To meet the Borough's needs for housing by providing a variety of housing types, including single-family dwellings, various types of multifamily dwellings, including two-family dwellings and mobile homes and mobile home parks.

To encourage and direct reasonable commercial development in the areas zoned as commercial districts or recreational-commercial districts.

To guide uses of land and structures and the type and location of streets, public grounds and other facilities.

To protect the forested and cleared lands which attract people to the borough and are major community assets, by providing for development on smaller lots in the area in and around Eagles Mere village while encouraging a reasonable and more limited development in the areas of great natural beauty which comprise the balance of the borough.

To protect the borough's unique historical heritage.

To preserve environmentally sensitive areas, including woodlands, areas with steep slopes and lakes, streams and wet lands.

To provide for the general welfare by making provision for present and future governmental, social, cultural, recreational and religious facilities.

To protect the public interest by making provision for adequate light, air and spacing between buildings and vehicular parking and by regulating signs and lighting.

To facilitate and provide for water, sewage, public grounds and other similar public requirements.

To prevent overcrowding of land, blight, danger and congestion in travel and transportation and to limit risks to health and property from fire, panic or other dangers.

To accomplish these objectives through a coordinated development of the borough as described in § 105-1B in a manner which makes adequate provision for present and future housing and commercial needs while preserving those attributes of the borough which attract people to live, work or visit in the borough and surrounding areas.