The new code could include some electric vehicle charging stations, sustainable development, and an emphasis on complete streets, such as eliminating those dead-end cul-de-sacs. Issues that are being considered in the rewriting of the code include greening, walkability, and other details that are used to ensure the township has the best and most attractive community to live in, Leswing said.Īmong the focuses of the changes are on the future and sustainability issues.

“We felt there are reasons to treat pools differently from a shed of a detached garage,” Duncan said.According to Leswing, projects that are excluded from the subdivision code include the conversion of a single-family home, an addition of an accessory building, or adding a swimming pool. Under the proposed change, the definition would go from “a structure designed for swimming and/or wading, constructed or installed either below or above ground and designed to contain or capable of containing water 24 inches or more in depth” to “a water filled enclosure, permanently constructed or portable, having a depth of more than 24 inches and designed, used and maintained for swimming and bathing.” One issue that’s about to be changed relates to swimming pools and how they are regulated.īob Duncan, assistant township manager, said among the changes was to alter the definition of a swimming pool because it was falling into similar category as an accessory structure such as a shed. Later this month, the board will hold a public hearing on the proposed changes that relate to swimming pools, fences and several other areas of the code. LOWER MERION - Less than a year after approving the complete rewriting of its zoning code, Lower Merion officials are about to make additional tweaks to the documents.

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