[Ord. 262, 10/14/1996, § 101]
This chapter shall be known as the "Township of Leet Subdivision
and Land Development Ordinance."
[Ord. 262, 10/14/1996, § 102]
1.
These regulations are adopted for the following purposes:
A.
To protect and provide for the public health, safety and general
welfare of the Township of Leet.
B.
To guide the future growth and development of the Township of Leet.
C.
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.
D.
To protect the character and social and economic stability of the
Township of Leet and to encourage the orderly and beneficial development
of the Township of Leet.
E.
To protect and conserve the value of land throughout the Township
of Leet, and the value of buildings and improvements upon the land
and to minimize the conflicts among the uses of land and buildings.
F.
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.
G.
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.
H.
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 insure proper legal descriptions and monumenting of subdivided
land.
I.
To insure that public facilities are available and will have a sufficient
capacity to serve the proposed subdivision.
J.
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.
K.
To preserve the natural beauty and topography of the Township and
to ensure appropriate development with regard to these natural features.
L.
To provide for open spaces through efficient design and layout of
the land.
M.
To ensure that documents prepared as part of a land ownership transfer
fully and accurately describe the parcel of land being subdivided
and the new parcels thus created.
[Ord. 262, 10/14/1996, § 103]
1.
Authority of the Commissioners. The Commissioners of the Township
of Leet are vested by law with the control of the subdivision of land
and land development within the Township by Act 247 of 1968, the Pennsylvania
Municipalities Planning Code, 53 P.S. § 10101 et seq., as
amended. The Commissioners shall retain the authority to approve all
subdivision plans and land development plans as required herein.
2.
Authority of the Township of Leet Planning Commission. The Planning
Commission is hereby designated by the Commissioners as an agency
which shall review and make recommendations on preliminary and final
subdivision and land development plans as required herein, prior to
action by the Commissioners and, when provided by ordinance, make
other recommendations.
[Ord. 262, 10/14/1996, § 104]
1.
Subdivision Control. No subdivision as herein defined, of any lot, tract or parcel of land shall be effected and no street, alley, sanitary sewer, storm sewer, water main or other facilities in connection therewith, shall be laid out, constructed, opened or dedicated for public use or travel, or for the common use of occupants of buildings abutting or to abut thereon, except in strict accordance with the provisions of this chapter. No lot in any subdivision may be sold, and no permit to erect, alter or repair any building upon land in a subdivision may be issued; and no building may be erected in a subdivision, unless and until a subdivision plan has been approved and recorded; and until the improvements required by the Commission in connection therewith have either been constructed or guaranteed as herein provided in § 22-612.
2.
Land Development Control.
A.
Land development, as herein defined, must comply with the regulations
contained herein. Such compliance shall include, but not be limited
to, the filing of preliminary and final plats, the dedication and
improvement of rights-of-way, streets and roads and the payment of
fees and charges as established by the Commissioners.
B.
Land development plans shall indicate the location of each structure
and clearly define each unit and shall indicate public easements,
common areas and improvements, all easements appurtenant to each unit
and improvements to the public rights-of-way. Developments are subject
to the zoning regulations as they apply to use and density requirements,
setbacks, parking and other features, and shall be indicated on the
land development plans.
C.
Land development, for purposes of this chapter, shall include the disturbance (grading), as defined in the Township's Grading and Excavation Ordinance (Chapter 9), of two or more acres of land in the same parcel of land. Any grading occurring on the same parcel of land over a ten-year period shall be counted cumulatively.
[Added by Ord. 2016-05, 9/12/2016]
[Ord. 262, 10/14/1996, § 105]
1.
Interpretation. In interpreting and applying the provisions of this
chapter, they shall be held to be minimum requirements for the promotion
of public health, safety, comfort, convenience and general welfare.
2.
Conflict with Public and Private Provisions.
A.
Public Provisions. Where any provision of this chapter imposes restrictions
different from those imposed by any other provision of this chapter
or any other ordinance, rule or regulation or other provision of law,
whichever provisions are more restrictive or impose higher standards
shall control.
B.
Private Provisions. This chapter is not intended to abrogate any
easement, covenant or any other private agreement or restriction;
provided, that where the provisions of this chapter are more restrictive
or impose higher standards or regulations than such easement, covenant
or other private agreement or restriction, the requirements of this
chapter shall govern. Where the provisions of the easement, covenant
or private agreement or restriction impose duties and obligations
more restrictive or higher standards than the requirements of these
regulations, or the determinations of the Commissioners in approving
a subdivision or enforcing this chapter, and such private provisions
are not inconsistent with this chapter or determinations thereunder,
then such private provisions shall be operative and supplemental to
these regulations and determinations made thereunder.
