Thornbury Township City Zoning Code
ARTICLE 1
RE-ENACTMENT; PURPOSES; INTERPRETATION
§ 27-101 Reenactment of Prior Provisions.
[Ord. 2-1976, 2/3/1976, § 1]
Ordinance No. 20 of the Township of Thornbury as amended, is hereby amended, revised and reenacted to read as follows.
§ 27-102 Purposes.
[Ord. 2-1976, 2/3/1976, § 100]
1.
This chapter is enacted under and pursuant to the Municipalities Planning Code, Act 247 of 1968, 53 P.S. § 10101 et seq., as amended, for the following purposes:
A.
To promote, protect and facilitate the public health, safety, and general welfare of the inhabitants of the Township of Thornbury by coordinated and practical community development.
B.
By providing for proper density of population and assuring adequate light and air; and facilitating the adequate provision of transportation, police protection, water, sewerage, schools, parks, public grounds.
C.
To prevent overcrowding of land, blight, danger, and congestion in travel, transportation, loss of health, life or property from fire, flood, panic or other damage.
2.
The regulations and districts contained herein represent reasonable consideration as to the character of the districts and their peculiar suitability for particular uses of land and have been made with a view to enhancing the existing environment and assuring the development of a future environment that realizes the greatest possible use and enjoyment of land on individual properties, balanced against the necessary protection of the values of buildings and land and the use and enjoyment of land on adjacent properties, with the objective of promoting and protecting the public welfare through the regulation of land use and the process of land development.
§ 27-103 Interpretation.
[Ord. 2-1976, 2/3/1976, § 101]
In the interpretation and application of the provisions of this chapter, the said provisions shall be held to be the minimum requirements for the promotion and protection of the public health, welfare, and safety. Except as to regulation of development under the Thornbury Township Planned Residential Development Ordinance of 1973 [Article 26], where the provisions of this chapter impose greater restrictions than those of any other ordinance or regulation, the provisions of this chapter shall be controlling. Where the provisions of any statute, other ordinance or regulation impose greater restrictions than this chapter, the provisions of such statute, ordinance or regulation shall be controlling.
§ 27-104 Short Title.
[Ord. 2-1976, 2/3/1976, § 102]
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Thornbury Township Zoning Ordinance of 1976."