A New Zoning Ordinance: a) dividing the Borough of Coopersburg,
Lehigh County, Pennsylvania into zoning districts with varying regulations;
b) permitting, prohibiting and regulating: the uses of land, watercourses
and other bodies of water, the size, height, bulk, location, erection,
construction, expansion, razing, removal and use of structures, the
areas and dimensions of land and water to be occupied by uses and
structures, as well as open areas to be left unoccupied; c) establishing
the maximum density and intensity of uses; d) providing for the administration
and enforcement of this Ordinance in accordance with the Pennsylvania
Municipalities Planning Code (MPC)[1] as amended, including provisions for special exception
uses and variances to be administered by a Zoning Hearing Board; and
e) establishing provisions for the protection of certain natural features.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 10101 et seq.
This Ordinance shall be known and be cited as the "Borough of
Coopersburg Zoning Ordinance" of 2019.
It is hereby declared to be the legislative intent that if a
court of competent jurisdiction declares any provisions of this Ordinance
to be invalid or ineffective in whole or in part, the effect of such
decision shall be limited to those provisions which are expressly
stated in the decision to be invalid or ineffective, and all other
provisions of this Ordinance shall continue to be separately and fully
effective. The Borough Council hereby declares that it would have
passed this Ordinance and each section or part thereof, other than
any part declared invalid, if it had advance knowledge that any part
would be declared invalid. If the entire Zoning Ordinance should be
declared invalid, then the Borough of Coopersburg Zoning Ordinance
that was in effect immediately prior to the enactment of this new
Zoning Ordinance shall automatically be reinstated as the Zoning Ordinance
for the Borough of Coopersburg.
Allegations that this Ordinance or any amendment was enacted
in a procedurally defective manner shall be appealed as provided in
State law.
The pre-existing Borough of Coopersburg Zoning Ordinance, as
amended, is hereby repealed, in addition to the repeal of any other
subsections of Borough ordinances or resolutions or parts thereof
that were adopted prior to this Ordinance that are clearly in direct
conflict with this Ordinance.
Under the authority conferred by the Pennsylvania Municipalities
Planning Code, as amended, the Borough Council of the Borough of Coopersburg
hereby enacts and ordains into an Ordinance the attached document[1] this date of December 17, 2019. This Ordinance shall become
effective on December 22, 2019.
[1]
Editor's Note: Said document is included here as the
remainder of this chapter, including attachments.
