This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Lower Pottsgrove Township Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance."
This chapter is adopted for the following purposes:
A. 
To assist orderly, efficient, integrated and harmonious development of the Township.
B. 
To assure sites suitable for building purposes and human habitation.
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To coordinate proposed streets with existing streets or other proposed streets, parks or other features of the Township Official Map Summary.
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To provide adequate open spaces for traffic, recreation, light and air and for proper distribution of population.
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To ensure conformance of subdivision and land development plans with the public improvements of the Township and coordination of intermunicipal, county and commonwealth improvement plans and programs.
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To secure equitable handling of all subdivision and land development plans by providing uniform procedures and standards.
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To regulate subdivisions and land developments within the jurisdiction of the Township and concurrently to promote the highest quality environment obtainable.
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To ensure that the layout and arrangement of the subdivision or land development plan is in conformance with the approved articles or chapters of the Comprehensive Plan and any regulations or maps adopted in furtherance thereof.
The provisions of this chapter shall be held to be minimum requirements to meet the above stated purposes. Where the provisions of this chapter impose greater restrictions than those of any statute, other ordinance or regulations, the provisions of this chapter shall prevail. Where the provisions of any statute, other ordinance or regulations impose greater restrictions than those of this chapter, the provisions of such statute, ordinance or regulation shall prevail.
A. 
Subdivision of a lot for construction, opening or dedication of a street. No subdivision of any lot, tract or parcel of land shall be effected, and no street, alley, sanitary sewer, storm drain, water main, gas, oil and electric transmission line, or other facilities in connection therewith, shall be laid out, constructed, opened or dedicated for public use or travel or for the common use of occupants of a building abutting thereon except in strict accordance with the subdivision and land development regulations adopted hereunder.
B. 
Sale of lots, issuance of building permits or erection of buildings. No lot in a subdivision or land development may be sold; no permit to erect, alter or repair any building upon land in a subdivision or land development may be granted unless and until a plat has been approved and, where required, recorded and until the required improvements in connection therewith from the lot or building to an existing improved street have either been constructed or the Township has been assured by means of a proper completion guarantee, in the form of a bond or the deposit of funds or securities in escrow sufficient to cover the cost of the required improvements, as estimated by the Township Engineer, that the improvements will subsequently be installed. Where owing to special conditions a literal enforcement of this subsection would result in unnecessary hardship, such reasonable exceptions thereto may be made as will not be contrary to the public interest, and the sale of a lot, issuance of a permit or erection of a building may be permitted subject to conditions necessary to assure adequate street and other improvements.
C. 
Condominium ownership plans. No section of this chapter shall be construed to prohibit condominium ownership as permitted by the Pennsylvania Uniform Condominium Act, 68 Pa.C.S.A. § 3101 et seq.