In addition to the general purposes and intent behind the adoption
of this Zoning Ordinance, the following specific community development
objectives identified as essential to orderly growth and change throughout
the Borough have been considered as a basis upon which the regulations
and controls of this chapter are derived:
A.Â
Verona Borough is an older, already developed municipality containing
a variety of activities with a minimum of detrimental intermixtures
of uses.
B.Â
In a community which had a seven-percent population reduction between
1960 and 1970, the major concerns relative to future change are maintenance
of older housing, prevention of deterioration of residential neighborhoods,
and encouragement of development opportunities to help stabilize the
size of the population.
C.Â
Since public utilities are available throughout the Borough, together
with generally adequate community facilities, including neighborhood
schools and playgrounds, these assets should be continually maintained
to encourage private property maintenance and new development.
D.Â
In certain areas a more dense pattern of residential development
should occur through new apartment construction and conversion of
older, larger one-family dwellings to two-family use.
E.Â
The commercial area along Allegheny River Boulevard should be upgraded
by provision of off-street parking, coordination of private improvements,
and utilization for residential or office purposes of upper floors.
F.Â
New growth in the industrial areas and residential areas near the
river or streams draining to it should take account of periodic flooding.
G.Â
Access to and development of riverfront land for public and private
recreational use should be encouraged.
H.Â
Development controls should help stabilize population change, should
protect the residential areas from encroachment of downgrading influences,
should influence revitalization of the commercial areas and should
be uniformly and objectively enforced.
