Codorus Township City Zoning Code
ARTICLE I
General Provisions
§ 250-1 Title.
An ordinance permitting, prohibiting, regulating, restricting, and determining the uses of land, watercourses, and other bodies of water: the size, height, bulk, location, erection, construction, repair, maintenance, alteration, razing, removal and use of structures; the areas and dimensions of land and bodies of water to be occupied by uses and structures as well as courts, yards, and other open spaces and distances to be left unoccupied by uses and structures; the density of population and intensity of use; the location and size of signs; creating zoning districts and establishing the boundaries thereof; creating the office of Zoning Officer; creating a Zoning Hearing Board; and providing for the administration, amendment, and enforcement of the ordinance, including the imposition of penalties.
§ 250-2 Short title.
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Codorus Township Zoning Ordinance."
§ 250-3 Purpose.
This chapter has been prepared in accordance with the Codorus Township Comprehensive Plan of 1973 with consideration for the character of the municipality, its various parts, and the suitability of the various parts for the particular uses and structures, and is enacted for the following purposes:
A.
To promote, protect, and facilitate one or more of the following: The public health, safety, morals, general welfare; coordinated and practical community development; proper density of population; civil defense, disaster evacuation, airports, and national defense facilities; the provisions of adequate light and air, police protection, vehicle parking and loading space, transportation, water, sewerage, schools, public grounds and other public requirements; as well as the preservation of quality agricultural lands, they being the Township's most important natural resource; and
B.
To prevent one or more of the following: overcrowding of land, blight, danger and congestion in travel and transportation, loss of health, life or property from fire, flood, panic or other dangers.
§ 250-4 Zoning Hearing Board.
In accordance with Article IX of Act 247 of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,[1] a Zoning Hearing Board is hereby created and shall have the number of members and such powers and authority as set forth in said Act and this chapter. The duly established Zoning Hearing Board may, from time to time, be herein referred to as the Board and unless otherwise clearly indicated, the term "Board" shall refer to such Zoning Hearing Board.
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Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 10901 et seq.
§ 250-5 Uses not provided for.
Any use not specifically permitted in any district of the four districts created by this chapter shall be allowed by special exception in the district or districts, where, and to the extent that similar uses are permitted or allowed, provided that said use meets the requirements for a special exception and does not constitute a public or private nuisance.
§ 250-6 County authority.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
The York County Planning Commission is empowered under Sections 304 and 607 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code (Act 247), 53 P.S. §§ 10304 and 10607, respectively, to submit its recommendations on the proposed adoption, amendment or repeal of any municipal zoning ordinance or part thereof. Proposals shall be submitted to the York County Planning Commission at least 45 days in advance of public hearing.