Township of Upper Moreland, PA
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2023-12-04
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 300 Subdivision and Land Development
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Article I Title and Purpose
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 15 Environmental Advisory Council
- Ch 16 Human Relations
- Ch 18 Fire Department
- Ch 23 Historical Commission
- Ch 37 Manager, Township
- Ch 40 Mutual Aid
- Ch 43 Officers and Employees
- Ch 45 Pensions and Retirement
- Ch 50 Planning Advisory Agency
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 57 Adult Uses
- Ch 60 Alarm Systems
- Ch 63 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 65 Amusement Devices
- Ch 70 Animals
- Ch 75 Auctions and Public Sales
- Ch 80 Bicycles, Skateboards and Scooters
- Ch 88 Brush, Grass and Weeds
- Ch 95 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 103 Circuses, Carnivals and Fairs
- Ch 108 Code Enforcement
- Ch 115 Construction Standards
- Ch 119 Contractors
- Ch 125 Dust Control
- Ch 133 Erosion and Sediment Control
- Ch 140 Fees, Rates and Permits
- Ch 148 Firearms
- Ch 149 Fireworks
- Ch 153 Fire Prevention
- Ch 156 Floodplain Management
- Ch 160 Food and Drink Establishments
- Ch 165 Fumigation
- Ch 170 Gas Stations
- Ch 175 Grading
- Ch 177 Graffiti
- Ch 179 Hazardous Materials
- Ch 180 Health and Safety
- Ch 184 Insurance
- Ch 190 Junkyards
- Ch 203 Littering
- Ch 210 Massage Establishments
- Ch 211 Pawnbrokers and Dealers in Precious Metals, Antiques and Secondhand Goods
- Ch 217 Newspapers, Advertising Circulars and Other Publications
- Ch 223 Nuisances
- Ch 231 Parks and Recreation
- Ch 234 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 236 Peddling, Soliciting and Canvassing
- Ch 240 Portable Storage Units, Construction and Demolition Dumpsters, and Construction Trailers
- Ch 243 Property Maintenance
- Ch 256 Sewers and Sewerage
- Ch 258 Shade Trees
- Ch 263 Signs
- Ch 268 Site Plans
- Ch 274 Smoking
- Ch 279 Solid Waste
- Ch 285 Storm Sewers
- Ch 287 Stormwater Management
- Ch 290 Streets and Sidewalks, Use and Maintenance of
- Ch 295 Street, Sidewalk and Driveway Specifications
- Ch 300 Subdivision and Land Development
- Ch 300 Art I Title and Purpose
- § 300-1 Title and purpose.
- § 300-2 Interpretation.
- Ch 304 Swimming Pools
- Ch 310 Taxation
- Ch 316 Traffic Control Signals
- Ch 325 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 330 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 338 Wells
- Ch 350 Zoning
- Appendix
- Ch A360 Cable Television Franchise
- Ch A370 Notice of Violation
- Derivation Table
- Ch DT Derivation Table
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
A.
This chapter shall be known as the "Upper Moreland Township Subdivision
and Land Development Ordinance."
B.
This chapter and the regulations herein are adopted for the following
purposes:
(1)
To assure sites are suitable for building purposes and human habitation.
(2)
To assist the orderly, efficient, integrated and harmonious development
of the Township in order to provide the highest quality environment
obtainable.
(3)
To coordinate existing streets with proposed streets, parks or other
features of the Township's official plan of streets and highways.
(4)
To provide adequate open spaces for traffic, recreation, light, water
and air and for proper distribution of population, thereby creating
conditions favorable to the health, safety, morals and general welfare
of the citizens of the Township.
(5)
To ensure conformance of subdivision and land development plans with
the public improvement plans of the Township and coordination of intermunicipal
public improvement plans and programs which include counties and the
state.
(6)
To secure equitable handling of all subdivision and land development
plans by providing uniform procedures and design standards, plan requirements,
processing procedures, improvement construction and conditions of
acceptance of public improvements by the Township.
The provisions of this chapter shall be held to be minimum requirements
for the promotion of the above purposes. Where the provisions of this
chapter impose greater restrictions than those of any other ordinance
or regulation or resolution, the provisions of this chapter shall
be controlling. Where the provisions of any other ordinance, regulation
or resolution impose greater restrictions than this chapter, the provisions
of such other ordinance, regulation or resolution shall be controlling.
