Dividing the Borough of Schuylkill Haven into districts and regulating the use of land and the location, use and density of buildings within these districts;

Providing for the administration, implementation and enforcement of this chapter;

Permitting, prohibiting, regulating 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 areas, courts, yards and other open spaces and distances to be left unoccupied by uses and structures;

Establishing the maximum density and intensity of development; and establishing provisions for special exceptions and variances to be administered by a Zoning Hearing Board.

If a court of competent jurisdiction declares any provisions of this chapter to be invalid or ineffective in whole or in part, the effect of such decision shall be limited to those provisions which are expressly stated in the decision to be invalid or ineffective, and all other provisions of this chapter shall continue to be separately and fully effective.

The Borough Council hereby declares that it would have passed this chapter and each section or part thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections or parts thereof be declared invalid.