879 Smithbridge Rd, Glen Mills, PA 19342

Residence-Planned Active Adult Community District

To recognize the need for rational direction for increasing land development and to meet the growing need for housing of all types, while at the same time to minimize the loss of open countryside, to preserve the atmosphere of the Township, to forestall inadequacies in community services and facilities and to protect property values in existing residential areas.; To encourage innovations in residential development and renewal so that the growing demand for housing may be met by greater variety in type, design and layout of dwellings and by conservation and more efficient use of open space ancillary to said dwellings.; To provide greater opportunities for better housing and recreation for all who are or will be residents of the Township, including a planned adult community for active adult citizens that is in keeping with the residential character of the Township with concern for dwelling design and open space conservation and attractiveness.; To encourage a more efficient use of land and public services and to reflect changes in the technology of land development so that the economies so secured may enure to the benefit of those who need homes.; To encourage more flexible land development which will respect and conserve natural resources such as streams, lakes, floodplains, groundwater, wooded areas, steeply sloped areas and areas of unusual beauty or importance to the natural ecosystem.; In aid of these purposes, to provide a procedure which can relate the type, design and layout of residential development to the particular site and the particular demand for housing existing at the time of development in a manner consistent with the preservation of the property values within existing residential areas, and to assure that the increased flexibility of regulations over land development established hereby is carried out pursuant to sound, expeditious and fair administrative standards and procedures and to design the above-mentioned procedure so that it permits higher densities in the areas recognized in the Comprehensive Plan as most capable of receiving and supporting such densities.