STATUTORY REFERENCES
Supervisors may serve on Planning Commission — See
2nd Class Sec. 401.
Planning agencies — See Penna.
Mun. Plan. Code, Art. II.
Joint municipal planning commissions — See
Penna. Mun. Plan. Code, Art. XI.
GENERAL REFERENCES
Referral of zoning amendments to Planning Commission — See
Section 1299.12(e).
[Ord. 21. Passed 7-19-1955; Ord. 247. Passed 2-8-1988; amended 12-9-2008 by Ord. No.
461]
There is hereby established, in and for the
Township, a Planning Commission, to consist of up to nine members
appointed by the Board of Supervisors.
[Ord. 247. Passed 2-8-1988]
The members of the Planning Commission shall
be residents of the Township and shall serve without compensation.
They shall be appointed by the Township Supervisors for a term of
four years, except that the terms of the members appointed shall be
so fixed that the terms of not more than two members shall expire
in any one year. New appointments to the Commission shall be appointed
for the terms which accomplish this result. The members of the Commission
shall hold no other Township office except that of a member of the
Zoning Hearing Board.
The purpose and duty of the Planning Commission
are to advise the Board of Supervisors concerning the most expedient
methods of promoting the orderly development of the Township. Prior
to adoption, all proposed zoning ordinances or amendments thereto,
subdivision ordinances or plans, and related laws or ordinances shall
be submitted to the Commission for its consideration and study. The
Commission shall make its recommendations and report to the Board
on matters referred to the Commission within a reasonable time after
its opinion or advice is requested, but not later than the dates set
for a public hearing on such legislation pursuant to Sections 504,
505 and 609 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, Act
247 of 1968, as amended. The Commission is hereby vested with all
of the powers, duties and responsibilities set forth in Section 209.1
of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.
[Ord. 247. Passed 2-8-1988]
All subdivision, land development and rezoning
applications submitted to the Township Supervisors for their approval
pursuant to the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code or the Subdivision
and Land Development Regulations of the Township shall be referred
to the Planning Commission for its recommendation, and the Commission
shall provide its recommendations on all such matters to the Board
of Supervisors within such time as will permit the Board to meet its
own mandatory deadlines under the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning
Code or any other applicable statute, ordinance, rule or regulation.
[Ord. 21. Passed 7-19-1955]
The Planning Commission shall keep a record
of its resolutions, transactions, findings and determinations, which
record shall be a public record.
[Ord. 21. Passed 7-19-1955]
The Planning Commission shall not let contracts
or incur any debts on behalf of the Township. However, the Commission
is hereby authorized to expend, in a manner it deems advisable, such
sums as are, prior to such expenditures, appropriated by the Board
of Supervisors for the work of the Commission. Within this limitation,
the Commission may appoint such employees and staff as it deems necessary
for its work and may contract with planners and other consultants
for such technical services as it may require.
