[Ord. 278, 9/18/1991]
This Part shall be known as the "Township of Richland Subdivision
and Land Development Ordinance."
[Ord. 278, 9/18/1991]
These regulations are adopted for the following purposes:
1. To protect and provide for the public health, safety, and general
welfare of the Township.
2. To guide the future growth and development of the Township, in accordance
with the Comprehensive Plan of the Township.
3. 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.
4. To protect the character and social and economic stability of the
Township and to encourage the orderly and beneficial development of
the Township.
5. To protect and conserve the value of land throughout the Township,
and the value of buildings and improvements upon the land and to minimize
the conflicts among the uses of land and buildings.
6. 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.
7. To provide the most beneficial relationship between the uses of land
and buildings and the circulation of traffic within the Township,
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.
8. To establish reasonable standards of design and procedures for subdivision
and resubdivision, in order to further the orderly layout and use
of land; and to ensure proper legal descriptions and monumenting of
subdivided land.
9. To ensure that public facilities are available and will have a sufficient
capacity to serve the proposed subdivision.
10. To prevent the pollution of air, streams, and ponds; 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.
11. To preserve the natural beauty and topography of the Township and
to ensure appropriate development with regard to these natural features.
12. To provide for open spaces through efficient design and layout of
the land.
13. And finally, to ensure that documents prepared as part of land ownership
transfer fully and accurately describe the parcel of land being subdivided
and the new parcels thus created.
[Ord. 278, 9/18/1991; as amended by Ord. 325, 7/3/1996]
1. Any person, acting in his/her own behalf or on behalf of a firm,
corporation or other entity, who violates any provision of this Part
shall be civilly liable to the Township in the amount of $600, said
liability to be his/hers and/or that of the firm, corporation or other
entity. In each instance, the Township Secretary, Code Enforcement
Officer or police officer shall make a determination of violation
and notify the violator by first-class mail or personal service of
a copy of the civil citation in form adopted by resolution of the
Board of Supervisors.
2. The person, firm, corporation or entity cited as a violator may pay
the amount of civil liability at a rate of 33% of the amount cited
if said payment is made and received by the Township within 10 days
of the date of the citation.
3. In the instance of a continuing violation of this Part, each day
the violation is deemed to continue is, in and of itself, another
violation and shall constitute a separate liability in the same amount
as originally stated and may be cited as such in the same manner as
above set forth.
4. The failure to pay the citation amount of the civil liability by
such discount date as stated above shall give cause for the Township
by its appropriate official or Solicitor to initiate a civil complaint
or complaints against the violator for collection of the civil liability,
interest, costs and attorney's fees.