The Borough Zoning Ordinance (now Articles I through XII of this chapter) was adopted on September 13, 1954, pursuant to the authority contained in Section 93 of the Act of July 10, 1947 (P.L. 1621) amending the Borough Code. The provisions of the Borough Code relating to zoning (as those provisions were subsequently amended) were repealed by the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code (Act No. 247 of July 31, 1968, effective January 1, 1969). The Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, however, continued the authority of boroughs to enact, amend and repeal zoning ordinances and validated zoning ordinances, resolutions, regulations and rules made by boroughs pursuant to those Acts of Assembly which were repealed by the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.[1]
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Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 10101 et seq.
[Amended 3-24-1986 by Ord. No. 86-2]
In accordance with the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning
Code and in accordance with the spirit and intent of the Comprehensive
Plan for the Borough of Lewistown (adopted September 13, 1954, and
amended October 25, 1976), it is the intent, purpose and development
objective of this chapter to promote and protect the public health,
safety, morals and welfare; to provide adequate light and air and
to prevent loss of health, life or property from fire, flood, panic,
overcrowding and other dangers; to provide for adequate off-street
parking space and loading space and to prevent danger and congestion
in travel and transportation; to promote and protect those desirable
characteristics for living and working which exist in the Borough
of Lewistown while reducing land sprawl, controlling over-density
in population and preventing blight; to promote and protect the practical
and coordinated development of balanced residential, commercial, manufacturing
and industrial uses in light of existing or proposed municipal facilities
and services; to control the use and development of land consistent
with its existing character and the character of the neighborhood
while taking into consideration the community need, the most appropriate
use of the land or the suitability of the land for particular uses
or structures; and in a geographical area of natural and scenic beauty,
to achieve balanced uses of land and buildings for residential, commercial,
manufacturing and industrial purposes as objects and values in themselves
which will contribute to the public welfare.
