These regulations are adopted for the following purposes:
(A) To protect and provide for the public health, safety, and general welfare of the borough;
(B) To guide the future growth and development of the borough, in accordance with the Comprehensive Plan of the borough;
(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 social and economic stability of the borough and to encourage the orderly and beneficial development 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 supply, sewerage, storm water management, schools, parks, playgrounds, recreation, and other public requirements and facilities;
(G) To provide the most beneficial relationship between the uses of land and buildings and the circulation of traffic within the borough, having particular regard to 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 subdivision and resubdivisions, in order to further the orderly layout and use of land; and to ensure proper legal descriptions and monumenting of subdivided land;
(I) To ensure that public facilities are available and will have a sufficient capacity to serve the proposed subdivision;
(J) To prevent the pollution of air, streams, 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 in order to preserve the community and value of the land;
(K) To control storm water in a manner consistent with the county storm water management plan;
(L) To regulate the subdivision and/or development of land within any designated floodplain district in order to promote the general health, welfare, and safety of the community;
(M) To require that each subdivision lot in flood-prone areas include a safe building site with adequate access; and that public facilities which serve such uses be designed and installed to minimize flood damage;
(N) To protect individuals from buying lands which are unsuitable for use because of flooding by prohibiting the improper subdivision and/or development of unprotected lands within the designated floodplain districts;
(O) To preserve the natural beauty and topography of the borough and to ensure appropriate development with regard to these natural features;
(P) To provide for open spaces through efficient design and layout of the land; and
(Q) To ensure that documents prepared as part of a land ownership transfer fully and accurately describe the parcel of land being subdivided and the new parcels thus created.
(Prior Code, Ch. 22, Pt. 1, § 102) (Ord. 2-2001, passed 7-2-2001)