A.
The purpose of this chapter is to establish zoning districts for
the Township of North Versailles.
The overall community development objectives are to:
A.
Encourage infill housing at a scale and manner appropriate to surrounding
and predominately single-family neighborhoods.
B.
Prevent blight, while preventing overcrowding.
C.
Encourage the preservation of open space throughout the Planning
Area through the preservation of wooded hillsides and interconnected
common open space.
D.
Protect the Planning Area's natural resources, including steeply
sloped and wooded areas.
E.
Provide for and encourage reasonable community growth, to include
a broad and adequate range of permitted uses based, in part, on the
findings of the Multi-Municipal Comprehensive Plan, and redevelopment
of existing neighborhoods while protecting the Planning Area's
natural resources and fostering the stability of existing development
within the Planning Area.
F.
Encourage efficient pedestrian, as well as vehicular, circulation.
A.
The following constitute the objective of the municipality within the Planning Area and expressly recognize the general objectives cited in § 300-201.
B.
North Versailles Township.
(1)
Encourage large-scale development and redevelopment of blighted
and vacant land near main arterials in a manner that encourages stable
growth of needed industries, thereby providing such uses that are
defined by a larger scale at those areas of the Planning Area (typically
lying within the Township) where they may be accommodated.
(2)
Create specific community character through the development
of unique and creative residential plans, including planned residential
development, while buffering such developments from adjacent existing
and traditional neighborhoods within the boroughs or creating traditional
neighborhood development integrated therewith.
