Borough Code & Ordinances
- Preface
- Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 - General Provisions
- Chapter 5 - Auditor
- Chapter 11 - Fire Company
- Chapter 14 - Intergovernmental Cooperation
- Chapter 22 - Local Government Investment Trust
- Chapter 25 - Officers and Employees
- Chapter 27 - Planning Commission
- Chapter 30 - Records
- Chapter 33 - Salaries
- Chapter 39 - Animals
- Chapter 44 - Brush, Grass and Weeds
- Chapter 48 - Building Permits and Floodplain Mgmt.
- Chapter 53 - Burning, Outdoor
- Chapter 55 - Cable television Franchise
- Chapter 57 - Claims, Municipal
- Chapter 62 - Curfew
- Chapter 65 - Flood-Prone Areas, Construcrion in
- Chapter 75 - Nuisances
- Chapter 77 - One-Call System
- Chapter 80 - Property Maintenance
- Chapter 90 - Sewer
- Chapter 96 - Solid Waste
- Chapter 101 - Stormwater Management
- Chapter 105 - Streets and Sidewalks
- Chapter 108 - Subdivision and Land Development
- Chapter 112 - Taxation
- Chapter 118 - Vehicles, Abandoned
- Chapter 123 - Vehicles and Traffic
- Chapter 130 - Zoning
- Zoning Map
Fee Schedule
What's the Difference?
Zoning Codes vs. Building Codes
What is a Zoning Code?
What is a Zoning Code?
Municipalities use zoning codes to separate land under their jurisdictions into zones of allowable development. In some cases, a municipality will publish a zoning map.
Essentially, zoning laws determine which types of properties can coexist in different areas of the city.
What is a Building Code?
What is a Building Code?
Generally, the building code applies to dimensional standards and best practices for the construction phase of a project.
Refer to this body of information during the application process to become familiar with the criteria against which your plans will be evaluated.
Zoning codes are land use regulations that define what is allowed to be built and where it can be built.
Municipalities use zoning codes to separate land under their jurisdictions into zones of allowable development. In some cases, a municipality will publish a zoning map.
Essentially, zoning laws determine which types of properties can coexist in different areas of the city.
Unlike the Zoning Code, which applies different rules to different types of properties, the Building Code applies to all properties equally.
Generally, the building code applies to dimensional standards and best practices for the construction phase of a project.
Refer to this body of information during the application process to become familiar with the criteria against which your plans will be evaluated.
