, prior existing
subdivision regulations, or as discontinuing, abating, modifying,
or altering any penalty accruing or about to accrue, or as affecting
the liability of any person, firm, or corporation, or as waiving any
right of the Borough under any section or provision existing at the
time of adoption of these regulations, or as vacating or annulling
any rights obtained by any person, firm or corporation, by lawful
action of the Borough except as shall be expressly provided for in
these regulations.
The enactment of this chapter shall act as a
repeal of the Riverside Borough Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance
of 1981, as amended. A certified copy of this chapter shall be filed
with the County Planning Commission and with the County Law Library.
All applications for subdivision and land development
submitted to the Borough shall be forwarded upon receipt to the County
Planning Commission for review and report. The Borough shall not approve
such application until the county report is received or until the
expiration of 30 days from the date the application was forwarded
to the county.
In order that land may be subdivided and developed
in accordance with these purposes and policies, this chapter shall
become effective from and after the date of its approval and adoption
as provided by law.