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North Versailles Township
City Zoning Code

ARTICLE II

Purpose and Community Development Objectives

§ 300-200 Purpose.

A. 
The purpose of this chapter is to establish zoning districts for the Township of North Versailles.

§ 300-201 Overall community development objectives.

The overall community development objectives are to:
A. 
Encourage infill housing at a scale and manner appropriate to surrounding and predominately single-family neighborhoods.
B. 
Prevent blight, while preventing overcrowding.
C. 
Encourage the preservation of open space throughout the Planning Area through the preservation of wooded hillsides and interconnected common open space.
D. 
Protect the Planning Area's natural resources, including steeply sloped and wooded areas.
E. 
Provide for and encourage reasonable community growth, to include a broad and adequate range of permitted uses based, in part, on the findings of the Multi-Municipal Comprehensive Plan, and redevelopment of existing neighborhoods while protecting the Planning Area's natural resources and fostering the stability of existing development within the Planning Area.
F. 
Encourage efficient pedestrian, as well as vehicular, circulation.

§ 300-202 Individual community development objectives.

A. 
The following constitute the objective of the municipality within the Planning Area and expressly recognize the general objectives cited in § 300-201.
B. 
North Versailles Township.
(1) 
Encourage large-scale development and redevelopment of blighted and vacant land near main arterials in a manner that encourages stable growth of needed industries, thereby providing such uses that are defined by a larger scale at those areas of the Planning Area (typically lying within the Township) where they may be accommodated.
(2) 
Create specific community character through the development of unique and creative residential plans, including planned residential development, while buffering such developments from adjacent existing and traditional neighborhoods within the boroughs or creating traditional neighborhood development integrated therewith.