[Ord. 01-11, 6/21/2001, § 101]
A chapter providing for the regulation and control of the subdivision
of lots and the development of land: the approval of plans, plots
or replots of land laid out in building lots; standards for the design
of streets, lots, easements, blocks and other improvements; minimum
improvements and construction standards for all associated infrastructure
and required dedications; the administration of this Chapter and penalties
for the violation of this Chapter.
[Ord. 01-11, 6/21/2001, § 102]
This Chapter shall be known and may be cited as "The Upper Macungie
Township Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance of 2001" and may
be referred to as "SALDO."
[Ord. 01-11, 6/21/2001, § 103]
1.
No subdivision or land development of any lot, tract or parcel of
land shall be made, and no street, sanitary sewer, water main, gas
or electric transmission line, or other improvements in connection
therewith shall be laid out, constructed, opened or dedicated for
public use or travel or for the common use of occupants of buildings
abutting thereon, except in accordance with this Chapter.
2.
No lot in a proposed subdivision or land development may be sold
and no final permit to erect any building upon land in a subdivision
or land development may be issued unless and until a final plan has
been approved and recorded and either the Township has been assured
by means of an improvements agreement acceptable to the Board of Supervisors
that the improvements will subsequently be installed or the required
improvements in connection therewith have been constructed. No one
shall offer for sale, enter into agreements of sale or in any way
make representations that a plan for subdivision or land development
may be recorded or constructed until such time as the governing body
has granted at least preliminary approval to such plan for subdivision
or land development. In the case of plans where final approval has
not yet been granted by the governing body, it shall be a violation
of this Chapter to offer for sale or enter into agreements of sale
for any land subject to review as a subdivision or land development
without the actual status of that review being committed to writing
as a part of any such offer or agreement.
3.
This Chapter shall apply to all subdivisions and land developments excepting subdivisions which have received preliminary plan approval from the Board of Supervisors between the effective date of this Chapter and a date five years prior to the effective date of this Chapter. Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsections 1 and 2 of this Section, the excepted subdivisions shall comply with the requirements of the Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance in effect at the date of the preliminary plan approval for a five-year period commencing at the date of the preliminary plan approval.
[Amended by Ord. No. 2021-14, 12/2/2021]
[Ord. 01-11, 6/21/2001, § 106; as amended by Ord. No. 2021-14, 12/2/2021]
If a court of competent jurisdiction declares this entire Chapter
to be invalid or ineffective, then the Upper Macungie Township Subdivision
and Land Development Ordinance, as most recently amended, shall be
automatically readopted.
