Sewer and water facilities: All cluster development shall be served by central water facilities and public sanitary sewers or other centralized facilities acceptable to the Board of Commissioners and subject to the approval of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection or its successor agency and the appropriate servicing authority.
Ownership: The tract of land to be developed shall be in one ownership or shall be the subject of an application filed jointly by owners of the entire tract and it shall be agreed that the tract will be developed under single direction in accordance with an approved plan.
Development plan: The application for development shall be accompanied by a plan or plans, showing the detailed use of the entire tract. The plan shall clearly designate the proposed use(s) and building and facility locations of each area of the tract.
Development stages and permits: The development of a tract carried out in either a single phase or in stages shall be executed in accordance with a development agreement. The owner, developer and Township shall enter into the agreement embodying all details regarding compliance with this section to assure the binding nature thereof for the overall tract and its development. The agreement shall be recorded with the final development plan.
Subdivision of tract: The subdivision of the tract into lots may occur only for financial purposes and not so as to permit individual lots to be treated as independent parcels for separate land development at a future time. Subdivision of the tract may occur only when deed restrictions are executed and recorded that maintain the lots as an integral part of the total tract land development.
See
§ 300-32: Cluster Development Overlay District for more information about this overlay district.