Natural Lands Trust: Land for Life by Ann Hutchinson, AICP, Senior Director, Municipal Conservation Services, Natural Lands Trust

4. 130 Acres

13. PA Municipalities Planning Code
Article VI– Zoning; Section
603(b)
“Zoning ordinances may permit,
prohibit, regulate, restrict and
determine…..
• Uses of land, watercourses
and other bodies of water
• Protection and preservation
of natural and historic
resources and prime
agricultural land and

18. Manage Impervious Cover

19. Manage Impervious Cover

20. Natural Features Overlay Districts

21. Natural Features Overlay Districts

22. Natural Features Overlay Districts

23. Natural Features Overlay Districts

24. Putting the Science to work!

25. Riparian Overlay Districts – Forests Clean
Streams

26. Contents:
• Purpose and Intent
• Definitions
• Applicability
• Riparian Buffer
Delineation
• Uses Permitted
• Buffer Restoration and
Planting Requirements
• Modifications to Riparian
Buffer Standards

27. Riparian Overlay Districts

28. Conservation Subdivision Design

29. Step I

32. www.schemmelrealestate.com

35. Reinventing the Commercial Strip
into
Mixed-Use Corridors and Nodes

37. Weatherstone, West Vincent Township

38. Weatherstone, West Vincent Township

44. The Upper Lehigh

45. The Upper Lehigh

46. The Upper Lehigh

48. Funding provided by