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, 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; creating zoning districts and establishing the boundaries thereof; authorizing the appointment of a Zoning Officer; creating a zoning hearing board; and providing for the administration, amendment, and enforcement of the ordinance, including the imposition of penalties.

Short title. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Dalton Borough Zoning Ordinance."

To promote, protect and facilitate one or more of the following: the public health, safety, morals, general welfare; coordinated and practical community development; density of population; civil defense and disaster evacuation, airports, and national defense facilities; the provisions of adequate light and air; police protection; vehicle parking and loading space; transportation; historic resources; natural resources, agricultural land and uses; the safe use of natural or artificial bodies of water, boat docks and related facilities; reliable, safe and adequate water supplies; safe and adequate sewerage disposal, schools, public grounds and other public requirements and other purposes set forth in the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.[1]

To prevent one or more of the following: overcrowding of land, watercourses and other bodies of water; blight; danger and congestion in travel and transportation; loss of health, life or property from fire, flood, panic or other dangers.

To preserve prime agriculture and farmland considering topography, soil type and classification, and present use.

To provide for the use of land within the municipality for residential housing of various dwelling types encompassing all basic forms of housing, including single-family and two-family dwellings, and a reasonable range of multifamily dwellings in various arrangements, mobile homes and mobile home parks; provided, however, that no zoning ordinance shall be deemed invalid for the failure to provide for any other specific dwelling type.

To accommodate reasonable overall community growth, including population and employment growth and opportunities for development of a variety of residential dwelling types and nonresidential uses.