Gardenia Plan At Stone Mill Ests, Penn Township, PA 17020

Agriculture/Rural District

This district is composed of those areas in the Township whose predominant land use is agriculture and scattered low density residential. These regulations are designed to protect and stabilize the areas' essential agricultural characteristics, and limit development that requires highways and other public services and facilities in excess of those required by agricultural and low density residential uses. All lands within the Agriculture/Rural District are located within an area where land is used for agricultural production. Owners, residents and other users of property in this district may be subject to some common characteristics of agriculture which are sometimes regarded as objectionable, including but not limited to odor, dust, night, holiday, early morning and weekend operations, noise, use of roads by slow and oversized agricultural equipment, the storage and disposal of manure, the application of fertilizers, herbicides, etc. Residents, owners, and users of property in this district should accept these factors as normal and unavoidable characteristics of an agricultural area and are hereby put on official notice that Section 4 of the Pennsylvania Act 133 of 1982, referred to as The Right to Farm Law, may bar them from obtaining a legal judgment against such normal agricultural operations.