Pursuant to the powers vested in the Council of the Borough by the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code of 1968, as amended (Act of 1968, July 31, P.L. 805, Art.
V, Sections 501-515, as amended), this Part 1 is hereby adopted for the general purpose
of regulating subdivision and land development in the Borough in furtherance
of the following goals:
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 Edgeworth
Borough in accordance with the Comprehensive Plan of the Borough.
C. To provide for adequate light, air and privacy; to
avoid excessive noise; to secure safety from fire, flood and other
danger; to prevent overcrowding of the land and undue congestion of
population; and to prevent destruction of property due to aggravated
natural conditions.
D. To protect the character and the social and economic
stability of the Borough and to encourage its orderly and beneficial
development.
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,
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 descriptions and monumenting of subdivided land.
H. To establish reasonable standards of design and procedures
for subdivision and resubdivision 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, in keeping with Part
3 of this chapter, 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 preserve, in keeping with Part
3 of this chapter, the natural beauty and topography of the Borough and to ensure appropriate development with regard to these natural features.
L. To provide for open spaces through efficient design
and layout of the land.
M. And finally, 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.