They voted to approve Resolution 21-7, which amends the SAPA Intergovernmental Cooperative Implementation Agreement. The supervisors voted to approve the updated zoning ordinance, but not before a few changes. “Around 2005 to recently, those 15 municipalities whittled down to nine (municipalities).” “That question evolved into 15 municipalities getting together,” he said. He mentioned that during the early 2000’s, Lee Jamison, who was a supervisor at the time, suggested to have some uses allowed in different municipalities instead of all of the municipalities having a shared zoning ordinance. He said that it went through amendments through the years. O’Neill said that South Abington Township created its zoning ordinance in 1985. The supervisors credited South Abington resident Len Gurney for his work with SAPA. He said that it also has 156 pages of verbage behind all of the uses. O’Neill said that instead of the zoning book having the sizes of the land, there is now a transact, which has all different uses involved by page. He said that the zoning ordinance has to be continuous, and that it is almost completely reflective of the old one. O’Neill stressed the fact that South Abington Township is in the middle of the other eight municipalities involved with SAPA. So we just say, as a partner with Dunmore, ‘you need to go to Dunmore and buy land there.’” I want to do a landfill, ” he said as an example, “We don’t have a landfill in our zoning but Dunmore does. “So if somebody wants to come to South Abington and say ‘I have land over here. He said that it allows zoning for each of the nine municipalities but each and every zoning use is allowed somewhere within the municipalities. SOUTH ABINGTON TOWNSHIP - At the South Abington Township supervisors meeting April 12, supervisor David O’Neill announced a comprehensive Scranton-Abingtons Planning Association zoning ordinance.
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