Community development objectives.
This chapter is enacted for the following purposes:
A. To protect and promote the safety, health and general welfare of West Goshen residents by:
(1) Providing for a compatible balance of residential, commercial and industrial areas to assure coordinated and practical community development.
(2) Providing space and arrangements for supplying needed services such as fresh water, light, clean air, sanitary sewerage service, solid waste disposal facilities, stormwater drainage, as well as schools, parks, playgrounds and other public facilities.
(3) Providing for transportation and communication arteries, including streets, roads, highways, walkways and paths.
(4) Minimizing danger from fire, panic, disaster or other dangers.
(5) Preserving prime agricultural and farm land, considering topography, soil type and classification and present use.
B. To provide for development which will coordinate with other municipalities and which will enhance the living, working and shopping amenity by:
(1) Accommodating reasonable overall community growth, including population and employment growth, and opportunities for development of a variety of residential dwelling types and nonresidential uses and preventing excessive concentration of population.
(2) Directing the use of land and structures so as to minimize objectionable interference, noise and other unwanted interaction.
(3) Providing for the use of land within the Township for residential housing of various dwelling types encompassing all basic forms of housing, including single-family dwellings in various arrangements, mobile homes and mobile home parks.
(4) Determining the best location and arrangement for both facilities and arteries (streets, walkways, etc.), to provide the optimum combination of accessibility with personal privacy and freedom.
(5) Providing space and arrangements for parks, recreational areas, open space, landscaping and other aspects of visual amenity.
Zoning purposes.
This Zoning Ordinance has been prepared in accordance with the Township Comprehensive Plan, as amended, and with consideration for the character of the Township, its various parts and the suitability of the various parts for particular uses and structures, and is enacted for the following purposes:
A. To promote, protect and facilitate any or all of the following: the public health, safety, morals and the general welfare; coordinated and practical community development and proper density of population; emergency management preparedness and operations; airports and national defense facilities; the provisions of adequate light and air; access to incident solar energy; police protection; vehicle parking and loading space; transportation; water; sewerage; schools; recreational facilities and public grounds; the provision of safe, reliable and adequate water supply for domestic, commercial, agricultural or industrial use and other public requirements; as well as preservation of the natural scenic and historic values in the environment and preservation of forests, wetlands, aquifers and floodplains.
B. To prevent one or more of the following: overcrowding of land; blight; danger and congestion in travel and transportation; and loss of health, life or property from fire, flood, panic or other dangers.
Scope.
A. From and after the effective date of this chapter, the use of all land, including streets, and the use, height, area and yard requirements of every building or a portion of a building erected, altered with respect to height and area, added to or relocated, and every use within a building or use accessory thereto in West Goshen Township shall be in conformity with the provisions of this chapter. Any lawful existing building or structure and any lawful existing use of a building or land not in conformity with the regulations herein prescribed shall be regarded as nonconforming but may be continued, extended or changed subject to the special regulations herein provided with respect to nonconforming buildings or uses under
Article XV: Nonconforming Uses, Premises, Structures and Lots.
B. Every street located in the Township shall bear and be governed by the zoning classification of the zoning district, established in
§ 84-4: Establishment of districts of this article, in which it is located, and the use restrictions applicable to the various zoning districts shall apply to the use of the streets located within such zoning district.
