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A.
General. For the purposes of this chapter and to implement the Future
Land Use Plan of the West Manheim Township Comprehensive Plan, West
Manheim Township, York County, Pennsylvania, is hereby divided into
the designated growth area and the Farming Zoning District.
B.
Designated growth area (DGA). The designated growth area is intended
to accommodate the majority of the growth and development with a full
range of land uses such as residential, commercial, and industrial
needs. This area is currently served or planned to be served with
public utilities, including water and sewer. The expansion of public
utilities to vacant land currently not serviced with utilities is
strongly encouraged in the DGA.
C.
Farming Zoning District. The Farming Zoning District is intended
to be developed with a limited range of land uses including residential
(at densities greater than one unit per acre), natural resource lands,
villages, and agricultural resource lands. This area is currently
not served or is not planned to be served with public utilities, including
water and sewer. The extension of public utilities to vacant land
within the Farming Zoning District is strongly discouraged except
as necessary to alleviate unsafe conditions, such as failing septic
systems or contaminated wells.
A.
General. For the purposes of this chapter, West Manheim Township,
York County, Pennsylvania, is hereby divided into the following zoning
districts based upon the DGA and the Farming Zoning District.
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No. 2-2023]
C.
Farming Zoning District.
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D.
Zoning overlay districts. The following zoning overlay districts
include land within both the DGA and Farming Zoning District and encompass
one or more underlying zoning districts. These zoning overlay districts
impose additional requirements above that required by the underlying
zone:
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The zoning districts identified and referred to in § 270-15B and C of this chapter, and the locations of such zoning districts established by this chapter shall be designated by boundaries on the Official Zoning Map which is attached hereto[1] and is hereby adopted by reference and declared to be
part of this chapter, together with all future notations, references,
and amendments.
[1]
Editor's Note: The Zoning Map is included as an attachment to this chapter.
Where uncertainty exists regarding the boundaries of the zoning
districts as shown on the Official Zoning Map, the following rules
shall apply:
A.
Boundaries indicated as approximately following the center lines
of streets, highways or alleys shall be construed to follow such center
lines.
B.
Boundaries indicated as approximately following platted lot lines
shall be construed as following such lot lines.
C.
Boundaries indicated as approximately following municipality limits
shall be construed as following municipality limits.
D.
Boundaries indicated as following railroad lines shall be construed
to be midway, between the main tracks.
E.
Boundaries indicated as approximately following the center lines
of streams, rivers or other bodies of water shall be construed to
follow such center lines.
G.
Where a zoning district boundary or a municipal boundary divides
a lot, the minimum lot area shall be regulated by the zoning district
or the municipality in which the principal use(s) are located, unless
otherwise provided by applicable case law. The land area within each
zoning district or municipality shall be regulated by the use regulations
and other applicable regulations of each zoning district or municipality.
