Committee Members
John DahDah, Chairman
Henry Shontz
Scott Newton
William Hewitt, Alternate
Errol Kring, Zoning Officer
Barry Kerchner, Solicitor
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The Zoning Hearing Board shall have the exclusive jurisdiction
to hear and render final adjudications in the following matters:
A. Appeals
and Challenges
- Substantive challenges to the validity of any land use
ordinance, except those brought before the Zoning Hearing Board pursuant to §§609.1
and 916.1(a)(2) of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.
- Challenges
to the validity of a land use ordinance raising procedural questions or alleged
defects in the process of enactment or adoption, which challenges shall be raised
by an appeal taken within thirty (30) days after effective date of said ordinance.
- Appeals
from the determination of the Zoning Officer, including, but not limited to,
the granting or denial of any permit, or failure to act on the application thereof,
or the issuance of any cease and desist order.
- Appeals from a determination by
the Township Engineer or the Zoning Officer with reference to the administration
of any floodplain or flood hazards ordinance or such provisions within a land
use ordinance.
- Appeals from the Zoning Officer’s determination under §1702
of Part 17 of the Zoning Ordinance.
- Appeals from the determination of the
Zoning Officer or Township Engineer in the administration of any land use ordinance
or provisions thereof with reference to sedimentation and erosion control and
storm water management insofar as the same relate to development not involving
subdivision and land development.
- Applications for variances from the terms
of Chapter 27 and flood hazard ordinances or such provisions within a land use
ordinance, pursuant to Subsection (C) of Section 1802 of the Zoning Ordinance.
B. Variances
To authorize, upon appeal in specific cases, such variance(s) from the terms
of Chapter 27 as will not be contrary to public interest, where a literal enforcement
of the provisions of Chapter 27 will result in unnecessary hardship. In
granting any variance, the Board may attach such reasonable conditions and safeguards
as it may deem necessary to implement the purposes of this Chapter and the Pennsylvania
Municipalities Code, as amended. The Board may, by rule, prescribe the
form of application and may require preliminary application to the Zoning Officer.
C. Special Exceptions
To hear and decide only such special exceptions to the terms of Chapter 27
upon which the Board, by the provisions of Chapter 27, is specifically authorized. |
