Jim Thorpe City Zoning Code
ARTICLE II
Community Development Objectives and Comprehensive Plan
§ 500-8 General community development objectives.
This statement of the community development objectives is included under the authority of § 606 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code. The community development objectives include the following:
A.
To preserve, enhance and protect existing residential, commercial, industrial, public, and semipublic development from the intrusion of incompatible land uses.
B.
To preserve an open space and park system along streams.
C.
To maintain the current mix of housing types in the Borough including single-family, two-family, multifamily, and manufactured homes.
D.
To provide a variety of housing choices from low-density to high-density housing development.
E.
To protect the environment.
F.
To establish programs to promote the conservation, rehabilitation, and improvement of all parts of the Borough.
G.
To establish facilities and provide uses to serve all age groups of varying social, economic, ethnic, and racial characteristics.
§ 500-9 Comprehensive plan.
In addition to the General community development objectives set forth in § 500-8, this chapter is intended to implement the 2013 Middle Carbon County Comprehensive Plan, as may be amended, and any other plan which may be adopted by the Borough.