This chapter shall be known as the "Borough of Verona Subdivision
and Land Development Ordinance."
This chapter is adopted for the following purposes:
A. To protect and provide for the public health, safety and general
welfare of the Borough of Verona.
B. To guide the future growth and development of the Borough of Verona
in accordance with the Comprehensive Plan of the Borough of Verona.
C. To provide for adequate light, air and privacy; to secure safety
from fire, flood and other danger; and to prevent overcrowding of
the land and undue congestion of population.
D. To protect the character and social and economic stability of the
Borough of Verona and to encourage the orderly and beneficial development
of the Borough of Verona.
E. To protect and conserve the value of land throughout the Borough
of Verona 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 of
Verona, 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 location and width of streets and building lines.
H. To establish reasonable standards of design and procedures for subdivisions
and resubdivisions 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 the pollution of air, streams and riverfronts 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 the natural beauty, topography and riverfronts of the
Borough of Verona 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 landownership
transfer fully and accurately describe the parcel of land being subdivided
and the new parcels thus created.