The Zoning Hearing Board shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear and render final adjudication in the following matter:
(a) Substantive challenges to the validity of all land use ordinance, except curative amendments brought before Borough Council.
(b) Challenges to the validity of a land use ordinance raising procedural questions or alleged defects in the process of enactment or adoption which challenges shall be raised by an appeal taken with thirty days after the effective date of this Zoning Ordinance.
(c) Appeals from the determination of the Zoning Officer, including, but not limited to, the granting or denial of any permit, or failure to act on the application therefor, the issuance of any cease and desist order or the registration or refusal to register any nonconforming use, structure or lot.
(d) Appeals from a determination by the Borough Engineer or the Zoning Officer with reference to the administration of any flood plain or flood hazard ordinance or such provisions within a land use ordinance.
(e) Applications for variances from the terms of this Zoning Ordinance and flood hazard ordinance or such provisions within a land use ordinance pursuant to Section 1309.06.
(f) Applications for special exceptions under this Zoning Ordinance or flood plain or flood hazard ordinance or such provisions within a land use ordinance, pursuant to Section 1309.07.
(g) Appeals from the Zoning Officer's determination under Section 916.2 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code. (Act 247, as amended.)
(h) Appeals from the determination of the Zoning Officer or Borough Engineer in the administration of any land use ordinance or provision thereof with reference to sedimentation and erosion control and storm water management insofar as the same relate to development not involving subdivision and land development or planned residential development.
(Ord. 2843. Passed 11-20-89.)