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SUBDMSION AND LAND DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER 180 FROM THE CODE OF THE TOWNSHIP OF SNYDER BLAIR COUNTY PENNSnvANIA UNI-TEC CONSULTING ENGINEERS, INC. 2007 Cat0 Avenue State College, Pennsylvania 16801 I, Deborah J. Myers, do hereby certify that I am the Secretary of I Snyder Township, Blair County, Pennsylvania, that I am authorized to make this certification, that the attached Ordinance 93-8, a Subdivision and Land I Development Ordinance for Snyder Township is a true and correct copy of said ~I ordinance as passed at the special meeting of the Board of Supervisors of Snyder Township on December 31, 1993, at which time all members of the Board of Supervisors were present and voting. The vote on said ordinance was (3) Yes and (0) No. FA , I Y Deborah J. Myyrs, Secyetary I P WHEREAS, the Board of Supervisors of Snyder Township, Blair County, Pennsylvania, desire to protect and promote safety, health and morals of the people of the township, to accomplish coordinated development; to provide for the general welfare by guiding and protecting amenity, convenience, future, governmental, economic, practical, and social and cultural facilities, development and growth, as well as the improvement of governmental processes and functions; to guide uses of land and structures, type and location of streets, public grounds and other facilities; to promote the conversation of energy through the use of planning practices and to promote the effective utilization of renewable energy sources; and to permit the Township of Snyder to minimize such problems as may presently exist or which may be foreseen. AND WHEREAS, said ordinance has been submitted unto the Blair County Planning Commission for recommendations and approval received by said Commission on December 21,1993. AND WHEREAS, a public hearing has been held concerning said ordinance on December 31,1993. AND WHEREAS, said ordinance has been published in the Altoona Mirror on December 24, 1993, copies of said ordinance were sent to the Altoona Mirror and The Daily Herald of Tyrone on December 23, 1993, and a copy of said ordinance filed in the Blair County Law Library on December 23,1993. NOW THEREFORE, the Supervisors of Snyder Township, Blair County, Pennsylvania, in accordance with the powers granted unto them by the Act of Assembly of 1933, May 1, P.L. 103. as supplemented and amended (The Second Class Township Code, 53 P.S. 65101 et seq) and the Act of Assembly of 1988, December 21, P.L. 1329, as supplemented and amended (The Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, 53 P.S. 10101 et seq) do HEREBY ENACT AND ORDAIN AND IT IS HEREBY ENACTED AND ORDAINED as follows: -- UNI-TEC CONSULTING ENGINEERS, INC. 2007 Cat0 Avenue, State College, PA 16801 Phone (814) 238-8223 - Fax (814) 238-7808 ~anuary3,1994 File NO. 153-012-3 Blair County Planning Commission Highland Hall Annex Blair County Courthouse Hollidaysburg, Pa 16648 RE: Snyder Township Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance Gentlemen: Please find enclosed one executed copy of the adopted Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance, Chapter 180, from the Code of the Township of Snyder, Blair County, Pennsylvania. Sincerely, UNI-TEC CONSULTING ENGINEERS, INC. Vice-president JPC/wgs Enclosure cc: Allen E. Gibboney Snyder Township Supervisors u 1 SUBDIVISION AND LAND DEVELOPMENT '. CHAPTER 180 I ARTICLE I - General Provisions 180-1 Title I 180-2 Statutory Authority 180-3 Purpose 180-4 Establishment of Controls I 180-5 Definitions I ARTICLE I1 - Plan Review Procedures 180-6 General Requirements 180-7 Preapplication Conference I 180-8 Preliminary Review of Plan 180-9 Final Review of Plan 180-10 Recording of Plan I 180-11 Minor Subdivisions I ARTICLE 111 - Plan Requirements 180-12 Contents of Plans Submitted for Preliminary Review 180-13 Contents of Plans Submitted for Final Review P 180-14 Contents of Record Plans I ARTICLE N - Design and Improvement Standards 180-15 General Requirements 180-16 Streets I 180-17 Blocks 180-18 Lots and Parcels 180-19 Sewage Disposal Systems I 180-20 Water Supply 180-21 Easements 180-22 Monuments and Markers 180-23 Shade Trees 1 180-24 Erosion and Grading Control 180-25 Storm Drainage 180-2.6 Parkland and Open Space 1 180-27 Supplemental Land Development Requirements I ARTICLE V - Administration and Enforcement 180-28 Enforcement Authority; Fees 180-29 Violations and Penalties 180-30 Amendments '. 180-31 Enactment I! I! I I. SUBDMSION AND LAND DEVELOPMENT ARTICLE I I General Provisions 180-1 Title I This Chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Snyder Township Subdivision Regulations." I 180-2 Statutory Authority This Chapter is enacted and ordained under the grant of powers by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of I Pennsylvania in the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code Act of 1968. July 31, P.L. 805, as amended (53 P.S. Section 10101 et seq.). I 180-3 Purpose I This Chapter is enacted for the following purposes: A. To protect and provide for the health, safety and general welfare of the municipality. B. To guide the future growth and development of the municipality in accordance with the Comprehensive I Plan. C. To protect the character and the social and economic stability of all parts of the municipality and to P encourage the orderly and beneficial layout and development of the municipality; to establish reasonable procedures for subdivision review; and to ensure proper legal descriptions and monumenting of subdivided I land. D. To protect and conserve the value of land throughout the municipality and the value of buildings and improvements upon the land, and to minimize the conflicts among the uses of land and buildings. I E. To guide public and private policy and action in order to provide adequate and efficient transportation, water, sewerage, fire protection and other public requirements and facilities; to provide the most beneficial relationship between the uses of land and buildings and the circulation of traffic throughout the municipality, 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 design of streets; to ensure that public facilities and easements are available and will have a sufficient capacity to serve the proposed subdivision or land development. F. To minimize pollution of streams and ponds; to assure the adequacy of drainage facilities; to safeguard the m water table; and to encourage the wise use and management of natural resources. 180-4 Establishment of Controls In their interpretation and application, the regulations set by this Chapter shall be held to be the minimum requirements adopted for the promotion of the purposes of this Chapter. A. Types of control. This Chapter contains regulations governing the following: submission procedures for the review and disposition of subdivision and land development plans; graphic and written information to be contained on or filed with such plans; the design and installation of required improvements; the layout and arrangement of lots and blocks; the reservation of land for public use; and methods of handling storm drainage and erosion and sedimentation. I B. New Subdivisions and Land Developments. I 1. No subdivision or land development of any lot, tract or parcel of land shall be made, and no street, sanitary sewer, storm sewer, water main or other improvements in connection therewith shall be laid 0111,constructed, opened or dedicated for public use or travel or for the common use of occupants of buildings abutting thereon, except in accordance with thc provisions of this Chapter. I 2. This Chapter shall apply to all plans submitted for initial approval of a subdivision or land development after the date of enactment of this Chapter. I C. Existing Subdivisions and Land Developments. I 1. This Chapter shall apply to any subdivision or land development which occurred without obtaining approval required under this Chapter or previous subdi\ision ordinances of this municipality. 2. The provisions of this Chapter governing the design and installation of improvements shall apply to 1 any unbuilt portion of a subdivision or land development for which a preliminary or fmal plan was approved more than three (3) years prior to the date of the enactment of this Chapter. Where final plan approval was preceded by preliminary plan approval, the three-year period shall be I counted from the date of the preliminary plan approval. 3. Any preliminary plan approved within three (3) years prior to the date of enactment of this Chapter shall be entitled to final plan approval, within three (3) years of the date of approval of the said preliminary plan, according to the terms of said plan. D. Relationship to other restrictions. The provisions of this Chapter are not intended to interfere with, I abrogate or annul other rules, regulations or ordinances, provided that where this Chapter imposes a greater restriction than that imposed by such other rules, easements, covenants, restrictions, regulations or Ordinances, the provisions of this Chapter shall control. I E. Exemptions. This Chapter shall not apply to any subdivision or land development exempted by the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code or other laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. I 180-5 Definitions I A. Word usage. For the purpose of this Chapter, certain terms and words used herein shall be interpreted as follows: 1. Words used in the present tense include the future tense; the singular number includes the plural, I and the plural number includes the singular; words of masculine gender include feminine gender, and words of feminine gender include masculine gender. I 2. The word "includes" or "including" shall not limit the term to the specific example but is intended to extend its meaning to all other instances of like kind and character.