This chapter is adopted:
(A) To promote the public health, safety, morals and general welfare;
(B) To assure that the arrangement of each subdivision or land development furthers the safe, harmonious and orderly development of the borough;
(C) To guarantee that the streets in and bordering each subdivision or land development are coordinated with the municipal circulation system and are of such widths, grades, locations and construction as to accommodate anticipated traffic and facilitate emergency service access;
(D) To ensure that public and private improvements necessary to support orderly development are installed and that a means of financial security for the quality of construction is established;
(E) To provide easements of adequate size and location for storm drainage and other utilities;
(F) To curtail unnecessary destruction of natural plant materials or excessive earth disturbance, minimize the impact of stormwater run-off on drainage ways and downstream properties and to prevent destruction of valuable wetland areas and farmland;
(G) To encourage development that relates to the neighborhood context;
(H) To establish a precise, simple, uniform and objective procedure for review and disposition of subdivisions and land development plan proposals, and to ease the process of conveyance of title to property;
(I) To complement the Borough Zoning Ordinance by ensuring that subdivision and land development plans are consistent with current zoning standards; and
(J) To implement the Wolf Creek Slippery Rock Creek Council of Governments Comprehensive Plan.
(Ord. 1432, passed 5-18-2015, Art. 1, § 102)