This chapter shall be known as the "East Caln
Township Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance of 1993."
This chapter is adopted for the following purposes:
A. To promote and protect the public health, safety,
morals and welfare.
B. To promote orderly, efficient, integrated, and harmonious
development in the Township.
C. To require sites suitable for building purposes and
human habitation in keeping with the standards of quality existing
in the Township and to alleviate peril from fire, flood, erosion,
excessive noise, smoke or other menace.
D. To coordinate proposed streets and other improvements
with existing or proposed streets, parks or other features of the
Comprehensive Plan and to provide for drainage, water supply, sewage
disposal and other appropriate utility services.
E. To encourage preservation of adequate open spaces
for recreation, light and air and maintenance of the natural amenities
characteristic of the Township and its residential, commercial, agricultural,
industrial and public areas.
F. To ensure conformance of subdivision and land development
plans with the Comprehensive Plan, Zoning Ordinance and public improvement
plans and to ensure coordination of intergovernmental improvement
plans and programs.
G. To secure equitable treatment of all subdivision and
land development plans by providing uniform procedures and standards.
H. To ensure that developments are environmentally sound
by requiring preservation of the natural features of the areas to
be developed to the greatest extent practicable, to maintain the economic
well-being of the Township and to prevent unnecessary or undesirable
blight, runoff and pollution.
I. To secure the protection of water resources and drainageways.
J. To establish provisions governing the standards by
which streets shall be granted and improved, and walkways, curbs,
gutters, street lights, fire hydrants, water and sewage facilities
and other improvements shall be installed as a condition precedent
to final approval of plans.
K. To regulate the modification of the natural terrain
and alternations of existing drainage from new subdivisions and new
land developments in order to control erosion and sedimentation of
soils and preserve stream channels and water quality and provide design,
construction and maintenance and storm drainage facilities for controlling
stormwater, erosion, and sedimentation and maintaining the quality
of the watersheds within the Township.