Verona, PA Zoning Ordinance

In addition to the general purposes and intent behind the adoption of this Zoning Ordinance, the following specific community development objectives identified as essential to orderly growth and change throughout the Borough have been considered as a basis upon which the regulations and controls of this chapter are derived:

Verona Borough is an older, already developed municipality containing a variety of activities with a minimum of detrimental intermixtures of uses.

In a community which had a seven-percent population reduction between 1960 and 1970, the major concerns relative to future change are maintenance of older housing, prevention of deterioration of residential neighborhoods, and encouragement of development opportunities to help stabilize the size of the population.

Since public utilities are available throughout the Borough, together with generally adequate community facilities, including neighborhood schools and playgrounds, these assets should be continually maintained to encourage private property maintenance and new development.

In certain areas a more dense pattern of residential development should occur through new apartment construction and conversion of older, larger one-family dwellings to two-family use.

The commercial area along Allegheny River Boulevard should be upgraded by provision of off-street parking, coordination of private improvements, and utilization for residential or office purposes of upper floors.

New growth in the industrial areas and residential areas near the river or streams draining to it should take account of periodic flooding.

Access to and development of riverfront land for public and private recreational use should be encouraged.

Development controls should help stabilize population change, should protect the residential areas from encroachment of downgrading influences, should influence revitalization of the commercial areas and should be uniformly and objectively enforced.