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The Joint Comprehensive Plan for Northern Berks County The Joint Comprehensive Plan for Northern Berks County Hamburg Borough Strausstown Borough Tilden Township Upper Bern Township Upper Tulpehocken Township Windsor Township February 2005 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This document was largely financed by Berks County’s Federal Community Development Block Grant Program. Berks County has established a policy for funding local planning with CDBG funds that implements the principles defined in the Berks County Comprehensive Plan Revision. A major objective is to promote joint municipal planning, intergovernmental and regional cooperation. As a result, the County initiated a Local Planning Partnership Fund, to fund the preparation of local comprehensive plans for municipalities that engage in joint planning efforts. The County commends municipal officials of Hamburg Borough, Strausstown Borough, Tilden Township, Upper Bern Township, Upper Tulpehocken Township, and Windsor Township, as well as the joint committee members, for their participation in this program. The Joint Municipal Comprehensive Plan for Northern Berks County Joint Comprehensive Planning Committee Roy Heffner Diana Edwards Paul Crivellaro Ronald Bowers Charles Thompson Fred Wolf Walter Axsmith William Lesher Paul Loeb Ernest T. Comisac Barry Bentz Jeremy Bentz Robert D. Schellhamer, Berks County Planning Commission Spotts, Stevens and McCoy, Inc., Planning Consultant TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 Introduction to the Comprehensive Plan 1-1 PART 1 GOALS AND OBJECTIVES AND ISSUES CHAPTER 2 Community Development Goals and Objectives 2-1 CHAPTER 3 Overview of the Northern Berks Region 3-1 CHAPTER 4 Planning Questionnaire and Phone Survey 4-1 PART 2 THE PLAN FOR NORTHERN BERKS COUNTY CHAPTER 5 Plan Interrelationships 5-1 CHAPTER 6 Community Facilities and Services Plan 6-1 CHAPTER 7 Future Land Use and Housing Plan 7-1 CHAPTER 8 Circulation Plan 8-1 CHAPTER 9 Plan for the Protection of Natural and Historic Resources 9-1 CHAPTER 10 Economic and Community Development 10-1 CHAPTER 11 Action Plan 11-1 TABLE OF CONTENTS PART 3 BACKGROUND STUDIES CHAPTER 12 Existing Land Use 12-1 CHAPTER 13 Public Sanitary Sewer and Water Facilities 13-1 CHAPTER 14 Agricultural Resources 14-1 CHAPTER 15 Natural Features 15-1 CHAPTER 16 Geology and Aquifer Yields 16-1 CHAPTER 17 Scenic Resources 17-1 CHAPTER 18 Existing Pedestrian Circulation and Parking Issues 18-1 CHAPTER 19 Regional Influences 19-1 CHAPTER 20 Population and Housing 20-1 CHAPTER 21 Parks, Recreation and Open Space 21-1 CHAPTER 22 Historic Resources 22-1 CHAPTER 23 Major Issues Facing the Region 23-1 CHAPTER 24 Traffic Circulation 24-1 CHAPTER 25 Community Facilities 25-1 TABLE OF CONTENTS (Cont’d.) APPENDIX 1 QUESTIONNAIRE RESULTS APPENDIX 2 POPULATION AND HOUSING DATA APPENDIX 3 NATIONAL AND STATE EFFORTS AND LEGISLATION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION APPENDIX 4 GROWING GREENER WORKBOOK MODEL LANGUAGE DESCRIBING ORDINANCE IMPROVEMENTS NEEDED TO IMPLEMENT CONSERVATION PLANNING OBJECTIVES APPENDIX 5 TRANSPORTATION IMPACT FEES CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN Why This Comprehensive Plan? Northern Berks is a special and unique place. It has beautiful, unspoiled rural areas affording scenic views; interesting main streets in downtowns; traditional neighborhoods; recreational opportunities in and along its parks, game lands, woodlands, trails, streams, and river; attractive, historic rural churches; a vivid history and interesting historic resources; a rich agricultural heritage; all against the Blue Mountain as a backdrop. In Northern Berks there is still an opportunity to really plan and make a difference. The purpose of this Comprehensive Plan is to proactively work to assure that the future of the Northern Berks area will be shaped by the municipalities' own vision, rather than by reactions to forces acting upon the Boroughs and the Townships. This plan will manage rather than react to growth, work to retain the vitality of its existing settlements, and protect its many assets and resources. The Boroughs and the Townships have prepared individual comprehensive plans in the past. This Comprehensive Plan is the first joint planning effort by all municipalities, and was initiated because of the recognized need to examine overall planning for the area in light of development trends and pressures in the Region; determine common goals and objectives for land use, circulation, community facilities, housing, open space and recreation, natural resources, municipal services, and resource preservation; analyze interconnections with and connections to surrounding municipalities; coordinate land use, housing, transportation, community facility and utility, economic development, and resource preservation planning; and recognize the Comprehensive Plan for Berks County. Shoemakersville and Perry Township have been included in other individual or joint planning efforts, so they were not a part of this Comprehensive Plan. Planning jointly allows allocation of land uses, housing types, densities, and development patterns over the entire region, rather than trying to fit all types of uses and densities into each municipality. It also allows for coordinated land use planning along municipal boundaries; coordinated planning for trails, recreation and open space, and transit throughout the Region; and coordinated planning along the common road corridors in the Region. Coordinated input can be provided to County and State agencies. An overall approach to economic development can be provided, addressing retention of the major component of the economy, agriculture, and allowing for appropriate commercial and industrial development which complements rather than detracts from existing downtowns at appropriate locations. 1-1 What does a Comprehensive Plan Accomplish? The Comprehensive Plan contains a vision of what the Boroughs and the Townships want to be and includes goals and objectives for realizing that vision. Through accomplishing those goals and objectives and realizing the vision, the quality of life for the Region’s residents will be enhanced. The Comprehensive Plan is also an educational document, providing discussion of conditions, strengths, issues, concerns, and opportunities, and identifying resources that are worthy of protection and preservation. The Comprehensive Plan contains policies for land use, circulation and community facilities which will serve as a guide for public and private decision-making to accomplish the goals and objectives, and thus the vision, for the Boroughs and the Townships. The appropriate location, amount, and pattern of development is established. Standards for developers to meet are identified. The Comprehensive Plan provides a basis for implementation techniques, such as land use ordinances, administrative actions, official maps and capital improvements programs, which will implement the policies contained in this plan. This Comprehensive Plan is a Living Document This Comprehensive Plan is just a start. It is the foundation for the attainment of the goals and objectives established within the plan, which can be accomplished only with the support of the municipal governments, municipal commissions, boards and committees, area businesses, area residents, and surrounding municipalities and regional planning groups. The objective has been to prepare a plan which will not sit on a shelf and gather dust, but a plan that will be implemented and used by municipal governing bodies, planning commissions and other groups within the municipalities to guide their actions in attaining the goals of this Plan. This Plan presents a strategy to guide municipal officials and other agencies in making decisions that will assure that the Northern Berks area will continue to be attractive places in which to live and work. This Comprehensive Plan is not an ordinance or regulation, but is a basis for proposing regulations and undertaking specific functional plans designed to implement the policies established within this plan. Implementation of the action plan is critical. 1-2 Need for Continuing Planning Planning is an ongoing process and this Comprehensive Plan must be continually reviewed in light of development trends, the state of the economy, unforeseen influences, availability of public infrastructure, changes in community goals, and the appropriateness of the Plan's objectives, policies, and implementation program. 1-3 CHAPTER 2 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GOALS AND OBJECTIVES VISION FOR THE NORTHERN BERKS REGION Northern Berks will remain an attractive and desirable community in which to live and work by preserving major features of the landscape, such as Blue Mountain, water courses and agricultural lands. This will assure the retention of rural character, open space, scenic areas, and wildlife habitats. Moderate residential growth will be managed and concentrated around existing centers where public sewer and water can be made available. Light industrial development will occur at designated locations near interchanges with Interstate 78. Agriculture will remain an important part of the regional economy and additional tourism will be promoted. Recreational opportunities in the Region will be enhanced and expanded. There will be increased cooperation among the municipalities in the provision of facilities and services for area residents. The cultural heritage of the community will be identified and made more accessible so the nature and history of Northern Berks will be an integral part of and blended with the future of the Region. GOALS AND OBJECTIVES This chapter of the Comprehensive
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