This Chapter is enacted for the following purposes:
A. To promote, protect and facilitate one or more of the following: the public health, safety, morals and the general welfare; coordinated and practical community development and proper density of population; emergency management preparedness and operations, airports, and national defense facilities, the provision of adequate light and air, access to incident solar energy, police protection, vehicle parking and loading space, transportation, water, sewerage, schools, recreational facilities, public grounds, the provision of a safe, reliable and adequate water supply for domestic, commercial, agricultural or industrial use, and other public requirements; as well as the preservation of the natural, scenic and historic values in the environment and preservation of forest, wetlands, aquifers and floodplains.
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, flood, panic or other dangers.
C. To preserve prime agriculture and farmland considering topography, soil type and classification, and present use.
D. To provide for the use of land within the Borough for residential housing of various dwelling types encompassing all basic forms of housing, including single- family and two-family dwellings, and a reasonable range of multiple-family dwellings in various arrangements, mobile homes and mobile home parks; provided, however, that this Chapter shall not be deemed invalid for the failure to provide for any of other specific dwelling types and nonresidential uses.
E. To accommodate reasonable overall community growth, including population and employment growth, and opportunities for development of a variety of residential dwelling types and nonresidential uses.
(Ord. 2009-3, 12/16/2009, § 103)