Borough Code & Ordinances
- Animals, Pets
- Auditor
- Borough Salaries & Compensation
- Brush, Grass, and Weeds
- Building Permits and Floodplain Management
- Burning, Outdoor
- Cable Television Franchise
- Construction in Flood-Prone Areas
- Curfew
- Demolition
- Fire Company
- General Provisions
- Intergovernmental Cooperation
- Local Government Investment Trust
- Nuisances
- One-Call System / Digging
- Outdoor Signs
- Parking
- Permits
- Planning Commission
- Property Maintenance
- Records / Right to Know - Borough
- Records / Right to Know - Pennsylvania
- Right to Know Request Form
- Sewers
- Solid Waste
- Stormwater Management
- Streets and Sidewalks
- Subdivision and Land Development
- Swimming Pools
- Taxation
- Vehicles, Abandoned
- Vehicles and Traffic
- Zoning Hearing Board
- Zoning Map
- Zoning Ordinance Amendment
- Zoning Ordinance
- Zoning Regulations
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.
